St John's in the Village, and also St Veronica's too NYC

Concert Oct 14, at St JOhns in the Village... Schiller INst NYC Chorus.... 10 Afro Amer spirituals.... more at www.ffrcc.org 

and St Veronicas too on Sat Nov 3 at 7 pm

ESCRIPTION

The Music at St Veronica's season is back in full swing! Join us for an incredible night of music performed by a full orchestra conducted by Benjamin Grow.

As music director of Tom Cipullo's acclaimed opera Glory Denied in Philadelphia, Grow was said to have "expertly coached the singers and led the orchestra" (Broad Street Review), and his "fine detailing delivered the ferocious power of this score" (Huffington Post), in what The Philadelphia Inquirer said was the "most unforgettable opera" of the year.

The Program:

Sense of Place

Felix Mendelssohn- The Hebrides (Fingal's Cave) Overture

— Intermission—

Antonin Dvorak- Czech Suite

Felix Mendelssohn- Symphony No. 4 "Italian"

History of the Concert Series:

The Church of St. Veronica, a 130 year-old Catholic church on Christopher Street, closed in July of 2017 due to low-attendance at Sunday masses. When WestView News publisher George Capsis received a letter from one of his readers informing him of the fact, he knew something had to be done.

Rather than see the church closing as another casualty of the rapidly "disappearing Village", Capsis believed that this was an opportunity to bring the community together. The West Village is a highly desirable area in New York city because of its small-town neighborhood feel (hence "The Village") in one of the biggest metropoles in the world. That neighborhood feel, however, is at risk as property values skyrocket and condominiums come to replace the iconic brownstones. Most troubling to Capsis, a nonagenarian himself, was seeing his fellow senior citizens (who have remained in the West Village thanks to rent-stabilized apartments) excluded from enjoying the community they built. For that reason, WestView News has been hosting classical music concerts at the Church of St. Veronica since November of 2017. This next concert will the first concert of the new season and we look forward to seeing our neighbors there, young, old and everyone in-between.

Music at St Veronica's in Greenwich Village NYC NY

The Music at St Veronica's season is back in full swing! Join us for an incredible night of music performed by a full orchestra conducted by Benjamin Grow.

As music director of Tom Cipullo's acclaimed opera Glory Denied in Philadelphia, Grow was said to have "expertly coached the singers and led the orchestra" (Broad Street Review), and his "fine detailing delivered the ferocious power of this score" (Huffington Post), in what The Philadelphia Inquirer said was the "most unforgettable opera" of the year.

The Program:

Sense of Place

Felix Mendelssohn- The Hebrides (Fingal's Cave) Overture

— Intermission—

Antonin Dvorak- Czech Suite

Felix Mendelssohn- Symphony No. 4 "Italian"

History of the Concert Series:

The Church of St. Veronica, a 130 year-old Catholic church on Christopher Street, closed in July of 2017 due to low-attendance at Sunday masses. When WestView News publisher George Capsis received a letter from one of his readers informing him of the fact, he knew something had to be done.

Rather than see the church closing as another casualty of the rapidly "disappearing Village", Capsis believed that this was an opportunity to bring the community together. The West Village is a highly desirable area in New York city because of its small-town neighborhood feel (hence "The Village") in one of the biggest metropoles in the world. That neighborhood feel, however, is at risk as property values skyrocket and condominiums come to replace the iconic brownstones. Most troubling to Capsis, a nonagenarian himself, was seeing his fellow senior citizens (who have remained in the West Village thanks to rent-stabilized apartments) excluded from enjoying the community they built. For that reason, WestView News has been hosting classical music concerts at the Church of St. Veronica since November of 2017. This next concert will the first concert of the new season and we look forward to seeing our neighbors there, young, old and everyone in-between.

---------------------also see www.ffrcc.org/bach-to-the-future-page for more concerts in the village, starting with Oct 14  .... Schiller institute NYC chorus... 10 Afro amer spirituals, at ST Johns in the Village, 218 West 11th Street NY NY 10014.

