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Showing posts with label nyc. Show all posts
Thursday, April 19, 2018
Foundation has Music, Art, Science Summer Camp NYC
Music, art, science... you dig?? More importantly, does your kid, age 12-19 or so dig? This could be the big one.... see www.ffrcc.org These are some really smart kids from the last 2 years of the camp... run by the Foundation for the Revival of Classical Culture.
Saturday, March 31, 2018
Come to the MLK concert April 9 in NYC
#mlk #mlk50 http://ffrcc.org come to the event Apr 9 at St Barts Martin Luther KING memorial and commemmoration
Come to my event in NEW YORK to Commemorating MLK at St Barts April 9 music and speeches
Wednesday, December 13, 2017
Who is Going to my Brooklyn Dec 16 Xmas Concert?
Hi are you going to my Brooklyn NY, December 16 @6 pm Christmas concert?? If not, you should. The Foundation for the Revival of Classical Culture will present A Christmas Concert on Saturday, December 16, 2017(Beethoven's 247th Birthday!) at 6 pm, at the Co-Cathedral of St. Joseph in Brooklyn, 856 Pacific Street, Brooklyn, NY. The concert will feature the Schiller Institute NYC Chorus, together with guest soloists. Selections from Beethoven's "Mass in C Major" will be performed, together with selections from the Christmas section of Handel's Messiah, and Christmas Spirituals. The concert will be performed at the Verdi proper tuning of C=256 Hz. Celebrate Christmas with great music.
General admission is $20; children (under 18) admission is $10. Family and group rates are available. For tickets and more information, call 718-709-8722 or visit: http://ffrcc.org.
Tuesday, December 12, 2017
Go to My Christmas Concert
Time to go to a great Christmas Concert on Sat. Dec 16, at 6 pm till 8 pm. Beethoven's Mass in C Major, Handel's Messiah, excerpts, spirituals https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-christmas-concert-tickets-39528000313 at the Brooklyn Co-Cathedral, 856 Pacific Street, NY 11238. Singing is the Schiller Institute NYC Chorus with 4 soloists.
Friday, December 8, 2017
NY Designs CNC
Today at 9:50 AM
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Wednesday, November 29, 2017
Hunter College Food Policy
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Sunday, August 27, 2017
Columbus statue, and the discovery of America
No, we are not surrendering the Columbus statue in NYC or anywhere. Harlem dudes knowl the story of the Renaissance and the discovery of America.
Columbus and Toscanelli by Ricardo Olvera
One of the most controversial matters relating to the discovery of the Americas relates to the Italian Renaissance. In the scientific seminars held during the Council of Florence, Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli presented his idea of the project. Based upon the scientific information brought by cosmographers, geographers, and experts in the science of navigation gathered there together, the general lines were traced of what would, fifty-three years later, become the "greatest event after Creation," according to one Spanish author-- the discovery of the New World.
The direct connection between the Italian Renaissance and the Spanish exploit is established by the correspondence between Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli and Christopher Columbus. In Toscanelli's letter to Columbus in 1480, and in the ones written by him six years before to Fernao Martins, agent of the Portuguese King Alfonso V, the Florentine scholar urged the Iberian powers-Portugal and Spain-to realize the transatlantic project discussed in Florence, and he laid out for them the map and the scientific information required for its success (SEE Map I). As Fernando Columbus, Christopher's son, reports in his Life of the Admiral, the basis upon which his father founded his project was as follows: A Master Paolo, physician of Master Domenico, a Florentine contemporary to the same Admiral, was the cause in great measure of his undertaking this This article, translated by Rick Sanders, has been excerpted and adapted from "The Discovery of the Americas and the Great Scientific Project of the Renaissance, " which appeared in the Spanish -language magazine Benengeli, Vol. 2, No. 1 (1987). voyage with greater spirit. The fact that the cited Paolo was a friend of Fernao Martins, canon of Lisbon, and that the two were writing letters to each other about the sea voyages made to the country of Guinea during the time of King Alfonso of Portugal, and about what could be done in the westward direction, came to the ears of the Admiral who was most curious about these things. And he hastened to write, by way of one Lorenzo Girardi, a Florentine who was in Lisbon, to the said Master Paolo, about this, and sent to him an armillary sphere, revealing to him his intent. Master Paolo sent him a reply in Latin ....
