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SUBSCRIBE TO EIR Executive Intelligence Review. by John Sigerson, National Music Director of the Schiller Institute The following is an edited transcript of Mr. Sigerson’s opening remarks to Panel 4, “A Human Future for Youth: A Beethoven-Driven Renaissance of Classical Culture,” of the Schiller Institute’s December 12-13 Conference, The World after the U.S. Election: Creating a World Based on Reason. Let me attempt to introduce to you the real Ludwig van Beethoven, and to indicate why Beethoven’s mastery of the Coincidence of Opposites in the domain of Classical, well-tempered polyphonic music, is so crucial for us to grapple with today. For those of you who aren’t yet familiar with this kind of music, that’s probably an advantage, since you’ll have less useless academic opinion to clear away. ....