Summer Camp with Classical Chorus and Astrolabes

See if you can make the scene, and go to www.ffrcc.org to sign up please... Cmon Harlem dudes... yes, it's in Greenwich village, but you can get on the 1 train to 14th Street and make the scene.  Time for your teenager to have summer camp in the city from August 6 to 17.

Italian crash, make a stash

They are blaming the stock market plunge of 2% today on the Italian crisis.  But, we know that the Euro is about to blow.... We're sitting on a powder keg. In Europe, destabilizations are mounting. In Italy, the latest phase of blocking sovereignty and the will of the electorate, occurred last night, when President Sergio Mattarella denied the ministerial roster submitted by the coalition of M5S and Lega parties—objecting to senior economist Paolo Savona for Economics Minister—and instead declared an ex-IMF austerity hitman, Carlo Cottarelli, as Prime Minister-designate, mandated to form a cabinet. When sent to Parliament, Cottarelli's list will be rejected, prompting more chaos, and new elections. This is a coup, but the London-centered "financial community," expressed by Handelsblatt, applauds Mattarella for blocking "populism."

In Spain, a crisis is looming, as a no-confidence measure will be debated later this week, on the Rajoy government—which has de-merits; but the danger comes from the lack of any positive program from anyone at all. The potential instability here, particularly threatens those parts of the Iberian Peninsula which have been moving strongly with the Belt and Road Initiative.

In the United States, the Mueller/Russia-Gate Coup—though discredited by the hour—is still in operation and causing havoc in policy-making across the board. And all the while, the Wall Street/City of London monetarist system is cracking up, as shown by the recent emergency palliatives administered to Deutsche Bank, and the worsening situations of several national economies which are being slammed, as hot-money games blow out in Argentina, Brazil, and elsewhere.

The situation is very dangerous. But the blatancy of the "British" element throughout, creates a not-to-be missed opportunity, for action to strike the fatal blow. The London-centered financial and geopolitical power network is resorting to ever-more obvious dirty means to oppose the advance of the new world paradigm seen in the "New Silk Road."

Our latest heavy ammunition is the May 26 LaRouchePAC "Memo to President Trump: Time to End the Special Relationship; Declassify All British Spawned Documents Concerning Your 2016 Campaign." This Memorandum puts it all together. As it states,"The actual story...is that the British and their friends in the Obama Administration ran a full counterintelligence and information warfare operation against the American presidential campaign of Donald Trump, because they knew that Trump could win the election against Hillary Clinton, an uninspiring robot candidate, who had completely lost touch with any Americans not associated with the bi-coastal elites."

President Trump himself reiterated in six tweets over the weekend, how Russia-Gate has turned into Spygate. For example, May 26,"This whole Russia Probe is Rigged. Just an excuse as to why the Dems and Crooked Hillary lost the Election and States that haven't been lost in decades...SPYGATE & CONFLICTS OF INTEREST."Though he omits citing the British factor, Trump did make reference to it historically, in his May 25 speech at the Annapolis Naval Academy, saying that, "Our ancestors trounced the Empire..."

Now is the time for trouncing the Empire worldwide. The indications of what positive steps could look like, for the advent of a worldwide shared future of peace and development, come from Asia. Previews were given Monday from Beijing, of the June 9-10 Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in Qingdao, where President Xi Jinping will chair the sessions, host a state visit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, and welcome guest observer nations, including Iran. Two days later, there is the prospective meeting of President Trump and North Korean Chairman Kim Jong-un.

