America's 250th year also marks 25 years since the yet unresolved 9/11 attacks. To properly remember and pay tribute to the victims of those attacks and the ongoing continuous wars engendered by them, we will reach out to our namesake Friedrich Schiller, the Poet of Freedom, and two great musical masters, Beethoven & Brahms.

An die Freude (To Joy) and Nänie, (a Song of Lament) in the music of Beethoven & Brahms present two contrasting images of the magnificence and beauty found in the brotherhood of mankind.

The program also includes two works of Antonín Dvořák: Goin' Home and his own recently discovered rendition of My Country "tis of Thee; Spirituals, guests speakers including Becky Rossman CEO of Tuesday's Promise; and the FDNY Ceremonial Unit Color Guard.

In-person tickets by Zeffy now available HERE.

In-person tickets by Zeffy now available HERE.

Schiller Institute Chorus will be joined by the Japanese Peace Chorus, NYC Daiku Singers, an ensemble renowned for performing Beethoven’s Ninth internationally as a living symbol of peace and reconciliation. 

To ensure broad community access, 400 seats, 30% of the seating, will be sponsored free tickets for 9/11 families, first responders, students and student groups, alongside 900 paid and discounted tickets to ensure fiscal sustainability. Please take a couple minutes and read on...

If you'd like to contribute to the chorus or join the chorus in the summer program for this historic event, please call John at 201-233-8615 or sign up on this website.

Weekly rehearsals on Thursdays, 6:30-8:00 pm near Lincoln Center. If you'd like to sing with the chorus or learn more about the program, please sign up HERE or call John Scialdone at 201-233-8615.

In 2016, the Schiller Institute NYC Chorus with the Foundation for the Revival of Classical Culture, presented 4 days of performance, September 9-12, in remembrance of 9/11. Each day, 80 chorusters and 42 musicians presented a program which included Mozart's Requiem, and on 9/11/2016, the memorial included a color guard of dozens of FDNY firefighters at St. Joseph's Co-Cathedral at the Sunday Mass service, puctuated again by the movements of Mozart's Requiem. 

The impact was enormous, from NYC to Washington DC. This year's Memorial, with 120 choristers and 54 musicians, on the 25th anniversary is more needed than every. Perhaps America's 250th will remind us of, and help restore, the founding principles  of our Republic, to help end the plague of permanent war. 

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Only two virtues exist. Oh, would they were ever united!
Ever the good also great, ever the great also good. 
-- Friedrich Schiller.