A Remembrance of John F. Kennedy And a Recommitment to the Principles of His Presidency

 Dear friends --- an extraordinary event took place outside of Washington DC on November 22, the 50th anniversary of the assassination of John F. Kennedy. A performance of Mozarts's glorious last work, the Requiem, by the Schiller Institute chorus, comprised of political organizers from the LaRouche movement (including myself), and a mixed amateur-professional orchestra and soloists, was the centerpiece of an event which demonstrated two key points: that an artistic renaissance is essential to a political solution to the on-rushing collapse of western civilization, and that Kennedy's legacy is not just his assassination, but his total dedication to scientific and cultural progress. In the middle of the performance, there was a pause while clips from Kennedy's speeches were played - on space, nuclear rockets, nuclear power, poetry and reason, great water projects, and more.

    In addition, the Requiem was performed at the "Verdi tuning", or scientific tuning, of C= 256, and served as a living proof of the urgency of returning to the tuning which coheres with nature and the human singing voice.

     As LaRouche's comments after the performance (included below, in the Editorial from the next EIR) emphasized, a standard has been set for the organizing of a new American Revolution in the coming period.   

The entire concert can be watched here,   --- 

http://newparadigm.schillerinstitute.com/a-remembrance-of-john-f-kennedy-and-a-recommitment-to-the-principles-of-his-presidency/

                                                Mike Billington

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The Schiller Institute Presents

A Remembrance of John F. Kennedy And a Recommitment to the Principles of His Presidency

Featuring a Performance of: W.A. MOZART's REQUIEM

 

http://newparadigm.schillerinstitute.com/a-remembrance-of-john-f-kennedy-and-a-recommitment-to-the-principles-of-his-presidency/

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Editorial: EIR

Reviving the Spirit of JFK

    The scientific and moral optimism of President John F. Kennedy was brought to
life once more, in a concert program presented by the Schiller Institute in the
suburbs of Washington, D.C. Nov. 22, the 50th anniversary of Kennedy's death. The
700 people attending this event, which featured the voice of JFK, along with a
stunning performance of Mozart's {Requiem} by the Schiller Institute Chorus, came away
with a profound realization not only of what the nation and world had lost with
Kennedy's assassination 50 years ago, but of what the American people could achieve
again.
    This is an historical turning point, noted Lyndon LaRouche, who was in the
audience that evening--especially as the concert, with its broad attendance, took
place in the environs of the nation's capital, which is otherwise the scene of
``inside-the-Beltway'' madness.
    In his Nov. 25 discussion with the LaRouchePAC Policy Committee, LaRouche drew
out the implications of this event:
    ``We've had a rebirth, in effect, a rebirth of what Kennedy had represented.
It's like the spirit had come alive again and was dictating the policy, whispering

from some distant place, `Oh, do it now, do it now, do it now!' And we have a
President to throw out of office, and we have a Vice President who will probably be
amanuensis, or something, in this process, in getting us free of this incumbent
President. Just throw him out of office: He's incompetent, he's despised, he's a
liar, he's a cheat. Get rid of him!
    ``...There was a change, not just what people call a popular opinion change: Yes,
it could be called popular opinion, but what happened is, you have had a
{suppression}. We had lost Franklin Roosevelt; we suffered horribly, under
Truman. Truman demoralized the nation!
    ``And so therefore, once Kennedy was killed, the effect of what we had lost
after Roosevelt went down; and actually Kennedy was a representative of Franklin
Roosevelt. Eleanor Roosevelt was his political manager! No, it was Roosevelt's
policies and inspiration--and suddenly, that's all taken away; now, you've got
drugs and war and junk. And with the process of the drug problem, which came in
with Indo-China, we just lost it: The morale was not there. People actually
morally degenerated at a rapid rate, willfully! It's all like they're `children
of Satan'....
    ``Now, suddenly, the gates are opened, and now his voice, though he's been dead
for these years, his voice will be heard again, stronger than ever before, because
{he came back}.''
    Now, the task is to build upon this shift, using the inspiration which the
beauty of Kennedy's ideas, and of the Classical music commemoration of his life,
to get inside the souls of the American people. Concrete programs, of course, have
to be realized: the removal of Obama, the re-instatement of Glass-Steagall, the
launching of NAWAPA, and a serious pursuit of international collaboration around
economic development projects such as the World Land-Bridge. But the key will be the
degree to which the American people can access the sense of historical mission
which the United States last had under Kennedy.
    Just as the assassination of Kennedy precipitated a sudden downturn in the
morale and morality of U.S. political life, so the truthful revival of what his
Presidency, incomplete as it was, actually represented, can create a sudden upshift.