The Schiller Institute Chorus of Eastern MA has been committed to preserving a tradition of beauty and profundity, through the performance of Classical choral music, African-American Spirituals, and traditional folk music. Our concerts are designed to educate and uplift the community by creating concerts that weave the complicated history of humanity in with the beautiful culture that mankind, at times, has created. Our events often contain a combination of music, poetry, and history. These concerts serve as a contrast and antidote to the ugliness that has been promoted and even celebrated, through the decades of endless wars and increased violence. For the last few years, since 2022, the Schiller chorus has curated a series of concerts around the subject of a Dialogue of Cultures, which has featured classical and traditional music from Ibero-America, Asia, and Europe, as well as the beloved African-American Spirituals. You can see these concerts on our YouTube page.
In times of difficulty, it is important to turn to historic leaders such as Schiller and Beethoven for guidance on how to shape the path to a culture worthy of mankind. Schiller Institute founder Helga LaRouche recently said, quoting Beethoven’s favorite poet Friedrich Schiller
“it is only through aesthetic education, through great classical art that the ennoblement of mankind can occur. It is time that mankind grew into a new paradigm, where the poets and the artists become the natural leaders of the age”
You are encouraged to add your voice to the chorus of peace! We rehearse at the natural Verdi tuning of C=256 Hz. and work on mastering the Bel Canto technique of ‘effortless singing
Rehearsals take place on Fridays from 7:30 – 9:30pm at First Baptist Church of Wollaston (81 Prospect Ave, Quincy, MA).
Please contact us for the details on how to join!
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Musical and Cultural Events
“All great music is born of human passion. And if you don’t express passion, you ain’t a musician! The whole thing is passion! It is to move people, to change the way they’re thinking at that mood and time, as a constructive act. Uplift people to what they didn’t know, trying to have them discover things which they thought they were incapable of doing. It is these tributes, which help us understand what humanity is.” -L.H. LaRouche
The Schiller Chorus grew out of the incredibly inspiring commemoration of John F. Kennedy, which members of the Schiller Institute from the East Coast of the USA organized on January 19th 2014 – exactly 50 years after the original memorial mass. We performed Mozart’s Requiem, which had also been performed 50 years earlier at the request of Jacqueline Kennedy, but this time with the voice of John F Kennedy interspersed with the music.
The Holy Cross Cathedral was almost filled to capacity and the effect on everyone was profoundly inspiring. It was as though Kennedy was alive and with us. Out of this process, with a proof of the power of great composition, the Chorus was born.
Musical Directors
Jennifer Ann Pearl, conductor and voice-teaching artist has over two decades of diverse experience in teaching, conducting, and performing. As a voice teacher, she has maintained private students for over ten years and currently is on the voice faculty at EKS Music School, is the Chair of the Voice Department at South Shore Conservatory, and serves on the faculty at Rose Conservatory. She is the founder and co-conductor of the Schiller Community Chorus of Eastern Massachusetts and serves as the Chair of the Board for the Schiller Institute NYC Chorus. She is a volunteer activist with the Schiller Institute (& the LaRouche movement) and has been committed to bringing classical culture and economic justice to all peoples for over twenty years. She invites you to join the Chorus!!
Malene Robinson, conductor and rehearsal pianist. Malene currently serves as the music teacher and choral director at Archbishop Williams High School in Braintree, MA. Born and raised in Denmark, Malene started classical piano at the age of 8. After finishing pre-university education, she went on a travel through Ibero-America, where she witnessed some of the worst poverty and under-development imaginable. She became politically active, and upon meeting the Schiller Institute in 2003, a passionate advocate for a worldwide cultural and economic renaissance, driven by the New Silk Road, which since then has been adopted by many governments and organizations. She continues to be an activist with the LaRouche movement and Schiller Institute, and has accompanied and coached singers in Germany, Denmark, and the United States. She is also an active choral singer with Boston’s Chorus Pro Musica, an free-lance pianist, and mom of two beautiful daughters.
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Phone: (617) 272-0753 Email: SchillerChorusMA@gmail.com
If you want to sing with us, find out about our concerts, volunteer to help at events, or have other questions, please don’t hesitate to call or email us.
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