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Booklet: The Schiller Institute:  Celebrating 30 Years of "Peace Through Development" (PDF)

Motivführung in Beethoven   (5 videos with Norbert Brainin) (a.k.a. Violinist Norbert Brainin Demonstrates the Principle Of Motivic Thorough Composition, Slovakia, Summer 1995)

Revive Verdi's tuning to bring back great music (EIR, PDF format, August, 1988)

Video Archive: Schiller Institute Events Over the Years (Amateur Drama, Poetry and Music)

Beethoven's Ninth Symphony
Choral Movement
Performed at the Verdi Tuning (C=256Hz)

Berlin, Germany, March 25, 2010


Schiller Institute Classical Concerts at C=256 Hz

National Conservatory of Music Movement 1994 Founding Conference Report
May 27-28, 1994 Gala Concert, Washington, D.C.

“For a Marian Anderson National Conservatory of Music Movment” Concert and Conference May 27, 1994 -- Washington, D.C.

Book Review: Emma Azalia Hackley 1867-1922 African-American Singer and Social Activist

Dialogue and Interview with Sylvia Olden Lee Fidelio, Spring 1998, Volume 7, No. 1

Fidelio, Winter 1994, Volume 3, No. 4

Speed, Dennis-African-American Spirituals And the Classical Setting Of Strophic Poetry

Director, Bruce - What Mathematics Can Learn From Classical Music

Paul Laurence Dunbar: The Struggle for an American Classical Renaissance

Philadelphia Quartet Forms "LaRouche Jubilee Quartet" September 1, 2001

Save the African-American Spiritual--Workshops on "Classical Music and Poetry" and "Saving the Spiritual" Fidelio, Spring, 2001

Seeds Planted for National Conservatory of Music Movement Fidelio, Fall 1994, Volume 3, No. 3

The African-American Spiritual and the Resurrection of Classical Art October 9, 1995 Beauty, Not Force, Will Change America- The Negro Spiritual “Let Freedom Ring!” Concert (article)

The Urgency of Classical Culture

Why You Should Join the National Conservatory of Music Movement

“Through the Years” A Musical Drama by Civil Rights Heroine Amelia Boynton Robinson

Audio/Video

Audio/Video page

Handel's Messiah Sing-Along, April 12, 2015 New York City (Video and Audio)

Boston, January 19, 2014 Tribute to John F Kennedy

Schiller Institute Presents Mozart's Requiem In Remembrance of President John F. Kennedy (Video) November 22, 2013

Video Archive: Schiller Institute Events Over the Years (Amateur Drama, Poetry and Music)

2013: The Verdi Bicentennial: Giuseppe Verdi, Nation Builder (see links to videos at end of article)

Unique Quartet from Russia Plays Bach October 2012

Musikabend at Schiller Institute Conference: "Securing Mankind’s Future",
Berlin, Germany, February 25-26, 2012

Musikabend at Schiller Institute Conference: "Rescuing Civilization from the Brink",
Rüsselsheim, Germany, July 2-3, 2011

The Classical Revolution — A Foretaste German Schiller Institute, April 2011

Italy's 150th Anniversary: Citizens Sing Va Pensiero March 2011

Offering from Franz Schubert's Opus 100 (performed by the German LYM on February 26, 2009, published here February 24, 2011)

Beethoven's Ninth Symphony Choral Movement Performed at the Verdi Tuning (C=256Hz) Berlin, Germany, March 25, 2010

1985 Schiller Institute Chorus and Orchestra Perform Mozart’s Requiem at C=256

Norbert Brainin / Günter Ludwig C=256 Concert Munich, December 12, 1988

Violinist Norbert Brainin Demonstrates the Principle Of Motivic Thorough Compostion Dolná Krupá, Slovakia, September 1995

Conference on Tuning Casa Verdi, Milan, May 9, 1996, German Edition

Conference on Tuning Ticino/Tessin, Switzerland, May 29, 1996

A Musical Offering from William Warfield and Sylvia Olden Lee October 2000 Pasadena, California

Selections Sung by William Warfield:

German Lieder:

Die Beiden Grenadiere

Du Bist Die Blume

Erlkönig

African American Spirituals:

Weep Not

Goin' Home

Li'l Boy

Ain't That A Witness for My Lord

Nobody Knows The Trouble I’ve Seen

Keep Your Hands On the Plough

Crucifixon (poem)

Crucifixon (song)

Chillun' Did You Hear When Jesus Rose

Deep River

Scandalize My Name

Take My Mother Home

Ain't Got Time To Die

He's Got The Whole World/ Ol' Man River

Jean Sebastian Tremblay on the Cello: A Musical Offering (Video) August 9, 2003

“What’s All This About Bel Canto, Anyway?” Conference Presentation-
(2nd half of Panel II) presented by the LaRouche Youth Movement September 2003

The LYM Chorus sings "Oh Freedom" at an Akron Church (XviD - Download Only) October 12, 2004

LaRouche Jubilee Singers (Midwest LYM) Sings At Spirituals Concert February 12, 2005 Lansing, Michigan

Listen to the above concert

Bach's Jesu Meine Freude (a capella) Open Rehearsal and Performance
Schiller Institute Conference Panel 2--Presidents Day 2005

East Coast LYM Sings The Battle Cry of Freedom at webcast October 12, 2005, Washington, DC

Double Impeachment Christmas Carols Sung by Members of the LaRouche Youth Movement December 2006

Schiller Institute Conference on Eurasian Landbridge and Bering Strait Tunnel Project   LYM Performs Bach's Jesu, Meine Freude and Mozart's Ave Verum Kiedrich, Germany: September 15-16, 2007

Ave Verum LYM Rehearsal October 2007

Bach Musical Offering Dialog Series LYM Cadre School, Los Angeles, Myhoa, August 22, 2007

Beethoven's Revolution LYM Cadre School, Los Angeles, Harley Schlanger, September 22, 2007

International Conferences — Panels on Music were presented at most of the twice yearly Schiller Institute Conferences.