Later Fernando Columbus transcribes the first letter from Toscanelli to Christopher Columbus: To Christopher Columbus, Paolo, physician, greetIllgs. I see this magnificent and grand desire of yours to see how to get to [the regions] where spices are born, and in reply to your letter I send you a copy of another letter which I wrote some time ago to a friend and familiar of the most serene King of Portugal, before the Castillian war, in reply to another letter which by commision of his Highness was written to me about the said matter; and I send you another such map of sailing, as the one I wrote to him, through which your questions will be satisfied. Toscanelli affixed to the bottom of his letter to Columbus, a copy of the letter which he had sent earlier to Fernao Martins, the canon who operated as an intermediary between the republican networks of Florence, and those republicans who were trying to convince the King of Portugal to put the navigational capacity of that country in the service of this great project. This letter had been directed at awakening the commercial interest of the powerful, painting with vivid colors the fantastic riches of the Far East; and attached to it was the carta de marear or "navigational map," which Columbus never let out of his sight for even a moment, during his first voyage. Did Toscanelli believe that following his navigational plan, the coasts that one would see rise on the horizon would be those of the Orient? Or did he perhaps expect those of a new continent?
One fact makes us suspect the latter: the distance at which Columbus encountered America, and likewise the principal geographic and nautical characteristics of the route, were precisely those of Toscanelli's navigational map. Instead of fantastic palaces covered in gold and the refined civilization of the Orient, Columbus encountered an almost savage continent, in which everything still needed to be done. The prevailing mentality of the courts of Europe at the time, would have made it very difficult to find support for a project involving so much nature and so little art. Either way, Toscanelli and the strategists of the Renaissance succeeded in their plan to mobilize the maritime-commercial powers to an enterprise which the "experts" of the age considered "not income-producing" (just as today, the cost-accountants consider the project of colonizing the Moon and Mars as not "income producing"), and such experts notwithstanding, there was opened up for humanity the most formidable period of development of which we have memory. Are Toscanelli's Letters Genuine? At the Congress of Americanists held in Paris in 1 900, Henry Vignaud, then First Secretary of the American Embassy in France, denied for the first time the authenticity of the famous correspondence between Toscanelli, Martins, and Columbus, in a document which was immediately widely diffused through the press of the day. Over the years since 1 900, the vital and previously wellknown link of Columbus to Toscanelli-and thus, to the Council of Florence-was hidden, and ultimately, forgotten. In essence, Vignaud said that the discovery of the Americas was not the result of any scientific project, but rather of chance. According to Vignaud, Columbus never had any intention of reaching Asia, let alone the New World, but only of reaching one of the islands located west of the Canaries. If by chance Columbus did have any scientific theory, he would not have gotten this from Toscanelli, nor from any of the cosmographers of the Renaissance, but from Ptolemy, Aristotle, and other "authorities" of medieval geography and cosmography. Vignaud based this on his "demonstration" that the 38 letters ofToscanelli to Christopher Columbus, and above all from Toscanelli to Fernao Martins, were apocryphal. In refuting this assertion, the historian Clement Markham argued that [fJew documents of this period are so well certified [as this letter]. Las Casas, an absolutely trustworthy and honest historian, not only furnishes us with a Spanish translation, but informs us that one part of the original, it seems, the navigational map adjoined, was in fact in his possession at the moment of writing. In the Life of the Admiral, by Fernando Columbus, MAP 1. Reconstruction of Toscanelli's map sent to Columbus in 1480. there is included an Italian translation. And one copy of the original version in Latin was found in the Columbus Library in Seville in 1 860, in the frontispiece of a book by Pius II which had belonged to Christopher Columbus, written in the Admiral's own hand. I In a reply to Markham, Vignaud attempted to bolster his claim by arguing that Fernao Martins never existed, and that he was a mere invention, created to explain the inexplicable: the tie between Columbus and Toscanelli-which