Foundation for the Revival of Classical Culture

The Foundation for the Revival of Classical Culture promotes classical music and culture, especially among young people, and was formed in 2011. It is registered in the state of Connecticut as a 501 (c) nonprofit organization. Ms. Lynn Yen is the founder and executive director. Yen has also explored spreading her ideas about the music of Beethoven, Bach, and Schubert, and work of the Foundation to China, and was interviewed on radio in Beijing on the "Other Lands" Program and recorded.

Ms. Lynn Yen spoke at a meeting of the New York United Nations- based Rotary Club in April 2012, about her upcoming concert in Carnegie Hall in December 2012.  

Lynn Yen speaks at Rotary Club in April 2012

On the 15th anniversary of the 9-11 attacks, the Foundation sponsored concerts in 2016 memorializing the victims of the 9-11-2001 attacks on New York City and other targets. On Sunday morning of September 11, 2016, firefighters from New York and elsewhere marched from ground zero to the Co-Cathedral of St Joseph in the Brooklyn NY diocese for a noon Mass featuring a performance of Mozart’s Requiem, presented by the Foundation for the Revival of Classical Culture. The performers included members of the Schiller Institute NYC Community Chorus, vocal soloists and a sizable orchestra. Other concerts of the Mozart Requiem sponsored by the Foundation were at the Lehman Center, Bronx NY, Manhattan, at St. Bartholomew’s Church in Midtown, and in Morristown, N.J., at the Presbyterian Church.

Another noteworthy concert of the Foundation was on June 29, 2017 at Carnegie Hall, titled "Tribute to Sylvia Olden Lee." Sylvia Olden Lee was an Afro-American pianist and educator who in 1954 was hired as part of the professional staff of the NY Metropolitan Opera; a civil rights first. This memorial concert was done in collaboration with the Harlem Opera Theater and the Schiller Institute NYC Chorus. Singers included Gregory Hopkins, Simon Estes, Gregory Hopkins, Everett Suttle, and Indira Mahajan. By getting New York City public school students complimentary tickets to this concert, the Foundation hoped to get more students to request to join local choruses. The Foundation is continuing the work of Sylvia Olden Lee in her "Project Sylvia." To that end, the late Sylvia Olden Lee developed a program entitled “Project SYLVIA (Saving Young Lyric Voices In Advance).” This program entailed a comprehensive approach to teaching voice training and proper voice placement, in the national school system, from grade school through high school. It also focused on the preservation, maintenance, and development of the vocal capabilities of matured professional and non-professional singers. Within the last decade of her life, Ms. Lee was involved in a non-stop crusade to re-popularize classical musical performance and education among all youth. “The great voices of the operatic stage are singing in the garages, waiting on tables, and singing in the showers of our country,” she often said.

The Foundation is planning an upcoming Carnegie Hall performance with the Burleigh Society, where it will commemorate the composer Anton Dvorak's 125th anniversary at Carnegie Hall in New York, New York.

External links

• Official site
• Harlem Opera Theater
• Schiller Institute NYC Chorus

References

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