LYM Cadre School Los Angeles, Myhoa, Nicole, October 20, 2007

LYM Chorus Performs Bach's “Jesu Meine Freude”(MP3) December 16, 2007 Boston, Massachusetts
Download .zip file containing all the files needed to allow your CD-burning program to produce a CD (178 MB)

Historic Concerts

September 5-7, 1992: Labor Day Schiller Institute Conference Music Panel (Video)

Biography

Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart: Journalist, Musician and Poet of Freedom Oct. 2014

Celebrations

NYC Schillerfest - Day 2: Music and Poetry at the Schiller Statue, Central Park Nov. 2014

2013: The Verdi Bicentennial: Giuseppi Verdi — Composer and Statesman

Italy's 150th Anniversary: Citizens Sing Va Pensiero March 2011

A Musical Celebration of the Struggle To Secure the Inalienable Rights of Man August 27, 1993 -- Washington, D.C

Tribute to William Warfield on his 80th Birthday January 18, 2000

In Celebration of Ludwig van Beethoven’s 225th Birthday by Anno Hellenbroich. Fidelio, Winter 1995, Volume 4, No. 4 1995

LaRouche Show celebration of Friedrich Schiller’s Birthday November 8, 2003

Mozart’s 250th Birthday 2006

Schiller Birthday Celebrations November, 2001

A Musical Offering Celebrating the 200th Birthday of Robert Schumann June 2010

Chorus

1985 Schiller Institute Chorus and Orchestra Perform Mozart’s Requiem at C=256

Schiller Institute Performs Bach’s St.John Passion (article) 1998

Mexican Children's Chorus to Europe 6-10-01 (article)

LYM Performs Bach Motet Jesu Meine Freude November 9, 2004

LYM Chorus Performs Bach's “Jesu Meine Freude”(MP3) December 16, 2007 Boston, Massachusetts
Download .zip file containing all the files needed to allow your CD-burning program to produce a CD (178 MB)

Bach's Jesu Meine Freude (a capella) Open Rehearsal and Performance
Schiller Institute Conference Panel 2--Presidents Day 2005

Schiller Institute Conference on Eurasian Landbridge and Bering Strait Tunnel Project   LYM Performs Bach's Jesu, Meine Freude and Mozart's Ave Verum Kiedrich, Germany: September 15-16, 2007

An Early Setting of the “Ode to Joy” Fidelio, Spring 1993, Volume 2, No. 1

Ave Verum LYM Rehearsal October 2007

Lyric Song and the Birth of the Korean Nation Wolfe, Kathy. Fidelio, Summer 1996, Volume 5, No. 2

Music, Politics, and J.S. Bach’s Jesu, Meine Freude Sigerson, John. Fidelio, Fall 2005, Volume 14, No. 3

Sing "Va Pensiero," Anthem of the International Freedom Movement Chorus, from Verdi's Nabucco

Transcript: LYM Discussion on Bach’s ‘Jesu Meine Freude’ with John Sigerson 2005

Composition

How Beethoven Set Schiller’s Poetry (PDF, from Fidelio, Vol. I, No. 2)

The Unity of Science and Art May 1995 by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. The Poetic Principle- a Discussion on the Unity of Science and Art

The Essential Role of ‘Time-Reversal’ in Mathematical Economics by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Fidelio, Winter 1996 Volume 5 No. 4

Part II

Part III

Bach, Mozart, and the 'Musical Midwife' (8/15/01) :: Baron Von Swieten, "Musical Midwife"

Brahms and Schiller Instruct Us In Today’s Civilizational Crisis Richardson, Cloret. Fidelio, Spring, 2000, Volume 9, No. 1

Fidelio, Fall 1998, Volume 7, No. 3

Haight, Fred-Beethoven’s Christ on the Mount of Olives: Gethsemane, As Schiller Would Treat It

Hellenbroich, Anno—Beethoven’s Creative Process of Composition: (partial text only)

Fidelio, Fall, 1991-2 (out of print) (Volume I, No. 1 )

LaRouche, Lyndon —The Science of Music: Solution to Plato’s Paradox of the “One and the Many”

Tennenbaum, Jonathan —The Foundations of Scientific Musical Tuning

Tennenbaum, Jonathan —A Brief History of Tuning (Box from article)

Fidelio, Summer-Fall 2000 Volume 9 No. 2-3 (Special Conference Issue)

Tennenbaum, Jonathan—Bach and Kepler: The Polyphonic Character of Truthful Thinking

Ortrun Cramer—Beyond Bach: Beethoven’s Studies of Bach’s Works

Anno Hellenbroich—J.S. Bach’s Musical Revolution

Fidelio, Winter 1994, Volume 3, No. 4

Speed, Dennis-African-American Spirituals And the Classical Setting Of Strophic Poetry