was impossible according to Vignaud, because Columbus was never in Florence, and Toscanelli never left Italy. , Did Fernao Martins Exist? Ironically, by questioning the existence of Fernao Martins, Vignaud actually helps us to highlight the point of conception of the Renaissance exploration project. For in the work of Cardinal Nicolaus of Cusa entitled Tetralogus de Non Aliud (Tetralogue on the Not-Other), there unfolds a Socratic dialogue between "Nicolaus" and three interlocutors, of whom the main one is Ferdinando Martin Portugaliensi natione, canon of Lisbon, whose full name is Fernao Martins de Roritz (from the town of Roritz in Portugal). The other two are Oanes Andrea Vigerius, or Gian Andrea, from Vigevano in northern Italy; and Petrus Balbus Pisanus, or Pietro Balbi, born in Pisa, a former study companion of Cusa and Toscanelli in Padua. This same Fernao (Martins) of Roritz, relative and private councillor to Alfonso V, would, together with Toscanelli, later sign on Aug. 6, 1464, the last will and testament of Nicolaus of Cusa, as a witness and as his personal doctor; a few days later, he would attend Cusa's funeral. A relative of Fernao Martins also enjoyed the confidence of Cardinal Cusa: Antonio Martins, the bishop of Oporto, born in Chavez, a town near Roritz. It is this Antonio Martins who had accompanied the cardinal's delegation to Constantinople in 1 437, sent by Pope Eugene IV to convince the Emperor and the Patriarch of Constantinople of the need to be present at the Council. Toscanelli also played the role of interlocutor in one of Nicolaus of Cusa's dialogues, on the squaring of the circle, entitled De Arithmeticis Complementis (On Arith metical Complements). Born in 1397, one of the most outstanding participants in the Council of Florence, Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli died at age 88, in 1 482, a decade before the realization of his great project. He had been Cusa's fellow student in Padua, and Cusa dedicated to him, besides the cited book, another one entitled De Geometricis Transmutationibus (On Geometrical Transformations).
Thus we see, contrary to Vignaud, that Nicolaus of Cusa, Toscanelli, and Martins formed a close intellectual circle, whose scientific work was unified in and grew out of the great Florentine Council. One indication of the educational efforts which the leaders of the Renaissance undertook to win over the "best mariners of the world" to their cause, is the fact that Columbus' most treasured book, which he carried with him in his voyages of discovery, was the Historia rerum ubique gestarum (Universal History of Facts and Deeds) of Pope Pius I I-the humanist Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini-in whose frontispiece Columbus himself had copied in his own hand Toscanelli's map. It had been Piccolomini who penned the great lament at the fall of Constantinople to the Turks in 1453: "This is a second death for Homer, a second death for Plato: now where will we be able to find the works of genius of the Greek poets and philosophers?" Pope Pius II died on Aug. 14, 1464, three days after Cardinal Cusa, and the chances of an immediate Christian crusade to liberate Constantinople and free the Mediterranean from Turkish control, were sharply reduced; this thread would be picked up later, through the Reconquest of the Iberian peninsula, brought to a close in 1492 by the same Ferdinand and Isabella who would dispatch Columbus that same year on the greatest military flanking move in history-to bypass the VenetianTurkish stranglehold, and reach the east by the rear, going west across the feared ocean-sea. And thus it was that, after the deaths of Cusa and Pius II, the scientist Toscanelli returned to Florence "to continue his studies, turning his face not to the east, but to the west, thinking about a new route for commerce and for civilization.,,2
NOTES I. Clement R. Markham, Toscanelli and Columbus: A Letter from Clement R. Markham to Henry Vignaud (London: Sands and Company, 1 903). 2. Angel de Altolaguirre y Duvale, Cristobal Colon y Pablo del Pozzo Toscanelli (Madrid: I mprenta de Administracion Militar, 1 903). 39
Columbus and Toscanelli by Ricardo Olvera
One of the most controversial matters relating to the discovery of the Americas relates to the Italian Renaissance. In the scientific seminars held during the Council of Florence, Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli presented his idea of the project. Based upon the scientific information brought by cosmographers, geographers, and experts in the science of navigation gathered there together, the general lines were traced of what would, fifty-three years later, become the "greatest event after Creation," according to one Spanish author-- the discovery of the New World.
