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Tribute to Sylvia Olden Lee Master Musician and Teacher 06-29 Sylvia Olden Lee_Carnegie Hall Rental 6/15/17 1:13 PM Page 1 ThursdaY EVening, June 29, 2017, at 7:30 Isaac Stern Auditorium / Ronald O. 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 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 (program continued) PLEASE SWITCH OFF YOUR CELL PHONES AND OTHER ELECTRONIC DEVICES. 06-29 Sylvia Olden Lee_Carnegie Hall Rental 6/15/17 1:13 PM Page 2 GIUSEPPE VERDI Ritorna Vincitor! from Aïda INDIRA MAHAJAN, Soprano DAVID ANTONY LOFTON, Piano GIUSEPPE VERDI Ella giammai m ’am ò from Don Carlo SIMON ESTES, Bass-baritone DAVID ANTONY LOFTON, Piano GIUSEPPE VERDI Il Grand’Inquisitor! – Nell’ispano suol mai l’eresia dominò 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 Who Is SYlVia? Words bY William ROBERT SIMS, Baritone Shakespeare JEREMY JORDAN, Piano FRANZ SCHUBERT Impromptu, Op. 90, No. 3 in G-flat major JEREMY JORDAN, Piano JOHANNES BRAHMS Vier ernste Ges änge , No. 4 : Wenn ich mit Menschen- und mit EngelsZungen KEVIN SHORT, Bass-baritone DAVID ANTONY LOFTON, Piano 06-29 Sylvia Olden Lee_Carnegie Hall Rental 6/15/17 1:13 PM Page 3 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 “Hallelujah” chorus VAN BEETHOVEN from Christ on the Mount of Olives , Op. 85 WOLFGANG AVe Verum corpus , K.618 AMADEUS MOZART SYLVIA OLDEN LEE CENTENNIAL CHORUS* RICHARD ALSTON, Piano JOHN SIGERSON, Director Words bY Finale: Lift EVerY Voice and Sing! James Weldon Johnson SOLOISTS WITH SYLVIA OLDEN LEE CENTENNIAL CHORUS* Music bY RICHARD ALSTON, Piano ROLAND CARTER, Director J. Rosamond Johnson arr. bY Roland Carter * The following choral groups are participating: Schiller Institute NYC Chorus ConVent AVenue Baptist Church SanctuarY Choir Schiller Institute Boston Chorus Schiller Institute Virginia Chorus 06-29 Sylvia Olden Lee_Carnegie Hall Rental 6/15/17 1:13 PM Page 4 Notes ON THE PROGRAM “I don’t feel that mY approach as a author’s liVes. But theY should at least Vocal coach of interpretation is unique. knoW the author’s intention and What But I probablY am unique in beating prompted the composer to set this the deVil out of singers to help them teXt to music. … create an interpretation meant to be closest to the composer’s intention for For a song, singers should knoW Who his opera, oratorio, lied, chanson, or Wrote the poem. It must be superb, song.” SYlVia Olden Lee could demand since the composer decided it Was and elicit a caliber of musical and intel - WorthY of being set to music … ini - lectual eXcellence from singers that tiallY, the singers should look up the other teachers could not, because she poet’s life and read one other of his demanded the same eXcellence from Works, so as to take on his mantle. herself. Here is some of the adVice she Then theY should sit and silentlY offered, as recorded bY author EliZabeth studY their song’s poem. NeXt, theY Nash in her book The Memoirs of Sylvia should saY it aloud to discoVer the Olden Lee, Premier African-American rhYthms and Words to be accented. If Classical Vocal Coach: Who is Sylvia : You take the tune aWaY, some singers can’t do the song. That’s WhY I insist: TrY setting Your alarm at 6:15. Don’t “Learn the teXt first!” Mr. Rudolf get out of bed. Don’t go to the bath - stated: “Both BeethoVen and Verdi, room. Reach for Your score and open neVer haVing Written literarY teXts in it. Don’t make a sound. Read it as their liVes, said on their death beds: You Would a noVel and put Yourself in PaY attention to the Words.” TheY the place of the character. TrY to reallY could haVe said: “PaY attention acquire most of Your artistic knoWledge to the thoughts.”