Director, Bruce - What Mathematics Can Learn From Classical Music

Fidelio, Winter 1998, Volume 7, No. 4

LaRouche, Lyndon — The Substance of Morality

The Following are PDF files:

Introduction to Appendix:The case of Classical motivic thorough-composition

Chapter 1: The tradition of Florentine bel canto

Chapter 2: J.S. Bach and inversion as a universal principle of development in the continuum of musical composition

Chapter 3: J.S. Bach’s Art of the Fugue

Chapter 4: The ‘Royal Theme’ from A Musical Offering in dialogue among Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven

Chapter 5: W.A. Mozart’s Fantasy in C Minor K. 475 and the generalization of the the Lydian principle through motivic thorough-composition

Chapter 6: The principle of ‘time-reversal’ in Mozart

Chapter 7: On questions of motivic thorough-composition in Beethoven’s late works

Chapter 8: Brahms’ Fourth Symphony: A masterpiece of motivic thorough-composition

Fidelio, Winter, 1992, Volume 1, No. 4

LaRouche, Lyndon - Mozart’s Revolution in Music, 1782-1786

Illustrations and Graphics for the above

Shavin, David — Mozart and the American Revolutionary Upsurge

In Music, There Is A Scientific Principle That Enobles The Soul--Speech by Lyndon LaRouche, 5-28-94

Mozart's Ave Verum Corpus and the "Test of Death" with Score for Voice and Strings Pechenuk, Mindy. Fidelio, Winter 1996, Volume 5 No. 4
Mozart's 'Ave Verum': A Crucial Proof of Mozart's Discovery, and A Short Pedagogical Exercise in Musical Memory

Music and Statecraft: How Space is Organized by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. 2007

On LaRouche’s Discovery by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. November 21, 1993

On the Subject of Metaphor Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Fidelio, Fall, 1992, Volume I, No. 3

Part II

Schöne Müllerin and the Mathematical-Sublime Marienfeld, Stephan. Fidelio, Fall 1995 Volume 4 No. 3

That Which Underlies Motivic Thorough-Composition by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. 1995

The Classical Idea: Natural and Artistic Beauty Lyndon LaRouche. Fidelio, Summer 1992, Volume 1, No. 2

The Question of Motivic Thorough-Composition in Schiller’s Poetry LaRouche, Helga Zepp. Fidelio, Fall 1995 Volume 4 No. 3

The Secret of Ludwig van Beethoven by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. April 1977

The "Florestan Principle" in Art by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr., 1977

Conferences

International Conferences — Panels on Music were presented at most of the twice yearly Schiller Institute Conferences.

Musikabend at Schiller Institute Conference: "Securing Mankind’s Future",
Berlin, Germany, February 25-26, 2012

Proceedings of the First International Conference of The Schiller Institute 1984

Milan Conference- A Revolution in Music! Milan, Italy, April 9, 1988

Norbert Brainin / Günter Ludwig C=256 Concert Munich, December 12, 1988

National Conservatory of Music Movement 1994 Founding Conference Report
May 27-28, 1994 Gala Concert, Washington, D.C.

“For a Marian Anderson National Conservatory of Music Movment” Concert and Conference May 27, 1994 -- Washington, D.C.

Conference on Tuning Casa Verdi, Milan, May 9, 1996, German Edition

Conference on Tuning Ticino/Tessin, Switzerland, May 29, 1996

Symposium on Excellence in Music with the Thomanerchor February 7, 1998, Washington, DC (article)

“What’s All This About Bel Canto, Anyway?” Conference Presentation-
(2nd half of Panel II) presented by the LaRouche Youth Movement September 2003

Bach's Jesu Meine Freude (a capella) Open Rehearsal and Performance
Schiller Institute Conference Panel 2--Presidents Day 2005

Schiller Institute Conference on Eurasian Landbridge and Bering Strait Tunnel Project   LYM Performs Bach's Jesu, Meine Freude and Mozart's Ave Verum Kiedrich, Germany: September 15-16, 2007

Schiller Institute Classical Concerts at C=256 Hz

Counter-Culture

The Classical Revolution — A Foretaste German Schiller Institute, April 2011

How the Counterculture Ushered in Fascism 2004

The Classical War against Multiculturalism December 1993

Who Owns Your Culture? Schlanger, Harley. Fidelio, Spring 2003, Volume 12 No. 1

“Country and Western” Music Made in a Test Tube -- To Dumb You Down!
Schiller Inst/ ICLC Labor Day Conference, Reston, VA, September 1, 1996- - - Music Presentations

Demonstrations

1985 Schiller Institute Chorus and Orchestra Perform Mozart’s Requiem at C=256

Milan Conference- A Revolution in Music! Milan, Italy, April 9, 1988

Norbert Brainin / Günter Ludwig C=256 Concert Munich, December 12, 1988

“Concert at C=256” Norbert Brainin,Violin; Günther Ludwig, Piano June 6, 1990 -- Washington, D.C.

