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The '''Schiller Institute''' was founded at a conference in [[Wiesbaden]], [[Germany]], in [[1984]], and a second conference in [[Washington, D.C.]], in [[1985]], by [[Helga Zepp LaRouche]], her husband, the controversial American figure [[Lyndon LaRouche]], and [[American Civil Rights movement]] leader [[Amelia Boynton Robinson]]. |
The '''Schiller Institute''' was founded at a conference in [[Wiesbaden]], [[Germany]], in [[1984]], and a second conference in [[Washington, D.C.]], in [[1985]], by [[Helga Zepp LaRouche]], her husband, the controversial American figure [[Lyndon LaRouche]], and [[American Civil Rights movement]] leader [[Amelia Boynton Robinson]]. |
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The Institute's published aim is to seek to apply the ideas of poet, dramatist and philosopher [[Friedrich Schiller]] to what it calls the "contemporary world crisis," emphasizing Schiller's concept of the interdependence of [[classical]] artistic beauty and [[republic|republican]] political freedom, as elaborated in his series of essays entitled ''Letters on the Aesthetical Education of Man.'' |
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The Schiller Institute is one of many institutions connected to the international political and philosophical movement of [[Lyndon LaRouche]], which is regarded by some as a dangerous far-right (or far-left) cult (see [[Political views of Lyndon LaRouche#LaRouche's critics|LaRouche's critics]],) and by others as a legitimate movement. Opponents of LaRouche have attempted to implicate the Institute in the death of [[Jeremiah Duggan]]. |
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==Musical aims== |
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==Cultural Activity== |
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===Music=== |
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| ⚫ | In [[1988]] the Schiller Institute initiated a campaign to return to the so-called "Verdi tuning" in the world of [[classical music]], so called because it was [[Italy|Italian]] composer [[Giuseppe Verdi]] who originally waged a battle to stop the arbitrary rising of the pitch to which orchestras are tuned. |
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The "Verdi tuning" is one where C=256HZ, or A=432HZ, as opposed to the common practice today of tuning to anywhere from A=440 to A in the 450+ range. Many prominent singers and instrumentalists actively campaigned for the Schiller Institute's proposal, including several who performed recitals for the Institute to demonstrate the different quality of the Verdi tuning, compared with contemporary tuning. |
The "Verdi tuning" is one where C=256HZ, or A=432HZ, as opposed to the common practice today of tuning to anywhere from A=440 to A in the 450+ range. Many prominent singers and instrumentalists actively campaigned for the Schiller Institute's proposal, including several who performed recitals for the Institute to demonstrate the different quality of the Verdi tuning, compared with contemporary tuning. |
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These included [[Norbert Brainin]], former First Violinist of the [[Amadeus Quartet]], and the following vocalists: [[William Warfield]] (baritone), [[Carlo Bergonzi]] (tenor), and [[Piero Cappuccilli]] (baritone). Other well known vocalists who endorsed the initiative include [[Shirley Verrett]] (soprano), [[Joan Sutherland]] (soprano), [[George Shirley]] (tenor), [[Luciano Pavarotti]] (tenor), [[Sherrill Milne]] (baritone), [[Fedora Barbier]] (mezzosoprano), [[Grace Bumbry]] (soprano), [[Elly Ameling]] (soprano), [[Peter Schreier]] (tenor), [[Birgit Nilsson]] (soprano), [[Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau]] (baritone), [[Kurt Moll]] (basso), [[Marilyn Horne]] (mezzosoprano), and [[Ruggero Raimondi]] (basso). |
These included [[Norbert Brainin]], former First Violinist of the [[Amadeus Quartet]], and the following vocalists: [[William Warfield]] (baritone), [[Carlo Bergonzi]] (tenor), and [[Piero Cappuccilli]] (baritone). Other well known vocalists who endorsed the initiative include [[Shirley Verrett]] (soprano), [[Joan Sutherland]] (soprano), [[George Shirley]] (tenor), [[Luciano Pavarotti]] (tenor), [[Sherrill Milne]] (baritone), [[Fedora Barbier]] (mezzosoprano), [[Grace Bumbry]] (soprano), [[Elly Ameling]] (soprano), [[Peter Schreier]] (tenor), [[Birgit Nilsson]] (soprano), [[Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau]] (baritone), [[Kurt Moll]] (basso), [[Marilyn Horne]] (mezzosoprano), and [[Ruggero Raimondi]] (basso). |
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In [[1992]], the Institute published ''A Manual on the Rudiments of Tuning and Registration: Book I: Introduction and Human Singing Voice.'' This book discusses the tuning issue from both the artistic, and the scientific point of view. |
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==The Jeremiah Duggan case== |
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In October 2004, a [[Great Britain|British]] inquest heard allegations that the Schiller Institute was a dangerous cult that may have used mind-control techniques on a student who subsequently died after running across a busy road in Wiesbaden. |
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In March 2003, [[Jeremiah Duggan]], a Jewish student from [[London]], attended a Schiller Institute conference in Wiesbaden, held to oppose the [[United States invasion of Iraq]]. He learned of the conference after being handed a LaRouche newspaper outside the [[Sorbonne]] in [[Paris]], where he was studying. |
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After attending a meeting addressed by Lyndon LaRouche himself, Duggan telephoned his mother in [[England]] at 4 a.m., in what sounded to her like a state of panic, to say he "wanted out," was "frightened" and "in deep trouble," before the line went dead. Forty-five minutes later, Duggan ran across an autobahn and was killed. |
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German police ([[BKA]]) concluded that Duggan had committed suicide, but a British inquest later ruled that Duggan had died while in a "state of terror," according to eyewitnesses, and that there was no evidence to support a verdict of suicide. Duggan's family have hired a [[Berlin]] lawyer to have the German suicide verdict quashed and the German police investigation re-opened. |
