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The book that will unleash a musical revolution- "This Manual is an indispensable contribution to the true history of music and a guide to the inter A Manual on the Rudiments of pretation of music, particularly regarding the tone production of singers and string players alike.... I fully endorse this book and congratulate Lyndon LaRouche on his initiative." Tunin and -Norbert Brainin, founder and firstviolinist, g Amadeus Quartet " ...without any doubt an excellent initiative.It is particularly important to raise the question of Re istration tuning in connection with bel canto technique, g since today's high tuning misplaces all register shifts, and makes it very difficult for a singer to have the sound float above the breath.... What is true for the voice, is also true for instruments." BOOK I: -CarloBergonzi Introduction and Human Singing Voice From Tiananmen Square to Berlin, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony was chosen as the "theme song" of the revolution for human dignity, because Beethoven's work is the highest expression of Classical beauty. Now, for the first time, a Schiller Institute team of musicians and scientists, headed by statesman and philosopher Lyndon H. LaRouche, J r., presents a manual to teach the uni versal principles which underlie the creation of great works of Classical musical art. Book I focuses on the principles of natural beauty $30 plus $4.50 shipping and handling which any work of art must satisfy in order to be Foreign postage: beautiful. First and foremost is the bel canto vocal Canada: $7.00; for each additional book add $1.50 Mexico: $10.00; for each additional book add $3.00 ization of polyphony, sung at the "natural" or South America: $11.75; for each additional book add $5.00 "scientific" tuning which sets middle C at approxi Australia & New Zealand: $12.00; for each additional book add $4.00 Other countries: $10.50; for each additional book add $4.50 mately 256 cycles per second. 'Copious musical examples are drawn from the Classical musical liter Schiller Institute, Inc. p.o. Box 66082, Washingron, D.C. 20035-6082 ature to show how the natural registration of each (202) 544-7018 species of singing voice, along with natural tuning, or call Ben Franklin Booksellers, 107 S. King St., is the composer's indispensable "raw material" for Leesburg, VA 22075. Phone (703) 777-3661; fax (703) 771-8287; toll free (8oo) 453-4108 the rigorous creation of poetic ironies without which Visa and MasterCard accepted. Virginia residents'please add no work of art can rightly be called "Classical." 4.5% sales tax. Founder and Contributing Editor: Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Editorial Board: Melvin Klenetsky, Antony From the Associate Editor Papert, Gerald Rose, Dennis Small, Edward Spannaus, Nancy Spannaus, Jeffrey Steinberg, Webster Tarpley, Carol White, Christopher White Senior Editor: Nora Hamerman In our cover story, Lyndon H_ LaRouche, Jr. ap�roaches the subject Associate Editor: Susan Welsh Managing Editors: John Sigerson, of music from the standpoint of the method of political intelligence, Ronald Kokinda not the standpoint of the music conservatory as such. (A conservato Science and Technology: Carol White Special Projects: Mark Burdman ry, he quipped recently, is where they put a perSiOn with talent, and Book Editor: Katherine Notley pickle him in a jar, and he comes out never abl� to perform music Advertising Director: Marsha Freeman again.) The case of music demonstrates most clearly that the universe Circulation Manager: Stanley Ezrol is not divided up into separate compartments, but is coherent; either INTELLIGENCE DIRECTORS: Agriculture: Marcia Merry you have an integrated, coherent view of the universe as a whole, Asia and Africa: Linda de Hoyos or you have no rational comprehension of anything, except in an Counterintelligence: Jeffrey Steinberg, Paul Goldstein accidental or pragmatic way. This conception will underlie the forth Economics: Christopher White coming Book II of the Schiller Institute's A Manual on the Rudiments European Economics: William Engdahl lbero-America: Robyn Quijano, Dennis Small of Tuning and Registration, which will focus on Motivfuhrung, or Law: Edward Spannaus Russia and Eastern Europe: motivic thorough-composition. Rachel Douglas, Konstantin George In National, you will enjoy LaRouche's contribution on the ab United States: Kathleen Klenetsky surdity of believing anything you read in the Wqshington Post. We INTERNATIONAL BUREAUS: Bangkok: Pakdee Tanapura, Sophie Tanapura bring you stories that get to the heart of the process of current history, Bogota: Jose Restrepo and which have nothing to do with what the media are reporting: Bonn: George Gregory, Rainer Apel • Feature Buenos Aires: Gerardo Teran William Engdahl's on the debt llurden that is stran Caracas: David Ramonet gling the German economy. Who would have thought that in just Copenbagen: Poul Rasmussen Houston: Harley Schlanger under six years, since the fall of the Berlin Wctll, the powerhouse Lima: Sara Madueflo economy of Europe could have reached the pres¢nt state, in which it Mexico