Violinist Norbert Brainin Demonstrates the Principle Of Motivic Thorough Composition Summer 1995

Conference on Tuning Casa Verdi, Milan, May 9, 1996, German Edition

Conference on Tuning Ticino/Tessin, Switzerland, May 29, 1996

“What’s All This About Bel Canto, Anyway?” Conference Presentation-
(2nd half of Panel II) presented by the LaRouche Youth Movement September 2003

NYC Lecture Concert Challenges Musical Axiomatic Assumptions July 29, 2001

History

2013: The Verdi Bicentennial: Giuseppi Verdi — Composer and Statesman

Furtwängler's Secret, Revisited: An Exploration into the Furtwängler Principle June 2012

Proceedings of the First International Conference of The Schiller Institute 1984

The Essential Role of ‘Time-Reversal’ in Mathematical Economics by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Fidelio, Winter 1996 Volume 5 No. 4

Part II

Part III

Bach, Mozart, and the 'Musical Midwife' (8/15/01) :: Baron Von Swieten, "Musical Midwife"

Beethoven's Revolution LYM Cadre School, Los Angeles, Harley Schlanger, September 22, 2007

Education, Science and Poetry

Fidelio, 2000
Steven P. Meyer —
The Classical Revolution in Jewish Liturgical Music;
Susan W. Bowen —Celebrating God's Universal Creation (PDF)

Fidelio, Fall, 1991-2 (out of print) (Volume I, No. 1 )

LaRouche, Lyndon —The Science of Music: Solution to Plato’s Paradox of the “One and the Many”

Tennenbaum, Jonathan —The Foundations of Scientific Musical Tuning

Tennenbaum, Jonathan —A Brief History of Tuning (Box from article)

Fidelio, Summer 1999, Volume 8, No. 2

David Shavin — Philosophical Vignettes: Life of Moses Mendelssohn

Steven P. Meyer — Moses Mendelssohn and the Bach Tradition

Fidelio, Summer-Fall 2000 Volume 9 No. 2-3 (Special Conference Issue)

Tennenbaum, Jonathan—Bach and Kepler: The Polyphonic Character of Truthful Thinking

Ortrun Cramer—Beyond Bach: Beethoven’s Studies of Bach’s Works

Anno Hellenbroich—J.S. Bach’s Musical Revolution

Fidelio, Winter, 1992, Volume 1, No. 4

LaRouche, Lyndon - Mozart’s Revolution in Music, 1782-1786

Illustrations and Graphics for the above

Shavin, David — Mozart and the American Revolutionary Upsurge

Lorenzo DaPonte: Mozart’s American Librettist

Lyric Song and the Birth of the Korean Nation Wolfe, Kathy. Fidelio, Summer 1996, Volume 5, No. 2

Mozart’s 250th Birthday 2006

Music, Judaism, and Hitler LaRouche, Lyndon H., Jr. Fidelio, Fall 1999, Volume 8, No. 3

Politics as Art LaRouche, Lyndon. Fidelio, Spring, 2001 Volume 10, No. 1

The Genius of Verdi; Verdi and Schiller 2001

The Tradition of Florentine Bel Canto (August 1998)

YIDDISH RENAISSANCE: Such is Life! A Dialogue on Loneliness and Immortality 2010

200th Birthday Greeting to Robert Schumann 2010

Robert and Clara Schumann, and their teacher Johann Sebastian Bach (PDF) 2010

Mozart’s Entschlossenheit, or “Don Giovanni” vs. Venetian Ca-Ca 2010

 

Interviews

Dialogue and Interview with Sylvia Olden Lee Fidelio, Spring 1998, Volume 7, No. 1

Fidelio, Summer 1997, Volume 6, No. 2

Interview with Dietrich Fischer Dieskau

Interview with Norbert Brainin

Interview with Lee Soo-in, Korean Master Composer

Interview with Betty Allen, Harlem School of the Arts Fidelio, Summer, 1993, Volume 2, No, 3
(PDF)

Interview with Carlo Bergonzi Fidelio, Fall, 1993, Volume 2, No, 3

Interview with Cornelius Reid, Professor of Voice (PDF)

3rd page of Cornelius Reid interview, high-resolution (so graphics are fully readable) (PDF, 5MB)

Interview with Dr.William Warfield, baritone (PDF)

Interview with Elizabeth Borowsky, Pianist (PDF) Fidelio, 1999

Interview with George Shirley, Tenor Dennis Speed. Fidelio, Winter 1993, Volume 2, No. 4
(PDF)

Interview with Norbert Brainin, 2004

Interview with Pianist András Schiff Fidelio, Winter 2001-Spring 2002, Volume 11, No. 1

Interview with Professor Norbert Brainin, Primarius of the Amadeus Quartet (PDF) Fidelio, 1998

Interview: Actor and Director Robert Beltran Discusses Drama Hellenbroich, Anno. Fidelio, Summer 2003, Volume 12, No. 2

Interview: Afrika Hayes- Growing Up with Roland Hayes Fidelio, Summer 1994, Vol. 3, No. 2.

Interview: Mstislav Rostropovich, Cellist and Conductor Fidelio, Spring 1999, Volume 8, No. 1

Lieder

Symposium and Master Class by Italian tenor Carlo Bergonzi April 8, 1993, New York City

Concert of Spirituals, Lieder and Opera at Howard University May 28, 1994

A Musical Offering from William Warfield and Sylvia Olden Lee October 2000 Pasadena, California

Selections Sung by William Warfield:

German Lieder:

Die Beiden Grenadiere

Du Bist Die Blume

Erlkönig

African American Spirituals:

Weep Not

Goin' Home

Li'l Boy

Ain't That A Witness for My Lord

Nobody Knows The Trouble I’ve Seen

Keep Your Hands On the Plough

Crucifixon (poem)

Crucifixon (song)