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Initially Duggan's mother, Erica, a former school teacher, met with representatives of the Schiller Institute for several hours in what those representatives describe as a "symphathetic" meeting. By July of [[2003]], her attitude had changed, and she now alleges that her son was brain-washed by members of the Schiller Institute, which she described in court as an anti-Semitic political cult. Her son had told her and his French girlfriend, in telephone calls during his stay in Wiesbaden, that he had challenged the Institute's anti-Semitic views and had told them he was Jewish, according to Erica Duggan's testimony to the inquest. |
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On Nov. 11, [[2003]], the ''Wiesbadener Kurier'' newspaper published a story on the Duggan affair, under the headline "Why British Media Probably Wrongly Doubt the Investigations of the Wiesbaden Police." The article featured official statements from a spokesman for Chief Prosecutor Dieter Arlet, and began with a question: "Did a student from London really jump in front of a car with the intention of committing suicide? British newspapers have publicized doubt about this description of the Wiesbaden Prosecutor's Office and base this on the conclusion of a coroner. But that judgment is in fact different than the way it is reported in Great Britain." |
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===Drama and Poetry=== |
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On April 1, [[2004]], Baroness [[Elizabeth Symons]] of Vernham Dean met with Erica Duggan, and announced her intention to work with the Duggan family to persuade German authorities to reopen the Duggan file. Later in 2004, articles appeared in the London ''Independent'' and the ''Washington Post,'' alleging that the Schiller Institute played some part in the death of Duggan. |
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The Schiller Institute has published a four volume series of English translations of the works of [[Friedrich Schiller]], entitled ''Poet of Freedom'', as well as some translations into other languages as well. In [[Germany]], Institute members have organized public performances of Schiller's plays, including ''Wilhelm Tell''. |
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In an article in the LaRouche publication ''Executive Intelligence Review'', Jeffrey Steinberg strongly denies the Institute had any connection to Duggan's death, and alleges that Duggan told other youth attending the conference that he was suffering from [[Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder]] which, Steinberg says, can cause [[paranoia]]. |
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==External Links== |
==External Links== |
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*[http://www.schillerinstitute.org Schiller Institute Website] |
*[http://www.schillerinstitute.org Schiller Institute Website] |
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===Material on the Duggan case=== |
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*[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46883-2004Oct20.html No Joke (the effect LaRouche has on young recruits)] – ''Washington Post'', October 2004 |
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*[http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=542953 The cult and the candidate] by Terry Kirby, July 2004 (''The Independent'' of London) |
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*[http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2004/site_packages/3125symons.html The Bizarre Case of Baroness Symons] – LaRouche response to the recent ''Independent'' and ''Washington Post'' articles |
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The Schiller Institute was founded at a conference in Wiesbaden, Germany, in 1984, and a second conference in Washington, D.C., in 1985, by Helga Zepp LaRouche, her husband, the controversial American figure Lyndon LaRouche, and American Civil Rights movement leader Amelia Boynton Robinson.
The Institute's published aim is to seek to apply the ideas of poet, dramatist and philosopher Friedrich Schiller to what it calls the "contemporary world crisis," emphasizing Schiller's concept of the interdependence of classical artistic beauty and republican political freedom, as elaborated in his series of essays entitled Letters on the Aesthetical Education of Man.
The Schiller Institute is one of many institutions connected to the international political and philosophical movement of Lyndon LaRouche, which is regarded by some as a dangerous far-right (or far-left) cult (see LaRouche's critics,) and by others as a legitimate movement. Opponents of LaRouche have attempted to implicate the Institute in the death of Jeremiah Duggan.
Cultural Activity
Music
In 1988 the Schiller Institute initiated a campaign to return to the so-called "Verdi tuning" in the world of classical music, so called because it was Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi who originally waged a battle to stop the arbitrary rising of the pitch to which orchestras are tuned.
The "Verdi tuning" is one where C=256HZ, or A=432HZ, as opposed to the common practice today of tuning to anywhere from A=440 to A in the 450+ range. Many prominent singers and instrumentalists actively campaigned for the Schiller Institute's proposal, including several who performed recitals for the Institute to demonstrate the different quality of the Verdi tuning, compared with contemporary tuning.
These included Norbert Brainin, former First Violinist of the Amadeus Quartet, and the following vocalists: William Warfield (baritone), Carlo Bergonzi (tenor), and Piero Cappuccilli (baritone). Other well known vocalists who endorsed the initiative include Shirley Verrett (soprano), Joan Sutherland (soprano), George Shirley (tenor), Luciano Pavarotti (tenor), Sherrill Milne (baritone), Fedora Barbier (mezzosoprano), Grace Bumbry (soprano), Elly Ameling (soprano), Peter Schreier (tenor), Birgit Nilsson (soprano), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Kurt Moll (basso), Marilyn Horne (mezzosoprano), and Ruggero Raimondi (basso).
In 1992, the Institute published A Manual on the Rudiments of Tuning and Registration: Book I: Introduction and Human Singing Voice. This book discusses the tuning issue from both the artistic, and the scientific point of view.
Drama and Poetry
The Schiller Institute has published a four volume series of English translations of the works of Friedrich Schiller, entitled Poet of Freedom, as well as some translations into other languages as well. In Germany, Institute members have organized public performances of Schiller's plays, including Wilhelm Tell.