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Tribute to Sylvia Olden Lee:
Master Musician and Teacher

June 2017

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Symposium: Concluding Event of Two Day Tribute to Sylvia Olden Lee 6/30/2017 NYC

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Sylvia Olden Lee Day, June 29, 2017
Proclaimed in New York City

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Program

Thursday Evening, June 29, 2017, at 7:30
Isaac Stern Auditorium / Ronald 0. Perelman Stage

FOUNDATION FOR THE REVIVAL OF CLASSICAL CULTURE

presents

Tribute to Sylvia Olden Lee
Master Musician and Teacher

arr. Sylvia Olden Lee

Lord, How Come Me Here

ELVIRA GREEN, Mezzo-soprano

 

Traditional Spiritual

A City Called Heaven

SHEILA HARRIS JACKSON, Soprano

 

arr. Hall Johnson

Lord, I Don't Feel No-ways Tired

SYLVIA OLDEN LEE CENTENNIAL CHORUS*
GREGORY HOPKINS, Tenor
DIANE SARE, Director

 

Welcoming Remarks
Dennis Speed, Schiller Institute NY-NJ

Sylvia Speaks
Audio recording: Pay Attention to the Words!

 

Traditional Spiritual

Go Down, Moses

PATRICE P. EATON, Mezzo-soprano
KEVIN SHORT, Bass-baritone

 

arr. William L. Dawson

Soon Ah Will Be Done

SYLVIA OLDEN LEE CENTENNIAL CHORUS*
DIANE SARE, Director

 

arr. Hall Johnson

Lord, I Don't Feel No-ways Tired

SYLVIA OLDEN LEE CENTENNIAL CHORUS*
GREGORY HOPKINS, Tenor
DIANE SARE, Director

 

Remarks by Elizabeth Nash, co-author of The Memoirs of Sylvia Olden Lee,
Premier African-American Classical Vocal Coach

Remarks by Elvira Green, student, colleague, and friend of Ms. Lee


GIUSEPPE VERDI

Ritorna vincitor! from Aida

INDIRA MAHAJAN, Soprano
DAVID ANTONY LOFTON, Piano

 

GIUSEPPE VERDI

Ella giammai m'amà from Don Carlo

SIMON ESTES, Bass-baritone
DAVID ANTONY LOFTON, Piano

 

GIUSEPPE VERDI

Ii Grand'Inquisitor! Nell'ispano suol mai l'eresia dominà
duet from Don Carlo

SIMON ESTES, Bass-baritone
KEVIN SHORT, Bass-baritone
DAVID ANTONY LOFTON, Piano

 

GIUSEPPE VERDI

Toi qui sus le néant from Don Carlos

ROSA D'IMPERIO, Soprano
DAVID ANTONY LOFTON, Piano

 

GIUSEPPE VERDI

Dio, che nell'alma infondere
duet from Don Carlo

EVERETT SUTTLE, Tenor
FRANK MATHIS, Baritone
DAVID ANTONY LOFTON, Piano

 

GAETANO DONIZETTI

Chi mi frena in tal momento?
sextet from Lucia di Lammermoor

OSCEOLA DAVIS, Soprano
PATRICE P. EATON, Mezzo-soprano
GREGORY HOPKINS, Tenor
EVERETT SUTTLE, Tenor
FRANK MATHIS, Baritone
KEVIN SHORT, Bass-baritone
DAVID ANTONY LOFTON, Piano

 

Intermission

 

FRANZ SCHUBERT
Words by William
Shakespeare

Who Is Sylvia?

ROBERT SIMS, Baritone
JEREMY JORDAN, Piano

 

FRANZ SCHUBERT

Impromptu, Op. 90, No. 3 in G-flat major

JEREMY JORDAN, Piano

 

JOHANNES BRAHMS

Vier ernste Gesänge, No. 4: Wenn ich mit Menschen- und mit Engelszungen

KEVIN SHORT, Bass-baritone
DAVID ANTONY LOFTON, Piano

 

arr. Jacqueline Hairston

Guide My Feet

OSCEOLA DAVIS, Soprano
GREGORY HOPKINS, Piano

 

Remarks by Lynn J. Yen, founder and executive director of the
Foundation for the Revival of Classical Culture

Remarks by Eve Lee and Everett Lee, Sr.

 

ROLAND HAYES

Five songs from The Life of Christ
   Prepare Me One Body
   Lit'l Boy
   They Led My Lord Away
   He Never Said a Mumberlin'
   Word Were You There?

EVERETT SUTTLE, Tenor
FRANK MATHIS, Baritone
GREGORY HOPKINS, Piano

 

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN

"Hallelujah" chorus
from Christ on the Mount of Olives, Op. 85

SYLVIA OLDEN LEE CENTENNIAL CHORUS*
RICHARD ALSTON, Piano
JOHN SIGERSON, Director

 

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART

Ave verum corpus, K.618

SYLVIA OLDEN LEE CENTENNIAL CHORUS*
RICHARD ALSTON, Piano
JOHN SIGERSON, Director

 

Words by James Weldon Johnson
Music by J. Rosamond Johnson
arr. by Roland Carter

Finale: Lift Every Voice and Sing!

SOLOISTS WITH SYLVIA OLDEN LEE CENTENNIAL CHORUS*
RICHARD ALSTON, Piano
ROLAND CARTER, Director

 

*The following choral groups are participating:
Schiller Institute NYC Chorus
Convent Avenue Baptist Church Sanctuary Choir
Schiller Institute Boston Chorus
Schiller Institute Virginia Chorus

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