Chillun' Did You Hear When Jesus Rose

Deep River

Scandalize My Name

Take My Mother Home

Ain't Got Time To Die

He's Got The Whole World/ Ol' Man River

Johannes Brahms’ ‘Four Serious Songs’—An Introduction Fidelio 2002

LaRouche Discusses Brahms 4 Serious Songs 2002

Memorials

Boston, January 19, 2014 Tribute to John F Kennedy

Schiller Institute Presents Mozart's Requiem In Remembrance of President John F. Kennedy (Video) November 22, 2013

Mother's Day "Marian Anderson Memorial Concert" In Honor of D.C. General Hospital May 13, 2001 -Washington, DC

Obituary for Norbert Brainin, Primarias of the Amadeus Quartet Fidelio, Spring-Summer 2005 Volume 14, Nos. 1-2

Remembering William Warfield

Sylvia Olden Lee Memorial

Pedagogy

Archytus’s Musical Construction

Denmark Schiller Institute Pedagogy

Violinist Norbert Brainin Demonstrates the Principle Of Motivic Thorough Composition Summer 1995

Mozart's Ave Verum Corpus and the "Test of Death" with Score for Voice and Strings Pechenuk, Mindy. Fidelio, Winter 1996, Volume 5 No. 4
Mozart's 'Ave Verum': A Crucial Proof of Mozart's Discovery, and A Short Pedagogical Exercise in Musical Memory

Schumann Week Music Classes June 2010

200 Year News Flash! Schumann Sighted at His Own Birthday Fest in Virginia! June 2010 (PDF)

Danish Schiller Institute Celebrates Schumann and Schiller: Video Recital, Classes, Pedagogy December 2010

Pedagogical Exercises

September 5-7, 1992: Labor Day Schiller Institute Conference Music Panel (Video)

Performances

See also: Memorials, Conferences (All Schiller Institute conferences feature musical performances, only the really big ones are listed here).

Handel's Messiah Sing-Along, April 12, 2015 New York City 

Make Music Not War! Schiller Institute Outside the Met Opera Feb. 2015

Messiah Sing-Along, New York City, December 20, 2014

Frank Mathis Performs Glinka's “I remember a wondrous moment” Dec. 7, 2014

Musikabend at Schiller Institute Conference, Frankfurt, Oct. 2014, featuring Beethoven's opera Fidelio

Musikabend at Schiller Institute Conference, Frankfurt, April 2013

Musikabend at Schiller Institute Conference: Frankfurt, Nov. 2012

Unique Quartet from Russia Plays Bach October 2012

Musikabend at Schiller Institute Conference: "Securing Mankind’s Future",
Berlin, Germany, February 25-26, 2012

Musikabend at Schiller Institute Conference: "Rescuing Civilization From the Brink" July 2-3, 2011 Rüsselsheim, Germany

Italy's 150th Anniversary: Citizens Sing Va Pensiero March 2011

Offering from Franz Schubert's Opus 100 (performed by the German LYM on February 26, 2009; published February 24, 2011)

1985 Schiller Institute Chorus and Orchestra Perform Mozart’s Requiem at C=256

Norbert Brainin / Günter Ludwig C=256 Concert Munich, December 12, 1988

“Concert at C=256” Norbert Brainin,Violin; Günther Ludwig, Piano June 6, 1990 -- Washington, D.C.

Symposium and Master Class by Italian tenor Carlo Bergonzi April 8, 1993, New York City

A Musical Celebration of the Struggle To Secure the Inalienable Rights of Man August 27, 1993 -- Washington, D.C

National Conservatory of Music Movement 1994 Founding Conference Report
May 27-28, 1994 Gala Concert, Washington, D.C.

“For a Marian Anderson National Conservatory of Music Movment” Concert and Conference May 27, 1994 -- Washington, D.C.

Concert of Spirituals, Lieder and Opera at Howard University May 28, 1994

"Through the Years" A Musical Drama by Civil Rights Heroine Amelia Boynton Robinson January 14, 1995 -Washington, D.C.

The Unity of Science and Art May 1995 by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. The Poetic Principle- a Discussion on the Unity of Science and Art

Violinist Norbert Brainin Demonstrates the Principle Of Motivic Thorough Composition Summer 1995

The Essential Role of ‘Time-Reversal’ in Mathematical Economics by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Fidelio, Winter 1996 Volume 5 No. 4

Part II

Part III

Behind the Notes LaRouche, Lyndon. Fidelio, Summer 1997, Volume 6, No. 2

Symposium on Excellence in Music with the Thomanerchor February 7, 1998, Washington, DC (article)

Schiller Institute Performs Bach’s St.John Passion (article) 1998

Tribute to William Warfield on his 80th Birthday January 18, 2000

A Musical Offering from William Warfield and Sylvia Olden Lee October 2000 Pasadena, California

Selections Sung by William Warfield:

German Lieder:

Die Beiden Grenadiere

Du Bist Die Blume

Erlkönig

African American Spirituals:

Weep Not

Goin' Home

Li'l Boy

Ain't That A Witness for My Lord

Nobody Knows The Trouble I’ve Seen

Keep Your Hands On the Plough

Crucifixon (poem)

Crucifixon (song)

Chillun' Did You Hear When Jesus Rose

Deep River

Scandalize My Name

Take My Mother Home

Ain't Got Time To Die

He's Got The Whole World/ Ol' Man River

Mozart's Clemenza di Tito Dresden, Germany, November 20, 2000

Los Angeles Concert: A Tribute to the Spirit of Man (PDF) Fidelio, 2000

Bellini Opera Performed in Parma at Verdi Tuning March 7, 2001

Mother's Day "Marian Anderson Memorial Concert" In Honor of D.C. General Hospital May 13, 2001 -Washington, DC