… in quietness. It is Your dutY as a singer to knoW eVerYthing on the page eXcept Singers can hold their scores if theY the printer’s mark at the bottom. must, but there’s got to be some interpretation there! When teaching For an opera, singers should be famil - German lieder, Gerhard Hüsch iar With the libretto and its source, insisted that his students speak the Whether it’s Shakespeare or Johann lYrics as dramatic monologues before Wolfgang Von Goethe. It’s not enough singing them…. to knoW that Gounod Wrote Faust . Who Wrote the original storY? TheY But no one can put the meaning in don’t haVe to be authorities on the Your head. You haVe to bring it out composer’s and dramatic or literarY of Yourself. 06-29 Sylvia Olden Lee_Carnegie Hall Rental 6/15/17 1:13 PM Page 5 A L Sylvia Olden Lee: Through Beauty to F U Freedom—March On! C H S WhateVer anY of us Who got to knoW, liVe, or Work With SYlVia Olden Lee maY disagree upon, there is one Word that eVerYone Who met her can use to identifY her as a person and artist: unique . There simplY neVer Was nor Will there eVer be another human being born like SYlVia Olden Lee. The term “force of nature” Would be trite. SYlVia Was a force of truth—like Sojourner Truth, but With a piano. SYlVia’s mother refused to “pass for her, in the noW-famous “JauchZet!” White” to sing at the Metropolitan eXchange from the 1992 teleVision film Opera in 1912. HoWeVer, once SYlVia Baroque Duet , featuring Battle and became, in 1954, a Vocal coach at the trumpeter WYnton Marsalis, thousands Met, she instigated the correction of of us Would probablY neVer haVe seen such racist injustice, proposing to MaX SYlVia teach, and thus haVe been inspired Rudolf that singer Carol Brice be hired. to noW attempt to bring her “Project In response, Rudolf Bing suggested con - SYLVIA” (SaVing Young LYric Voices In tralto Marian Anderson, and on JanuarY AdVance) into eXistence. 7, 1955, SYlVia and the World Watched Marian Anderson perform the role of SYlVia’s great friend, the late William Ulrica in Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera Warfield, in describing What music is, on that forbidden stage. Before Little described SYlVia’s life’s passion. “Music Rock, Birmingham, and Selma, there is that part of us that is connected With Was the Met. the DiVine One. I remember Dr. Thurman once said, ‘God created man in His oWn Artistic truth Was the dailY bread of image in the dead center, so that in the SYlVia Olden Lee. Unafraid of contro - dead center of God’s brain, there is this VersY, SYlVia Was the pianist for singer image of What man is; and at a point at Paul Robeson, and inspired Minister Which man reaches the full deVelop - Louis Farrakhan’s performance of the ment of that image, then he Will be on a Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in G minor. par With the angels….’ And I neVer for - Artist and tenor GregorY Hopkins has got that: Ah! So that’s What eVolution is said of her: “No one coaches like Mrs. about! Man finallY coming into the Lee. ManY a time she Would command, image that is in the dead center of God’s ‘NoW sing it again. More legato, and brain, of What man is to be!… And all make me belieVe it’—and before I could of us are endoWed With that basic thing, finish the line, she Would Yell ‘PhoneY!’” and music is it.” Had SYlVia’s close friend and Metropol - itan Opera star Kathleen Battle not SYlVia Olden Lee’s life Was a message to been so gracious as to let the World see the World from the dead center of God’s the candid footage of SYlVia Lee coaching brain: Pay attention to the words! 06-29 Sylvia Olden Lee_Carnegie Hall Rental 6/15/17 1:13 PM Page 6 and an “A,” therefore, located at an interVal betWeen “A” at 427 and “A” at 432 HZ.
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