{"id":67551,"date":"2021-01-22T20:49:24","date_gmt":"2021-01-23T01:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/?p=67551"},"modified":"2021-01-25T19:34:54","modified_gmt":"2021-01-26T00:34:54","slug":"robert-burns-friend-of-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/blog\/2021\/01\/22\/robert-burns-friend-of-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"A Celebration: Robert Burns &#8211; Friend of Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sinycchorus.com\/?e=449fade19116ebc08be68f7da2f8c1e1&amp;utm_source=schillerinstitutenycchorus&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=burns_event_2021&amp;n=1\" target=\"_blank\">Schiller Institute NYC Chorus<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sinycchorus.com\/themes\/1\/4f0d472078c27209d6000001\/0\/attachments\/14824215071582325497\/default\/e1_top.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Robert Burns &#8211; Friend of Freedom<\/em><\/strong><br><strong><em>Join us for a birthday celebration.<\/em><\/strong><br><strong><em>Sunday, January 24th, 6:00 pm<\/em> EST<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the story goes,&nbsp;in 1793,&nbsp;at a private dinner in England, when the host proposed the health of William Pitt [first prime minister of Great Britain], the poet said, sharply, \u201cLet us drink the health of a greater and better man \u2013 George Washington.\u201d As the Schiller Institute Chorus takes its name from the Poet of Freedom, Friedrich Schiller, let us celebrate another friend of the human freedom, Robert Burns, born on January 25, 1759.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Jan 24 2021 Robert Burns Celebration\" width=\"860\" height=\"484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XgWfgsOEdbE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, in his essay, \u201cA Defense of Poetry,\u201d established&nbsp;&nbsp;that, in fact, it is the poets, who are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. In a moment as tumultuous as our present time, it is ever more important that we understand and develop in ourselves that poetic power capable of changing the course of human history for the better.&nbsp;<br><br>Join us in a celebration of the immortal life of Robert Burns through his own works and those of others; to help demonstrate that power of poetry and culture in strengthening the human spirit, to not only face adversity, but to overcome it with a greater good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>We plan to demonstrate how Burns fulfilled the great German poet, Friedrich Schiller&#8217;s demand, that a poet be both a patriot of his nation and citizen of the world.&nbsp;  Please join us for an evening of song, poetry, and history, to advance the cause and the joy of true human freedom.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container\"><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>&#8222;A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.<\/strong><\/em><strong>&#8220; <\/strong><br><strong>Ludwig van Beethoven<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Schiller Institute NYC Chorus Robert Burns &#8211; Friend of FreedomJoin us for a birthday celebration.Sunday, January 24th, 6:00 pm EST As the story goes,&nbsp;in 1793,&nbsp;at a private dinner in England, when the host proposed the health of William Pitt [first prime minister of Great Britain], the poet said, sharply, \u201cLet us drink the health of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":67556,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,1,509,486,487],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-updates-culture","category-allgemein","category-updates-music","category-activity-cultural","category-activity-musical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67551"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67646,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67551\/revisions\/67646"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}