Mexican Children's Chorus to Europe 6-10-01 (article)

An Evening in the “Simultaneity of Eternity” With Shakespeare, Keats, and William Warfield Fidelio, Fall 2001, Volume 10, No. 3

La Scala Theater in Milan Ends Verdi Year with Otello in the Verdi Tuning, 12-7-01;
"Viva Verdi!" Schiller Institute Concert in the Mexican City of Leon, 11-27-01

Jean Sebastian Tremblay on the Cello: A Musical Offering (Video) August 9, 2003

Mexico Schiller Institute Choruses Inaugurate Pavarotti Concert November 12, 2003

András Schiff in Concert Fidelio, Winter 2003, Volume 12, No. 4
(PDF)

The LYM Chorus sings "Oh Freedom" at an Akron Church (XviD - Download Only) October 12, 2004

LYM Performs Bach Motet Jesu Meine Freude November 9, 2004

LaRouche Jubilee Singers (Midwest LYM) Sings At Spirituals Concert February 12, 2005 Lansing, Michigan

Listen to the above concert

Bach's Jesu Meine Freude (a capella) Open Rehearsal and Performance
Schiller Institute Conference Panel 2--Presidents Day 2005

East Coast LYM Sings The Battle Cry of Freedom at webcast October 12, 2005, Washington, DC

Double Impeachment Christmas Carols Sung by Members of the LaRouche Youth Movement December 2006

Schiller Institute Conference on Eurasian Landbridge and Bering Strait Tunnel Project   LYM Performs Bach's Jesu, Meine Freude and Mozart's Ave Verum Kiedrich, Germany: September 15-16, 2007

Schiller Institute Classical Concerts at C=256 Hz

LYM Chorus Performs Bach's “Jesu Meine Freude”(MP3) December 16, 2007 Boston, Massachusetts
Download .zip file containing all the files needed to allow your CD-burning program to produce a CD (178 MB)

Offering from Franz Schubert's Opus 100 (performed by the German LYM on February 26, 2009)

Beethoven's Ninth Symphony Choral Movement Performed at the Verdi Tuning (C=256Hz) Berlin, Germany, March 25 2010

A Musical Offering Celebrating the 200th Birthday of Robert Schumann June 2010

Schumann Week Music Classes June 2010

200 Year News Flash! Schumann Sighted at His Own Birthday Fest in Virginia! June 2010 (PDF)

Poetry and Drama

The Unity of Science and Art May 1995 by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. The Poetic Principle- a Discussion on the Unity of Science and Art

An Evening in the “Simultaneity of Eternity” With Shakespeare, Keats, and William Warfield Fidelio, Fall 2001, Volume 10, No. 3

A Setting of Schiller’s “Dignity of Women” Fidelio, Summer, 1993, Volume 2, No, 3

An Early Setting of the “Ode to Joy” Fidelio, Spring 1993, Volume 2, No. 1

Education, Science and Poetry

Fidelio, Winter 1994, Volume 3, No. 4

Speed, Dennis-African-American Spirituals And the Classical Setting Of Strophic Poetry

Director, Bruce - What Mathematics Can Learn From Classical Music

Goethe's “Mailied” (9/95)

Interview: Actor and Director Robert Beltran Discusses Drama Hellenbroich, Anno. Fidelio, Summer 2003, Volume 12, No. 2

Poetry and Agape: Reflections on Schiller and Goethe By Helga Zepp-LaRouche (1988)

Poetry and Classical Music Workshop ( article ) April 30, 2000 -- Arcadia, Ca

The Question of Motivic Thorough-Composition in Schiller’s Poetry LaRouche, Helga Zepp. Fidelio, Fall 1995 Volume 4 No. 3

“Through the Years” A Musical Drama by Civil Rights Heroine Amelia Boynton Robinson

Danish Schiller Institute Celebrates Schumann and Schiller: Video Recital, Classes, Pedagogy December 2010

Reviews

Reviews Page - FIDELIO Online

Recital Evokes Bel canto-Era Beauty: Joseph Calleja, tenor and Kevin Miller, piano April 2015

András Schiff in Concert Fidelio, Winter 2003, Volume 12, No. 4
(PDF)

Reviews: Books

Book Review: Emma Azalia Hackley 1867-1922 African-American Singer and Social Activist

Reviews: Opera

Daniel Beaty’s “Breath and Imagination”: A Sublime Story of Roland Hayes (Emerson Paramount Theater, Boston, Jan. 2015)

Mozart's Clemenza di Tito Dresden, Germany, November 20, 2000

La Scala Theater in Milan Ends Verdi Year with Otello in the Verdi Tuning, 12-7-01;
"Viva Verdi!" Schiller Institute Concert in the Mexican City of Leon, 11-27-01

Beauty and Pathos Of Mozart Undermined By Director's Conceit (Los Angeles Opera, December 2007)

Fidelio, Fall 2004, Volume 13. No. 3
Reviews: Verdi’s LaTraviata - The Woman Who Went Astray;
Close to Perfection - Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro at Los Angeles Opera (PDF)

Fidelio, Winter 2004, Volume 13, No. 4
Reviews: Verdi’s ‘Il Trovatore’: Sublime Love vs. Revenge at the Washington National Opera;
‘Rigoletto’: Verdi’s Education of the Emotions - Michigan Opera Theater (PDF)