The direct connection between the Italian Renaissance and the Spanish exploit is established by the correspondence between Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli and Christopher Columbus. In Toscanelli's letter to Columbus in 1480, and in the ones written by him six years before to Fernao Martins, agent of the Portuguese King Alfonso V, the Florentine scholar urged the Iberian powers-Portugal and Spain-to realize the transatlantic project discussed in Florence, and he laid out for them the map and the scientific information required for its success (SEE Map I). As Fernando Columbus, Christopher's son, reports in his Life of the Admiral, the basis upon which his father founded his project was as follows: A Master Paolo, physician of Master Domenico, a Florentine contemporary to the same Admiral, was the cause in great measure of his undertaking this This article, translated by Rick Sanders, has been excerpted and adapted from "The Discovery of the Americas and the Great Scientific Project of the Renaissance, " which appeared in the Spanish -language magazine Benengeli, Vol. 2, No. 1 (1987). voyage with greater spirit. The fact that the cited Paolo was a friend of Fernao Martins, canon of Lisbon, and that the two were writing letters to each other about the sea voyages made to the country of Guinea during the time of King Alfonso of Portugal, and about what could be done in the westward direction, came to the ears of the Admiral who was most curious about these things. And he hastened to write, by way of one Lorenzo Girardi, a Florentine who was in Lisbon, to the said Master Paolo, about this, and sent to him an armillary sphere, revealing to him his intent. Master Paolo sent him a reply in Latin ....
Later Fernando Columbus transcribes the first letter from Toscanelli to Christopher Columbus: To Christopher Columbus, Paolo, physician, greetIllgs. I see this magnificent and grand desire of yours to see how to get to [the regions] where spices are born, and in reply to your letter I send you a copy of another letter which I wrote some time ago to a friend and familiar of the most serene King of Portugal, before the Castillian war, in reply to another letter which by commision of his Highness was written to me about the said matter; and I send you another such map of sailing, as the one I wrote to him, through which your questions will be satisfied. Toscanelli affixed to the bottom of his letter to Columbus, a copy of the letter which he had sent earlier to Fernao Martins, the canon who operated as an intermediary between the republican networks of Florence, and those republicans who were trying to convince the King of Portugal to put the navigational capacity of that country in the service of this great project. This letter had been directed at awakening the commercial interest of the powerful, painting with vivid colors the fantastic riches of the Far East; and attached to it was the carta de marear or "navigational map," which Columbus never let out of his sight for even a moment, during his first voyage. Did Toscanelli believe that following his navigational plan, the coasts that one would see rise on the horizon would be those of the Orient? Or did he perhaps expect those of a new continent?