City: Hugo L6pez Ochoa Milan: Leonardo Servadio is ready for the undertaker? This was a result of British-run terrorist New Delhi: Susan Maitra assassinations, political blackmail, and submis�ion to British free- Paris: Christine Bierre Rio de Janeiro: Silvia Palacios market ideology. : Stockholm: Michael Ericson • Roman Bessonov's report from St. Petersburg on "The Cracks Washington, D.C.: William Jones Wiesbaden: G6ran Haglund in the House That Chemomyrdin Built." RusSian Prime Minister Viktor Chemomydrin is the darling of the we�tem liberal media; ElR (ISSN 0273-6314) is published weekly (50 issues) except for the second week of July, and the last week of Bessonov's hilarious report reveals what is bellind the public rela December by EIR News Service Inc., 317 Pennsylvania Ave., S.E., 2nd Floor, Washington, DC 20003. (202) tions facade. 544-7010. For subscriptions: (703) 777-9451. • Leading the International section is our analysis of the recent ElITOpeaR Headqlllll1ers: Executive intelligence Review Nachrichtenagentur GmbH, Postfach 2308, developments involving Iraq and Jordan, and it i� not at all what you 0-65013 Wiesbaden, Otto von Guericke Ring 3, 0-65205 Wiesbaden, Federal Republic of Gennany have been hearing on television. Our corresponpent, drawing upon Tel: (6122) 9160. Executive Directors: Anno Hellenbroich, Michael Liebig sources in the Middle East, provides a wealth of background intelli I" D."morIc: EIR, Post Box 2613, 2100 Copenhagen 0E, gence, indispensable for understanding the p�licy options facing Tel. 35-43 60 40 I" Muieo: EIR, Rio Tiber No. 87, 50 piso. Colonia both Baghdad and Amman. ' Cuauhtemoc. Mexico, OF, CP 06500. Tel: 208-3016 y 533- 26-43. JaptUI subscription sales: O.T.O. Research Corporation, Takeuchi Bld/to, 1-34-12 Takatanobaba, Shinjuku-Ku, Tokyo 160. Tel: (03) 3208-782!' Copyright © 1995 EIR News Service. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part without permission strictly prohibited. Second-class postage paid at Washington D.C., and at an additional mailing offices. Domestic subscriptions: 3 months-$125, 6 months-$225, 1 year-$396, Single issue-$\O Postmaster: Send all address changes to EIR, P.O. Box 17390, Washington, D.C. 20041-0390. • TIillContents Interviews Music Economics 36 Faris Nanic 4 'Smart money' is 8eeing If Bosnia caves in, world stability is into .commodities threatened, says the general The financial oligarchy, seeing the manager of the Bosnian news dangers ahead, is getting out of agency TWRA, and Personal deriv.tives and other speculative Envoy of Bosnian President Alija markets, and hoarding food, Izetbegovic to the International preciQus metals, and raw materials. Association of Parliamentarians against Genocide in Bosnia 6 Currency Rates Hercegovina. The Amadeus Quanet 7 WaD Street, fearing spread 50 That which underlies of model of defiance, Departments motivic thorough declares war on Caldera composition The Mexican model is in shambles, 9 Report from Rio "By the time of Beethoven's death, the Brazilian model has failed, and Banking crisis explodes in Brazil . the musical palette, and the manyiin Ibero-America are looking contributing functions of its askance at the "Chilean model" 45 Andean Report instruments and ensembles, were being'promoted on Wall Street's Ernesto 'Sandwich' Pizano . defined in approximately the same discredited used-car lot. degree 1.S. Bach's last years 46 Northern Flank defined the principles of well 10 Business Briefs tempered polyphony ." A Carlsson resigns, before the contribution by Lyndon H. election. LaRouche, Jr. 47 Report from Bonn Deconstructors at work in the courts. 72 Editorial Yes, Lord Rees-Mogg. Photo credits:Page 5, EIRNSI Guggenbuehl Archive . Page 13, 36, EIRNS/Chris Lewis. Page 15, Bundesbildstelle Bonn/Reineke. Pages 23, 51, 65, EIRNSIStuart Lewis . Page 37, EIRNS/Dean Andromidas . Page 52, New York Public Library Picture Collection. Volume 22, Number 35, September I, 1995 Feature International National 12 Germany's economy is 22 Jordan put in the cross 64 Clinton's quiet war with becoming a 'casino society' hairs in latest crisis over the food cartels Few fully grasped the vehemence of Iraq Some senior'administration officials Thatcher and the British Crucial facts about the defector Lt. and advisers are convinced that the establishment in their determination Gen. Husein Kamal , and the cartels' power must be broken to sabotage German economic internal situations of Jordan and before any serious economic success in the East after 1989. Iraq, are apparently being either changes can be enacted. misassessed or ignored by 14 Germany after unification: international players . 66 The Washington Post: a Debt crisis becomes daily dose of political unsustainable 25 Brits threaten Chirac ignorance This report by William Engdahl , with assassination An EIR Contributing Editor Feature focusing on 1989-95, is excerpted by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jf. from a broader German-language 27 The cracks in the house study of the economic that Chernomyrdin built 67 LaRouche on health-care disintegration of Germany between 1966 and 1995 prepared by EIR's 30 Opposition mounts to U.N.