He also became increasingly vocal against U.S. involvement in Vietnam and delivered a strong antiwar speech at RiversideChurch in New York on April 4, 1967.
Sitting at a table on a busy mezzanine inside of Manhattan's RiversideChurch, one of the orchestra's rehearsal spaces, violinist Ronnie Bauch and cellist Melissa Meell look back at the evolution of the Orpheus Method, the egalitarian organizational principle at the heart of the orchestra.