One fact makes us suspect the latter: the distance at which Columbus encountered America, and likewise the principal geographic and nautical characteristics of the route, were precisely those of Toscanelli's navigational map. Instead of fantastic palaces covered in gold and the refined civilization of the Orient, Columbus encountered an almost savage continent, in which everything still needed to be done. The prevailing mentality of the courts of Europe at the time, would have made it very difficult to find support for a project involving so much nature and so little art. Either way, Toscanelli and the strategists of the Renaissance succeeded in their plan to mobilize the maritime-commercial powers to an enterprise which the "experts" of the age considered "not income-producing" (just as today, the cost-accountants consider the project of colonizing the Moon and Mars as not "income producing"), and such experts notwithstanding, there was opened up for humanity the most formidable period of development of which we have memory. Are Toscanelli's Letters Genuine? At the Congress of Americanists held in Paris in 1 900, Henry Vignaud, then First Secretary of the American Embassy in France, denied for the first time the authenticity of the famous correspondence between Toscanelli, Martins, and Columbus, in a document which was immediately widely diffused through the press of the day. Over the years since 1 900, the vital and previously wellknown link of Columbus to Toscanelli-and thus, to the Council of Florence-was hidden, and ultimately, forgotten. In essence, Vignaud said that the discovery of the Americas was not the result of any scientific project, but rather of chance. According to Vignaud, Columbus never had any intention of reaching Asia, let alone the New World, but only of reaching one of the islands located west of the Canaries. If by chance Columbus did have any scientific theory, he would not have gotten this from Toscanelli, nor from any of the cosmographers of the Renaissance, but from Ptolemy, Aristotle, and other "authorities" of medieval geography and cosmography. Vignaud based this on his "demonstration" that the 38 letters ofToscanelli to Christopher Columbus, and above all from Toscanelli to Fernao Martins, were apocryphal. In refuting this assertion, the historian Clement Markham argued that [fJew documents of this period are so well certified [as this letter]. Las Casas, an absolutely trustworthy and honest historian, not only furnishes us with a Spanish translation, but informs us that one part of the original, it seems, the navigational map adjoined, was in fact in his possession at the moment of writing. In the Life of the Admiral, by Fernando Columbus, MAP 1. Reconstruction of Toscanelli's map sent to Columbus in 1480. there is included an Italian translation. And one copy of the original version in Latin was found in the Columbus Library in Seville in 1 860, in the frontispiece of a book by Pius II which had belonged to Christopher Columbus, written in the Admiral's own hand. I In a reply to Markham, Vignaud attempted to bolster his claim by arguing that Fernao Martins never existed, and that he was a mere invention, created to explain the inexplicable: the tie between Columbus and Toscanelli-which was impossible according to Vignaud, because Columbus was never in Florence, and Toscanelli never left Italy. , Did Fernao Martins Exist? Ironically, by questioning the existence of Fernao Martins, Vignaud actually helps us to highlight the point of conception of the Renaissance exploration project. For in the work of Cardinal Nicolaus of Cusa entitled Tetralogus de Non Aliud (Tetralogue on the Not-Other), there unfolds a Socratic dialogue between "Nicolaus" and three interlocutors, of whom the main one is Ferdinando Martin Portugaliensi natione, canon of Lisbon, whose full name is Fernao Martins de Roritz (from the town of Roritz in Portugal). The other two are Oanes Andrea Vigerius, or Gian Andrea, from Vigevano in northern Italy; and Petrus Balbus Pisanus, or Pietro Balbi, born in Pisa, a former study companion of Cusa and Toscanelli in Padua. This same Fernao (Martins) of Roritz, relative and private councillor to Alfonso V, would, together with Toscanelli, later sign on Aug. 6, 1464, the last will and testament of Nicolaus of Cusa, as a witness and as his personal doctor; a few days later, he would attend Cusa's funeral. A relative of Fernao Martins also enjoyed the confidence of Cardinal Cusa: Antonio Martins, the bishop of Oporto, born in Chavez, a town near Roritz. It is this Antonio Martins who had accompanied the cardinal's delegation to Constantinople in 1 437, sent by Pope Eugene IV to convince the Emperor and the Patriarch of Constantinople of the need to be present at the Council. Toscanelli also played the role of interlocutor in one of Nicolaus of Cusa's dialogues, on the squaring of the circle, entitled De Arithmeticis Complementis (On Arith metical Complements). Born in 1397, one of the most outstanding participants in the Council of Florence, Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli died at age 88, in 1 482, a decade before the realization of his great project. He had been Cusa's fellow student in Padua, and Cusa dedicated to him, besides the cited book, another one entitled De Geometricis Transmutationibus (On Geometrical Transformations).
