Today’s webcast focuses on three topics. 1. The continuing fight to defeat the vote fraud done on behalf of a Biden presidency; 2. The significance of the Pentagon shake-up undertaken by President Trump, which provides clear evidence that he intends to win the vote fraud fight, and pursue his strategic objectives — especially to end […]
Beethoven’s Sense of Humor by Fred Haight No-one is quite sure what the story is behind Rage Over a Lost Penny. But Beethoven seems to be making fun of those who obsess over the trivial. Listen and tell us what you think!
Iraq has been a scene of conflict for decades, and has been devastated and denied development by the 2003 U.S. invasion under George W. Bush. But where the West sees conflict, China sees opportunity. Could Iraq become a focal point for development, where East can meet West? Hussein Askary, The Schiller Institute’s Southwest Asia Coordinator, discusses […]
Happy Veterans Day! – Beethoven – 5 Military Marches Notes by Margaret Scialdone Although not known as a composer of military band music, Beethoven composed a number of military marches, usually commissioned for special occasions. In honor of Veterans’ Day, we present five of Beethoven’s marches for military band, dating from 1787 to 1816.
The Third Symphony’s Finale: Creativity, and Heroic Humor Notes by Fred Haight In two recent episodes of Daily Doses of Beethoven, we examined the monumental first movement of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3 “Eroica”, which addresses the idea of a hero—a world-historic figure. We also heard his epic second movement, a Funeral March, expressing the loss […]
Leading into the November 3rd US election, the 4th largest newspaper in the U.S. had its account frozen because of a story about candidate Joe Biden; a journalist was forced to resign from the publication he founded because of censorship of his article on the same topic; many independent media platforms were taken down — […]
The Funeral March of the Third Symphony “Eroica” Notes by Fred Haight Previously, we presented the first movement of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3, “The Eroica” (Heroic). Today, we present the second movement, “The Funeral March”. What does a funeral march have to do with the joyous celebration of creativity and courage that we heard in […]
by Helga Zepp-LaRouche, President International Schiller Institute Zepp-LaRouche presented this paper to the two-day online International Conference of the Association of Asian Scholars on “Revisiting Gandhi: Peace, Justice and Development” 30-31 October 2020 for the celebration of the 150th birthday of Gandhi. She also delivered an abbreviated 10-minute version of paper and participated in the […]
Beethoven and the Heroic Part 4: The Egmont Overture Notes by Fred Haight Part 4: The Egmont Overture The cause of human liberty and freedom led political discussion around the late 18th-early 19th century, and the poets Goethe and Schiller collaborated to tell the story of Switzerland’s fight for freedom. In his play Wilhelm Tell, […]
BEETHOVEN: CREATING THE FUTURE Notes by Margaret Scialdone Legend has it that during a rehearsal of one of his quartets, a violinist complained that the music was incomprehensible – to which Beethoven replied, “Oh, it is not for you, but for a later age”. The beautiful “Abendlied unterm gestirnten Himmel” (Evening Song under a Starry […]