Hey Greenie global warming frenzy people, today is June 19, Sylvia Olden Lee day in NYC. At Carnegie Hall tonight, this is the big event at 7:30 pm... and check out below the music symposium tomorrow.
Join the party .... green or whatever you want it to be.
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Today, Thursday, June 29, 2017, on the occasion of Sylvia Olden Lee's 100th birthday, the Foundation for the Revival of Classical Culture, www.fftrocc.org, will celebrate Mrs. Lee's life and achievements at Carnegie Hall with African American spirituals; Verdi and Donizetti arias; songs by Mozart, Brahms, and Roland Hayes; and choral music, including Beethoven's "Christ on the Mount of Olives", and Roland Carter's arrangement of "Lift Every Voice and Sing". A proclamation will be formally presented during the concert, in which New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio declares June 29th to be "Sylvia Olden Lee Day". This event is also organized in collaboration with the Harlem Opera Theater and the Schiller Institute.
The performance will be followed by a symposium the following day, June 30th, at the Bruno Walter Auditorium of Lincoln Center. The symposium is entitled: "Calling All Teachers and Other Lovers of Wisdom -- The Aesthetic Education of Humanity Through Music".
At tonight's concert, we expect many members of the audience to be students, teachers, and their families. The Foundation wants to further Sylvia's life-long endeavor - S.Y.L.V.I.A. (Saving Young Lyric Voices in Advance). This is a program named after Sylvia's mother, soprano Sylvia Olden, which entails a comprehensive approach to the teaching of voice-training in the school system through high school age, and the maintenance and development of the vocal capabilities of professional singers. Mrs. Lee, who died in 2004, was involved in the last decade-and-a-half of her life in a non-stop crusade to re-popularize Classical musical performance and education among all youth.
S.Y.L.V.I.A.: Saving Young Lyric Voices In Advance is actually indispensable to education, and to the resurrection -- the "revival" -- of the practice of non-violence. It should be the inspiration for a resurgence in the performance of the classical musical repertoire, including the African-American spiritual, by "ordinary people". Instruction in bel canto voice training and voice placement should be made available in educational institutions throughout the United States.
Mrs. Lee's wide impact over sixty years of teaching and performance is indicated by the list of prominent musicians that are traveling to New York to perform in this centennial concert. They include: Simon Estes, Gregory Hopkins, Osceola Davis, Rosa D'Imperio, Elvira Green, Everett Suttle, Roland Carter, Robert Sims, Kevin Short, Frank Mathis, Richard Alston, Jeremy Jordan, Patricia Eaton, David Antony Lofton, Sheila Harris Jackson, Indira Mahajan. and the "Sylvia Olden Lee Centennial Chorus", which includes members of the Schiller Institute NY, Boston and Virginia choruses, and the Convent Avenue Baptist Church Sanctuary Choir. Tributes to Sylvia Olden Lee have been pouring in to the concert organizing committee for release on June 29th, including statements from dramatic soprano Jessye Norman, operatic tenor George Shirley, and musician and godson Bobby McFerrin.
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Purchase your tickets for this historic concert at the Carnegie Hall Box Office, or call 718-709-8722 for help in seating and possible discounts.
The concert will begin at 7:30 sharp, and will continue until 10 pm, with one intermission. It will take place in the Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage of Carnegie Hall, which is on W. 57th Street, between 6th and 7th Avenues.
There will be no video posting of this concert! You will have to be there to fully experience this marvelous and unrepeatable event.
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Foundation for the Revival of Classical Culture | lynn@fftrocc.org| www.fftrocc.org |
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WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU THERE!
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