said the purpose of education is not toprepare the student to “get a job,” but tocreate what Schiller called “the Beauti-ful Soul”: to build moral character in theyoung person.

A recent study in Berlin, involvingpoor and disadvantaged students, foundthat a Classical music curriculum hadprofoundly positive effects. Studentswho participated were more intelligent,joyful, and creative than their non-musi-cal counterparts.

Zepp LaRouche concluded herremarks by predicting that the valueswhich have led to the present world crisiswill be thrown out, and that “people herewill be the seed of a new Renaissance. . . .I’m totally convinced that man is madefor something better, and therefore, wecan create a new Renaissance.”

Two musical offerings by panelmembers illustrated the power of musicto uplift the soul. Alfredo Mendoza,chairman of the Department of Singingat the National University of Mexico,sang Tamino’s love aria from Mozart’sMagic Flute; Beethoven’s “Adelaide”;and, a selection from Schubert’s “SchöneMüllerin” song cycle, with piano accom-paniment by Sylvia Olden Lee.

Later in the program, Dr. Jia-HaoXu, an ear, nose, and throat specialist,

music educator, and accomplishedtenor, sang a beautiful traditionalChinese song, also accompanied byMs. Lee.

The panel discussion on the Perspec-tives for Reform in Education includedpresentations by Olden Lee [SEE article,page 94]; Dr. Jia; Maestro Mendoza; andthe results of a crucial scientific experi-ment by 17-year-old David Merrell,which proved that “heavy metal” rockmusic has seriously deleterious effects onthe intelligence and behavior of mice,while Classical music had oppositeeffects.

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Baritone William Warfield recites in honorof Dr. Martin Luther King.

The Schiller Institute was an offi-cial participant in the City of

New York’s celebration of the birth-day of the great German-Jewish poetHeinrich Heine (1797-1856), held onDec. 12, 1997, one day before the poet’s200th birthday. Pianist Sylvia OldenLee and tenor Gregory Hopkins per-formed Robert Schumann’s settings ofthe Heine poems “Ich Grolle Nicht (IDon’t Complain),” “Im Wunderschö-nen Monat Mai (In the WondrouslyBeautiful Month of May),” and “AmLeuchtenden Sommermorgen (On aRadiant Summer Morning).” PeterChaitkin of the Institute also recited aHeine poem, “Dona Clara.”

Participants in the commemora-tion, which was attended by 150-200people, included Bronx Borough Presi-

dent Fernando Ferrer; State Assem-blyman Ruben Diaz; City CouncilmanFederico Perez; Henry Stern, Com-missioner of Parks and Recreation; andother officials. Hans Heinrich Freiherrvon Stackelberg, vice-consul of theFederal Republic of Germany, alsoattended, and a letter was read fromthe Lord Mayor of Düsseldorf.

A central thrust of the New Yorkeffort is to restore the Heinrich HeineFountain, a monument to the poetthat was brought to America fromGermany and dedicated, on July 8,1899, in what was then the Ger-man/Jewish community of the Bronx.The Committee to Save the Monu-ment of Heinrich Heine in NewYork, headed by Peter Bloch, isworking to restore the fountain.

Heinrich Heine Celebrated in N.Y.C.

Were Right” was the topic of GailBillington’s speech; and “EconomicFundamentals” was presented by Mar-cia Merry Baker.

Addressing the assembled, by tele-phone tape, were also five other individ-uals, the LaRouche organizers whowere still political prisoners in Virginia.Michael Billington, Paul and Anita Gal-lagher, Laurence Hecht, and DonaldPhau all reviewed the intellectual workthey are doing in prison—putting thechallenge to the movement, not only toexonerate LaRouche and free them, butto participate in that kind of work aswell. Happily, on March 9, DonaldPhau was released from prison onparole.

Dr. Borowsky: “Give children music.” Dr. Jia performs traditional Chinese song.

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