Seattle Opera’s Aida Delivers a Message for All Mankind August 2008

Houston Grand Opera: A Spectacular "Aida" 2007

Los Angeles Opera's Superb "Fidelio" Does Justice to Beethoven 2007

Mozart's Don Giovanni from a Houston Opera (PDF)

Verdi's Tragedy "The Masked Ball" Brings Joy to Houston Opera Attendees 2007

Verdi’s Opera Simon Boccanegra and the Science of Statecraft 10/01/01

What Beethoven's Fidelio Teaches Americans about Hope November 1990

“Cyrano”: A Romantic Opera Which Begs for the Classical (Michigan Opera Theatre) 2007

“Marriage of Figaro": An Opera for Our Time (Michigan Opera Theatre) 2007

Los Angeles Opera: The Magic Flute (Die Zauberflote) January 2009

Donizetti in Detroit: L’elisir d’Amore April 2009

Virginia Opera: The Barber of Seville (Il Barbiere di Siviglia) April 2009

Houston Grand Opera: Verdi’s Rigoletto June 2009

Washington National Opera Barber of Seville September 2009

Donizetti Sings at the Houston Grand Opera (The Elixir of Love) October 2009

Virginia Opera:  Donizetti’s The Daughter of the Regiment December 2009

Don Giovanni: Detroit Opera’s Lack of Morals 2010

Virginia Opera: Mozart's Don Giovanni 2010

Wagner's Ring(worm) Cycle -- Los Angeles' Götterdamerung? 2010

Virginia Opera Performs Verdi's Rigoletto 2010

Reviews: Recordings

Review: Mozart’s “The Philospher’s Stone” 2000

Science

Furtwängler's Secret, Revisited: An Exploration into the Furtwängler Principle June 2012

The Essential Role of ‘Time-Reversal’ in Mathematical Economics by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Fidelio, Winter 1996 Volume 5 No. 4

Part II

Part III

Astronomy and the Spirituals 2003

Beethoven as a Physical Scientist (PDF) 1988 by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

same as above, but higher resolution and 10 times bigger file (51.14MB)

Denmark Schiller Institute Pedagogy

Fidelio, Fall, 1991-2 (out of print) (Volume I, No. 1 )

LaRouche, Lyndon —The Science of Music: Solution to Plato’s Paradox of the “One and the Many”

Tennenbaum, Jonathan —The Foundations of Scientific Musical Tuning

Tennenbaum, Jonathan —A Brief History of Tuning (Box from article)

Fidelio, Summer-Fall 2000 Volume 9 No. 2-3 (Special Conference Issue)

Tennenbaum, Jonathan—Bach and Kepler: The Polyphonic Character of Truthful Thinking

Ortrun Cramer—Beyond Bach: Beethoven’s Studies of Bach’s Works

Anno Hellenbroich—J.S. Bach’s Musical Revolution

How Gauss Determined the Orbit of Ceres Tennenbaum, Jonathan & Director, Bruce. Fidelio, Summer 1998, Volume 7, No. 2 (Special Issue)

LaRouche on Classical Aesthetics, 1988

On the Subject of Metaphor Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Fidelio, Fall, 1992, Volume I, No. 3

Part II

Pedagogical Exercises

Politics as Art LaRouche, Lyndon. Fidelio, Spring, 2001 Volume 10, No. 1

Return to the SCIENTIFIC TUNING!

The Classical Principle In Art and Science LaRouche, Lyndon. Fidelio, Winter 1997, Volume 8., No. 4

The Secret of Ludwig van Beethoven by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. April 1977

The "Florestan Principle" in Art by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr., 1977

Laughter, Music and Creativity, by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. (1976)

Song

Musikabend at Schiller Institute Conference: "Securing Mankind’s Future",
Berlin, Germany, February 25-26, 2012

Mexico Schiller Institute Choruses Inaugurate Pavarotti Concert November 12, 2003

East Coast LYM Sings The Battle Cry of Freedom at webcast October 12, 2005, Washington, DC

A Setting of Schiller’s “Dignity of Women” Fidelio, Summer, 1993, Volume 2, No, 3

Brahms and Schiller Instruct Us In Today’s Civilizational Crisis Richardson, Cloret. Fidelio, Spring, 2000, Volume 9, No. 1

Chart of Human Vocal Registers (6 Species of the Singing Voice) 1996

same as above, but larger

Lyric Song and the Birth of the Korean Nation Wolfe, Kathy. Fidelio, Summer 1996, Volume 5, No. 2

Maestro Briano Exercises Minds To Build Beautiful Voices Dec. 18, 2003

Schöne Müllerin and the Mathematical-Sublime Marienfeld, Stephan. Fidelio, Fall 1995 Volume 4 No. 3

Thinking Through Singing-Strategic Significance of Bach’s ’A Musical Offering” Shavin, David. Fidelio, Winter 2000, Volume 9, No. 4

“Country and Western” Music Made in a Test Tube -- To Dumb You Down!
Schiller Inst/ ICLC Labor Day Conference, Reston, VA, September 1, 1996- - - Music Presentations

Spanish

Coro De Ninos Del Instituto Schiller De Sonora

Spirituals

“For a Marian Anderson National Conservatory of Music Movment” Concert and Conference May 27, 1994 -- Washington, D.C.

