The Columbus Weekend Online Musikabend was presented on Sunday, October 11, 2020, by the Schiller Institute Chorus

An evening of Classical music, Spirituals and poetry, opened with from Liliana Gorini, president of the Italian Civil Rights Solidarity Movement, celebrating Christopher Columbus and the Age of Discovery. 

At the end of 2019, the Schiller Institute Chorus began a project to celebrate the Beethoven 250th year anniversary by performing the Missa Solemnis, opus 123 in this current year. Of course everything changed with the pandemic, but the chorus never gave up on this project, and at the end of the program, presented the first offering with the opening Kyrie movement of that Mass.

Columbus Weekend Musikabend

Program 

Liliana Gorini, President Movimento Internazionale per i Diritti Civili- Solidarietà

Greetings from Italy celebrating Christopher Columbus

Margaret Scialdone recites

Kolumbus, by Friedrich Schiller

Mike Billington, baritone & Margaret Greenspan, piano

Franz Schubert 

1) Die Krahe

2) Aus dem Flusse 

Rick Sanders recites

Columbian Ode by Paul Lawrence Dunbar 

To Autumn by John Keats

Nancy Guice, alto

Poems Unwritten by Fred Haight

Paul Gallagher recites 2 poems by Robert Frost

1) Misgiving

2) Sand Dunes

Kesha Rogers, alto

Hard Trials arranged by Harry Burleigh 

Michelle Erin, soprano & My-Hoa Steger,  piano

Mein Gläubiges Herze by Johann Sebastian Bach  

Victor Garcia, tenor

Panis Angelicus by Cesar Frank  

Annicia Smith & Jen Pearl, sopranos

Bei labbri del amore by Ludwig van Beethoven

Lisa Bryce, soprano

Swing Low, Sweet Chariot arranged by Harry T. Burleigh 

Dorceal Duckens, bass-baritone

Hold On! by Hall Johnson

Susan Bowen, reading

Reflection from 1846 Beethoven Festschrift  by Wilhelmine Schroeder-Devrient 

Schiller Institute Chorus 

Missa Solemnis – Kyrie by Ludwig van Beethoven