Thus we see, contrary to Vignaud, that Nicolaus of Cusa, Toscanelli, and Martins formed a close intellectual circle, whose scientific work was unified in and grew out of the great Florentine Council. One indication of the educational efforts which the leaders of the Renaissance undertook to win over the "best mariners of the world" to their cause, is the fact that Columbus' most treasured book, which he carried with him in his voyages of discovery, was the Historia rerum ubique gestarum (Universal History of Facts and Deeds) of Pope Pius I I-the humanist Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini-in whose frontispiece Columbus himself had copied in his own hand Toscanelli's map. It had been Piccolomini who penned the great lament at the fall of Constantinople to the Turks in 1453: "This is a second death for Homer, a second death for Plato: now where will we be able to find the works of genius of the Greek poets and philosophers?" Pope Pius II died on Aug. 14, 1464, three days after Cardinal Cusa, and the chances of an immediate Christian crusade to liberate Constantinople and free the Mediterranean from Turkish control, were sharply reduced; this thread would be picked up later, through the Reconquest of the Iberian peninsula, brought to a close in 1492 by the same Ferdinand and Isabella who would dispatch Columbus that same year on the greatest military flanking move in history-to bypass the VenetianTurkish stranglehold, and reach the east by the rear, going west across the feared ocean-sea. And thus it was that, after the deaths of Cusa and Pius II, the scientist Toscanelli returned to Florence "to continue his studies, turning his face not to the east, but to the west, thinking about a new route for commerce and for civilization.,,2
NOTES I. Clement R. Markham, Toscanelli and Columbus: A Letter from Clement R. Markham to Henry Vignaud (London: Sands and Company, 1 903). 2. Angel de Altolaguirre y Duvale, Cristobal Colon y Pablo del Pozzo Toscanelli (Madrid: I mprenta de Administracion Militar, 1 903). 39
Tuesday, August 15, 2017
Trump vs the Oligarchy, Russiagate fraud
The world situation is very serious. You could say there are currently three scenarios spinning, each with the same purpose of ousting the elected President of the United States. In order of their appearance, they assert that Donald Trump should be out of office: 1) because he colluded with Russia to undercut U.S. elections; 2) because he is unhinged, and will foment nuclear war over N. Korea; or 3) because he is a racist. In other words, "Russia-Gate," "finger on the nuclear button," and now, "Charlottesville."
Thus, the LaRouchePAC-initiated mobilization to make known the July report, "Was the Russian Hack an Inside Job?" by the Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) is not at all a simple move to "set the record straight" about a filthy operation, but a drive to bust up the whole treasonous coup operation against the United States, and defeat the neo-British Empire gang behind it.
Why are they doing these things? Because the potential is so great for the ever-strengthening New Silk Road drive to involve the United States—along with the Americas and all others—and finally and fully displace the rotting monetarist system. Trump has expressed pleasure at working with the leaders of this new paradigm—Pres. Xi Jinping and Pres. Vladimir Putin. Trump is on the record for favoring the key economic measures involved, Glass-Steagall and infrastructure. Lyndon LaRouche's "Four Laws" is out there to provide the guidance.
Thursday, July 27, 2017
Review of Sylvia Olden Lee Tribute at Carnegie Hall, NYC
On Thursday, June 29, the Foundation for the Revival of Classical Culture put on “Tribute to Sylvia Olden Lee” at Carnegie Hall. Sylvia was an accomplished pianist and voice coach who was the first African American employed as a professional at the NY Metropolitan Opera. This three-hour concert had the hall nearly full with 2000 people, including many high school youth.
Acapella spirituals by Elvira Green and Sheila Harris Jackson opened as they came walking on stage. Then the Schiller Institute chorus followed with soloist Gregory Hopkins in “Lord, I Don’t Feel No-ways Tired,” followed by “Go Down Moses” and “Soon I Will Be Done.” The chorus had a surprising bell-like tone due to the use of the lower tuning of A=432 and great training.
Many singers were from the Harlem Opera Theater. Indira Mahajan, soprano sang “Ritorna vincitor!” (Return victorious) from the opera Aida. What really was incredible then were the scenes from the Verdi opera Don Carlos, with the 79-year-old baritone Simon Estes giving an incredible performance first as Don Carlos; and then as King Phillip, along with Kevin Short as the Grand Inquisitor. Then, Rosa D’Imperio sang the heartbreaking aria from Don Carlos “Toi qui sus le neant.” (You who know the nothingness…).