Concert of Spirituals, Lieder and Opera at Howard University May 28, 1994

A Musical Offering from William Warfield and Sylvia Olden Lee October 2000 Pasadena, California

Selections Sung by William Warfield:

German Lieder:

Die Beiden Grenadiere

Du Bist Die Blume

Erlkönig

African American Spirituals:

Weep Not

Goin' Home

Li'l Boy

Ain't That A Witness for My Lord

Nobody Knows The Trouble I’ve Seen

Keep Your Hands On the Plough

Crucifixon (poem)

Crucifixon (song)

Chillun' Did You Hear When Jesus Rose

Deep River

Scandalize My Name

Take My Mother Home

Ain't Got Time To Die

He's Got The Whole World/ Ol' Man River

The LYM Chorus sings "Oh Freedom" at an Akron Church (XviD - Download Only) October 12, 2004

LaRouche Jubilee Singers (Midwest LYM) Sings At Spirituals Concert February 12, 2005 Lansing, Michigan

Listen to the above concert

Astronomy and the Spirituals 2003

Fidelio, Winter 1994, Volume 3, No. 4

Speed, Dennis-African-American Spirituals And the Classical Setting Of Strophic Poetry

Director, Bruce - What Mathematics Can Learn From Classical Music

Philadelphia Quartet Forms "LaRouche Jubilee Quartet" September 1, 2001

Save the African-American Spiritual--Workshops on "Classical Music and Poetry" and "Saving the Spiritual" Fidelio, Spring, 2001

The African-American Spiritual and the Resurrection of Classical Art October 9, 1995 Beauty, Not Force, Will Change America- The Negro Spiritual “Let Freedom Ring!” Concert (article)

Texts

National Conservatory of Music Movement 1994 Founding Conference Report
May 27-28, 1994 Gala Concert, Washington, D.C.

English Translations and Texts

PDF Files - Sheet Music

Sing "Va Pensiero," Anthem of the International Freedom Movement Chorus, from Verdi's Nabucco

“Through the Years” A Musical Drama by Civil Rights Heroine Amelia Boynton Robinson

Translations

Goethe's “Mailied” (9/95)

Tuning and Registration

Revive Verdi's tuning to bring back great music (EIR, PDF format, August, 1988)

The Classical Revolution — A Foretaste German Schiller Institute, April 2011

A Manual on Tuning and Registration

1985 Schiller Institute Chorus and Orchestra Perform Mozart’s Requiem at C=256

Norbert Brainin / Günter Ludwig C=256 Concert Munich, December 12, 1988

“Concert at C=256” Norbert Brainin,Violin; Günther Ludwig, Piano June 6, 1990 -- Washington, D.C.

Conference on Tuning Casa Verdi, Milan, May 9, 1996, German Edition

Conference on Tuning Ticino/Tessin, Switzerland, May 29, 1996

Bellini Opera Performed in Parma at Verdi Tuning March 7, 2001

La Scala Theater in Milan Ends Verdi Year with Otello in the Verdi Tuning, 12-7-01;
"Viva Verdi!" Schiller Institute Concert in the Mexican City of Leon, 11-27-01

A Unique Experiment Demonstrating the Superiority of Verdi Tuning Cremona, Italy November 6, 1988

Fidelio, Fall, 1991-2 (out of print) (Volume I, No. 1 )

LaRouche, Lyndon —The Science of Music: Solution to Plato’s Paradox of the “One and the Many”

Tennenbaum, Jonathan —The Foundations of Scientific Musical Tuning

Tennenbaum, Jonathan —A Brief History of Tuning (Box from article)

Petition for a Verdi Opera at the Verdi Tuning in 2001

Petition to Support a Return to C=256 (A=432), with a partial list of petition signers. 2001

Return to the SCIENTIFIC TUNING!

Workshops

The Classically-Tuned Chorus as a Moral Institution: A Declaration of War on the Stupidity and Banality of Popular "Culture" (join the NY/NJ Schiller Institute chorus: Facebook.com/schillerchorusnyc)

Symposium and Master Class by Italian tenor Carlo Bergonzi April 8, 1993, New York City

An Evening in the “Simultaneity of Eternity” With Shakespeare, Keats, and William Warfield Fidelio, Fall 2001, Volume 10, No. 3

Bach's Jesu Meine Freude (a capella) Open Rehearsal and Performance
Schiller Institute Conference Panel 2--Presidents Day 2005

Ave Verum LYM Rehearsal October 2007

LYM Cadre School Los Angeles, Myhoa, Nicole, October 20, 2007

Maestro Briano Exercises Minds To Build Beautiful Voices Dec. 18, 2003

Maestro Briano Visits Los Angeles July 2003

Poetry and Classical Music Workshop ( article ) April 30, 2000 -- Arcadia, Ca

Transcript: LYM Discussion on Bach’s ‘Jesu Meine Freude’ with John Sigerson 2005

Workshop at Pasadena City College October 31, 1999 Pasadena, Ca

Schumann Week Music Classes June 2010

Danish Schiller Institute Celebrates Schumann and Schiller: Video Recital, Classes, Pedagogy December 2010

Miscellaneous

Italy's 150th Anniversary: Citizens Sing Va Pensiero March 2011

News Briefs, mostly from 2001

Revolution in Music Page

LaRouche Youth Movement Music Highlights

Historic Videos page

The LaRouche Show

List of Music Articles on this Site

FIDELIO Table of Contents

What is the Schiller Institute?

LaRouche Youth Movement