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Beethoven in NYC, Mass in C Major, and Afro Amer Spirituals June 10th | Harlem Tee Shirts

Beethoven in NYC, Mass in C Major, and Afro Amer Spirituals June 10th | Harlem Tee Shirts



As Beethoven jotted down, while sketching out the “Dona nobis pacem” (Give us peace) section of his mighty Missa Solemnis: “Stärke der Gesinnungen des innern Friedens über alles . . . Sieg!” “Strength of sentiments of inner peace above all else . . .Victory!” which he later transformed into the motto of his entire monumental work: “Bitte um innern und äussern Frieden.” “Plea for inner and outward peace.” It is the same with the immortal Schiller: Among his many poems is his “Song of the Bell,” in which the joint planning, forging, protection, and raising of the bell is a metaphor for the composition of true political freedom. His poem concludes: Come now, with the ropes’ whole might, From her dungeon swing the bell, Till she rise to heaven’s height, In the realm of sound to dwell! Pull and lift—still more! See her move and soar! Joy unto this city bringing, May Peace become her first glad ringing!


More on Beethoven and Schiller

For him, as well as for “Poet of Freedom” Friedrich Schiller, the content and intent of peace is the ennoblement of the human soul, so that the individual can proceed to ennoble others as well. As Beethoven jotted down, while sketching out the “Dona nobis pacem” (Give us peace) section of his mighty Missa Solemnis: “Stärke der Gesinnungen des innern Friedens über alles . . . Sieg!” “Strength of sentiments of inner peace above all else . . .Victory!” which he later transformed into the motto of his entire monumental work: “Bitte um innern und äussern Frieden.” “Plea for inner and outward peace.”

It is the same with the immortal Schiller: Among his many poems is his “Song of the Bell,” in which the joint planning, forging, protection, and raising of the bell is a metaphor for the composition of true political freedom. His poem concludes: Come now, with the ropes’ whole might, From her dungeon swing the bell, Till she rise to heaven’s height, In the realm of sound to dwell! Pull and lift—still more! See her move and soar! Joy unto this city bringing, May Peace become her first glad ringing! The Concert Program The concert will begin with a selection of AfricanAmerican Spirituals which is a hallmark of Schiller Institute NYC Chorus’s efforts to preserve this precious II. Burying the Old, Evil Songs T May 18, 2018 EIR How Many Needless Deaths? 23 assertion of man’s dignity against all efforts to degrade him to a beast. The featured work is Beethoven’s Mass in C, Opus 86, which he composed in 1807 at the behest of Prince Esterházy, son of the late Prince Esterházy who had sponsored Joseph Haydn’s career.


Contrary to some who attempt to cast Beethoven as a product of the “Enlightenment,” which relegates creativity to the domain of the Unknowable, Beethoven was a true Promethean in the tradition of Plato, Kepler, and Leibniz, and was dedicated to making creative discovery intelligible to all seekers of Truth. He was therefore deeply religious in that sense, i.e., not in the sense of doctrine, and thus his approach to setting the Catholic mass.


As he noted in 1818 while working on his Missa Solemnis: In order to write true church music ... look through all the monastic church chorals and also the strophes in the most correct translations and perfect prosody in all Christian-Catholic psalms and hymns generally. Sacrifice again all the pettinesses of social life to your art. O God above all things! For it is an eternal Providence which directs omnisciently the good and evil fortunes of human men. Short is the life of man, and whoso bears A cruel heart, devising cruel things, On him men call down evil from the gods While living, and pursue him, when he dies, With cruel scoffs. But whoso is of generous heart And harbors generous aims, his guests proclaim His praises far and wide to all mankind, And numberless are they who call him good. —Homer Tranquilly will I submit myself to all vicissitudes and place my sole confidence in Thy unalterable goodness, O God! My soul shall rejoice in Thy immutable servant. Be my rock, my light, forever my trust! Sad to say, Beethoven’s passion for Truth was a bit too much for Prince Esterházy to take. Following the first performance on September 13, 1807, the Prince complained to Countess Henriette Zielinska:


Beethoven’s Mass is unbearably ridiculous and detestable, and I am not convinced that it can ever be performed properly. I am angry and mortified. Nevertheless, two movements of the Mass were joyously received in Vienna the following year, along with his Choral Fantasy, Op. 80.