After the intermission, Robert Sims performed the iconic Schubert song “Who is Sylvia?” accompanied by Jeremy Jordan, who then played the Impromptu Op. 90 No. 3 in G-flat major by Schuber
More spirituals followed with Osceola Davis singing “Guide My Feet,” and Everett Suttle and Frank Mathis singing from the Roland Hayes spiritual song cycle “The Life of Christ.” The dramatic finale had the audience joining in, conducted by Roland Carter, in his arrangement of "Lift Every Voice and Sing.”
What a concert on June 29, Tribute to Sylvia Olden Lee at Carnegie Hall. There were many notables in attendance including Minister Louis Farrakhan, whom Sylvia supported in returning to his classical violin studies and performance. Written tributes in the program ranged from Jessye Norman to Bobby McFerrin. A proclamation from the office of the Mayor of New York Bill de Blasio and First Lady Chirlane McCray declared it Sylvia Olden Lee Day. This was a fitting touch for a beautiful musical evening.
Acapella spirituals by Elvira Green and Sheila Harris Jackson opened as they came walking on stage. Then the Schiller Institute chorus followed with soloist Gregory Hopkins in “Lord, I Don’t Feel No-ways Tired,” followed by “Go Down Moses” and “Soon I Will Be Done.” The chorus had a surprising bell-like tone due to the use of the lower tuning of A=432 and great training.
Many singers were from the Harlem Opera Theater. Indira Mahajan, soprano sang “Ritorna vincitor!” (Return victorious) from the opera Aida. What really was incredible then were the scenes from the Verdi opera Don Carlos, with the 79-year-old baritone Simon Estes giving an incredible performance first as Don Carlos; and then as King Phillip, along with Kevin Short as the Grand Inquisitor. Then, Rosa D’Imperio sang the heartbreaking aria from Don Carlos “Toi qui sus le neant.” (You who know the nothingness…).
After the intermission, Robert Sims performed the iconic Schubert song “Who is Sylvia?” accompanied by Jeremy Jordan, who then played the Impromptu Op. 90 No. 3 in G-flat major by Schuber
More spirituals followed with Osceola Davis singing “Guide My Feet,” and Everett Suttle and Frank Mathis singing from the Roland Hayes spiritual song cycle “The Life of Christ.” The dramatic finale had the audience joining in, conducted by Roland Carter, in his arrangement of "Lift Every Voice and Sing.”
What a concert on June 29, Tribute to Sylvia Olden Lee at Carnegie Hall. There were many notables in attendance including Minister Louis Farrakhan, whom Sylvia supported in returning to his classical violin studies and performance. Written tributes in the program ranged from Jessye Norman to Bobby McFerrin. A proclamation from the office of the Mayor of New York Bill de Blasio and First Lady Chirlane McCray declared it Sylvia Olden Lee Day. This was a fitting touch for a beautiful musical evening.
Tuesday, October 21, 2014
Ebola New York at Jacob Javits Center
Mass meeting today, or was it a mass beating??? at the Jacob Javits Center on mobilizing hospital workers to deal with the Ebola virus, and Ebola infected patients in NYC -- if it comes to that. There were at least 5000 workers there and they had lots of questions.
Fortunately there were some www.larouchepac.com people there to tell them about the budget-cutting lies of Obama and company. This sht could get us all killed. Already 22 million in West Africa in the 3 nations of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone are on the line. Will you act????
Fortunately there were some www.larouchepac.com people there to tell them about the budget-cutting lies of Obama and company. This sht could get us all killed. Already 22 million in West Africa in the 3 nations of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone are on the line. Will you act????
Tuesday, September 16, 2014
Argentina to Harlem Vulture Funds
Hey Harlem NY, the vulture funds may be attacking Argentina, but they suckers are based right here near the hood of Bronx and Harlem NY, in downtown NYC.
