Category Cultural renaissance updates

Updates relating to the creation of a classical cultural renaissance

General, Helga statement, article, transcript, Music updates

Open Letter to Germany’s Classical Music Lovers in the Year of Beethoven: The Bounds of Decency Have Been Breached

by Helga Zepp-LaRouche, Chairwoman of the Schiller Institute The first thing one can say about the performance of Beethoven’s Fidelio at the Darmstadt Theater, in a production of Paul-Georg Dittrich with a musical adaptation of the finale by Annette Schlünz, is: It’s…

Jason Ross
January 21, 2020

General, Music updates, Northern Virginia SI activity, Our musical events

Virginia Schiller Chorus Draws Its Largest Crowd New Year’s Day

On Wednesday, January 1, 2020, the Virginia Schiller Institute Community Chorus and friends, hosted their largest ever New Year’s Concert featuring timeless choral pieces from Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Brahms, Verdi, and Dvorak. Our concerts are becoming a growing institution in the…

Jason Ross
January 5, 2020

Houston SI activity, Music updates, Our cultural events, Our musical events

Lift Every Voice: Towards a Renaissance of Classical Culture

On Friday, January 25, the Schiller Institute Houston Community Chorus invited members of the community to celebrate the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at an event in southwest Houston. Texas Schiller Institute spokesman Brian Lantz opened the event highlighting the shifts…

Jason Ross
January 30, 2019

Music updates, Northern Virginia SI activity, Our musical events

Virginia Schiller Institute Chorus Rings in the New Year

On January 1st, the Virginia Schiller Institute Community Chorus continued its tradition of ringing in the New Year with a concert of Classical music in Leesburg, VA. Megan Beets, director of the chorus, opened the concert quoting Friedrich Schiller, “Live…

Jason Ross
January 10, 2019

Cultural renaissance updates, Helga statement, article, transcript, New York City SI activity, Our cultural events

Schiller Institute Participates in Alexandrov Choir Commemoration

On January 3rd, 2019, for the third year in a row, a memorial was held in Bayonne, New Jersey for the victims of the December 25th, 2016 plane crash which took the lives of the many members of Russia’s famous…

Jason Ross
January 4, 2019

Cultural renaissance updates, New York City SI activity, Our musical events

Friedrich Schiller Birthday Celebration Concert

On November 18, 2018, the Schiller Institute NYC Chorus performed a concert at St. Bartholomew’s Church in New York City in celebration of Friedrich Schiller’s birthday. The concert included performances of Bach, Brahms, spirituals, Beethoven’s Choral Fantasia, Op. 80, and…

David Dobrodt
December 19, 2018

Boston SI activity, Music updates, Our musical events

Sylvia Olden Lee – A Musical Tribute To A Beautiful Soul.

The Schiller Boston Chorus hosted a centennial celebration concert honoring master musician and teacher, Sylvia Olden Lee. We also marked the birthdays of patriots President’s John F. Kennedy (100th) and John Quincy Adams (250th) in this concert of African-American Spirituals, Verdi,…

Malene Robinson
October 20, 2018

Cultural renaissance updates, General, Germany SI activity, Our cultural events

“A Dialogue of Cultures along the New Silk Road” held in Dresden, Germany

On April 21st, the Schiller Institute organized a cultural event in Dresden under the title “A Dialogue of Cultures along the New Silk Road,” with 150 attendees. Lasting peace, stability and shared well-being should, of course, be at the heart…

Jason Ross
April 23, 2018

Cultural renaissance updates, Denmark SI activity, Our musical events

Schiller Institute Concert in Denmark: Musical Dialogue of Cultures

[tabs titles=”Synopsis, Performers/Contributors”] [tab] They came from around the world. They came bearing gifts. Not gifts you could touch with your hands. But gifts that touched your soul. Gifts of beautiful music, and beautiful dance. And the people came to…

Motoki Kasai
February 27, 2017

Cultural renaissance updates, New York City SI activity, Our conferences, World Land-Bridge updates

The Win-Win Solution: One Belt, One Road

Special Guest Speakers: Helga Zepp-LaRouche, Founder and Chairwoman of the Schiller Institute (via live video hookup); Dr. Patrick Ho, Chairman, China Energy Fund Committee; Former Secretary for Home Affairs of the Government of Hong Kong Segment 1 Dennis Speed…

Motoki Kasai
February 4, 2017