This pairing of the Mass and the Choral Fantasy, by the way, is significant for Beethoven’s creative work in general. Just as his motivic development in his Mass in C foreshadows his Missa Solemnis, so the main theme of the Choral Fantasy points directly to the final choral movement of his Symphony No. 9. And it is no accident that the 1824 premiere concert of the Ninth also premiered three movements from his Missa Solemnis. The New Paradigm and the Sublime All great works of Classical art, whether they be music, drama, poetry, the plastic arts, or all combined, are dynamic ideas which impel the beholder into the domain of the Sublime. This is done through stark juxtapositions or paradoxes which are in the domain of metaphor, in the extended sense of William Empson’s treatise, Seven Types of Ambiguity. (See also Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr., “On the Subject of Metaphor,” Fidelio, Vol. 1, No. 3, Fall 1992). As Schiller writes in his essay, “On the Sublime”: The feeling of the Sublime is a mixed feeling. It is a composite of sorrowfulness, which in its highest gradation is expressed as a shuddering; and of joyfulness, which can intensify into delight, and, although it is not properly pleasure, is what cultured souls prefer by far over all pleasure per se. This union of two contradictory sentiments into a single feeling proves our moral self-subsistence in an irrefutable manner.... Through the feeling of the Sublime, therefore, we have the experience that our state of mind is not necessarily governed by the state of our senses: that the laws of nature are not necessarily also our laws, and that we have within us a selfsubsisting principle which is independent of our sense impressions. [emphasis added]

In the 20th Century, the great conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler put the same principle another way when he argued that actual musical ideas are located entirely outside of sense-perception, “between” or “behind” the notes. Beethoven’s evocation of the Sublime is particularly compelling in the concluding “Agnus Dei” (Lamb of God) movement of both his Mass in C and his Missa Solemnis. In this section, the wrenching “Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi” (Lamb of God, who taketh away the sins of the world) assumes a downright warlike cast, as the defenseless Lamb is led to slaughter, only to be interrupted by the gentle, sunny warmth of “Dona nobis pacem,” which emerges victorious. And then, just to make the point clear, Beethoven alternates both episodes a second time. The unifying principle of the Sublime in this concluding movement is reinforced by Beethoven’s Motivführung, i.e., his use of inversions and transformations of the very same “rising fourth” thematic material that opens the entire Mass in the first “Kyrie” movement. Brothers (and Sisters)

The audience’s moral victory upon contemplation of two brothers locked in seemingly irreconcilable conflict is evident not only in Schiller’s famous “Ode to Joy” (“All men become brothers where’er tarries thy gentle wing”), but also in Schiller’s very first drama, The Robbers, and his penultimate play, The Bride of Messina. In the former play, the brothers’ dying father, in words laden with Biblical imagery, yet almost Confucian in tone, admonishes: How lovely a thing it is when brethren dwell together in unity; as the dewdrops of heaven that fall upon the mountains of Zion. Learn to deserve that happiness, young man, and the angels of heaven will sun themselves in thy glory. Let thy wisdom be the wisdom of gray hairs, but let thy heart be the heart of innocent childhood. Those who know and love Johannes Brahms’ A German Requiem will immediately recognize “How Lovely Is Thy Dwelling Place.” Such is always the dialog of great artists, across time and space. And such is the substance of the New Paradigm.
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Foundation has Music, Art, Science Summer Camp NYC

Music, art, science... you dig??  More importantly, does your kid, age 12-19 or so dig?  This could be the big one.... see www.ffrcc.org   These are some really smart kids from the last 2 years of the camp...  run by the Foundation for the Revival of Classical Culture.

Syria Bombing for a Bad Youtube Video

How could Trump be fooled by this.?? He must be really desparate because of all the Russia hysteria.   We had a US/French/British bombing of Syria for a bad YOUTUBE video, produced by the British intelligence operation known as the "White Helmets."  These are really the friends of all the terrorists and Al-qaeda creeps in Syria.... and also the ISIS.... Damn British Lies Stand Exposed More and More: The British hand behind the Big Lie which charged the Syrian government with gassing its own people April 7, now stands more exposed each day, before the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) has even started its work on the scene (expected by April 18.) This exposure...