From La Nacion, Argentina, in translation, they are looking for a blessing from the Pope:
The head of state reporting this week that union leaders could organize a "social explosion" during his visit to Francisco next Saturday, or while participating in the UN assembly on Wednesday, 24, in New York. "You know what? Yesterday I thought I would not miss anything you can think to put together a sort of matinee of the [social unrest] December, during the day of travel to Rome at the invitation of the Pope, or during the week in which he'll be at the UN, "he wrote on Twitter.
In this context, the chief of protocol Vatican Jorge Bergoglio did not rule out dialogue with the President on the conflict that Argentina maintains against the so-called vulture funds, prompting the country's entry into a technical default. "Everything is part of a broad conversation. the Pope, from its position, has a panoramic, a very broad view. So nothing is excluded," said Karcher. Monsigner Guillermo Karcher is the adviser to the Vatican on protocol.
From La Nacion, Argentina, in translation, they are looking for a blessing from the Pope:
The head of state reporting this week that union leaders could organize a "social explosion" during his visit to Francisco next Saturday, or while participating in the UN assembly on Wednesday, 24, in New York. "You know what? Yesterday I thought I would not miss anything you can think to put together a sort of matinee of the [social unrest] December, during the day of travel to Rome at the invitation of the Pope, or during the week in which he'll be at the UN, "he wrote on Twitter.
In this context, the chief of protocol Vatican Jorge Bergoglio did not rule out dialogue with the President on the conflict that Argentina maintains against the so-called vulture funds, prompting the country's entry into a technical default. "Everything is part of a broad conversation. the Pope, from its position, has a panoramic, a very broad view. So nothing is excluded," said Karcher. Monsigner Guillermo Karcher is the adviser to the Vatican on protocol.
Wednesday, July 30, 2014
Harlem Detroit and Gaza to BRICS
We Harlem T-shirt dudes in NYC know that the genocide banker bullies are after us, not just in Detroit Mich where they cut off the water, and not just in bombed-out Gaza. The system is bankrupt and something will go fast. Argentina will blow out in 2 days. Russia will blow back real hard. The thieves have been caught, the BRICS are organizing, Brazil, Russia, Inda,etc, and the fight is on. Glass Steagall Act bankruptcy reorganization or die, for sure. Down with the British Empire, financial system and oligarchy. Yukos to you!!
Hi to my fans in India, Delhi, Bombay, Calcutta, or Kolkatta.
Hi to my fans in India, Delhi, Bombay, Calcutta, or Kolkatta.
Wednesday, November 27, 2013
You're Not Aliens to Us
Hey bros, undocumented people, you are not aliens to us. We want to relate to you, to help you, to get you some ESOL and education if you need it.
In NYC, particularly in the South Bronx, we think we should help people. At Sobro organization you can get help with English as a Second Language, and even get legal help for undocumented persons. Many business workers and students were brought to the USA as children. This is the only home they know. They may not know even how to speak Spanish or another language of their parents. Others need to learn English.
Let SoBRO (South Bronx Overall Economic Development Corporation) help you today!
Find out more information about free ABE (Adult Basic Education) classes, free ESOL classes, free GED/HSE (High School Equivalency) classes, free lawyers, and other free community and social services.
Call at (718) 732-7628, SoBRO, 555 Bergen Ave, BX 10455
In NYC, particularly in the South Bronx, we think we should help people. At Sobro organization you can get help with English as a Second Language, and even get legal help for undocumented persons. Many business workers and students were brought to the USA as children. This is the only home they know. They may not know even how to speak Spanish or another language of their parents. Others need to learn English.
Let SoBRO (South Bronx Overall Economic Development Corporation) help you today!
Find out more information about free ABE (Adult Basic Education) classes, free ESOL classes, free GED/HSE (High School Equivalency) classes, free lawyers, and other free community and social services.
Call at (718) 732-7628, SoBRO, 555 Bergen Ave, BX 10455
Friday, December 28, 2012
Thursday, July 5, 2012
Getting Hot, Take Off Clothes
There was an old song-- It's getting hot in here. So take off all your clothes.
Well, I don't know about the clothes, but as State Sen Serrano says, it is certainly getting hot out there.
Well, I don't know about the clothes, but as State Sen Serrano says, it is certainly getting hot out there.
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