FFRCC Classical Music gets National Review Attention

Good fame is pretty good, but often we settle even for some bad fame... but this National Review article about the FFRCC (Foundation for the Revival of Classical Culture Review) is pretty good. The season is almost over at Foundation for the Revival of Classical Culture but check out this review of our concert of June 2nd.... in NYC. Don't worry, we will do it again in late September. A great National Review- review for baritone Frank Mathis, and pianist Jon DePeri, and don't forget the FFRCC Youth chorus performed too. And we also have the FFRCC summer camp coming up in lower Manhattan NYC... so if you have kids 11 years old plus, who can get into some choral singing- science and drama... sign up.

St John's in the Village, and also St Veronica's too NYC

Concert Oct 14, at St JOhns in the Village... Schiller INst NYC Chorus.... 10 Afro Amer spirituals.... more at www.ffrcc.org 

and St Veronicas too on Sat Nov 3 at 7 pm

ESCRIPTION

The Music at St Veronica's season is back in full swing! Join us for an incredible night of music performed by a full orchestra conducted by Benjamin Grow.

As music director of Tom Cipullo's acclaimed opera Glory Denied in Philadelphia, Grow was said to have "expertly coached the singers and led the orchestra" (Broad Street Review), and his "fine detailing delivered the ferocious power of this score" (Huffington Post), in what The Philadelphia Inquirer said was the "most unforgettable opera" of the year.

The Program:

Sense of Place

Felix Mendelssohn- The Hebrides (Fingal's Cave) Overture

— Intermission—

Antonin Dvorak- Czech Suite

Felix Mendelssohn- Symphony No. 4 "Italian"

History of the Concert Series:

The Church of St. Veronica, a 130 year-old Catholic church on Christopher Street, closed in July of 2017 due to low-attendance at Sunday masses. When WestView News publisher George Capsis received a letter from one of his readers informing him of the fact, he knew something had to be done.

Rather than see the church closing as another casualty of the rapidly "disappearing Village", Capsis believed that this was an opportunity to bring the community together. The West Village is a highly desirable area in New York city because of its small-town neighborhood feel (hence "The Village") in one of the biggest metropoles in the world. That neighborhood feel, however, is at risk as property values skyrocket and condominiums come to replace the iconic brownstones. Most troubling to Capsis, a nonagenarian himself, was seeing his fellow senior citizens (who have remained in the West Village thanks to rent-stabilized apartments) excluded from enjoying the community they built. For that reason, WestView News has been hosting classical music concerts at the Church of St. Veronica since November of 2017. This next concert will the first concert of the new season and we look forward to seeing our neighbors there, young, old and everyone in-between.

Summer Camp with Classical Chorus and Astrolabes

See if you can make the scene, and go to www.ffrcc.org to sign up please... Cmon Harlem dudes... yes, it's in Greenwich village, but you can get on the 1 train to 14th Street and make the scene.  Time for your teenager to have summer camp in the city from August 6 to 17.

Grave Doubt Harlem and Bronx Dudes

Harlem and Bronx NY dudes, there is a doubt if civilization can survive. You cannot trust yourself. It is the impulse of degeneration, Harlem dudes. Not just the thieving banks. Look at music, classical music. Do you fight for Furtwangler, for Beethoven to be performed properly? This Harlem and Bronx NY hip hop is degenerate beyond belief.