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February 28, 2012 Christopher Pankhurst
A Música do Futuro
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February 28, 2012 Christopher Pankhurst
Musique du futur
3,096 words
English original here
Un interrègne est une époque de possibilité ultime. Positionnés comme nous le sommes entre la fin de l’ancienne culture européenne et la possibilité d’une nouvelle culture européenne renaissante, il est utile de réfléchir quelque peu à la direction que notre nouvelle culture devrait prendre. (more…)
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4,276 words
I’ll Have a White Rock, Please: Implicit Whiteness, Aryan Futurism, and the Godlike Genius of Scott Walker
“Was listening to this during a rocket attack at DaNang Vietnam in 71 . . . what a rush . . . after smoking 3 bowls of Thai Stick. Still get a rush to this day at age 64 . . . there was teeth, hair and eyeballs all around my barracks but we survived.” — YouTube comment on “Jim Dandy to the Rescue” by Black Oak Arkansas
Over the last year or two, the value or usefulness of popular music, and rock in particular, to the struggle to renew White Consciousness has been subject to debate. (more…)
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2,958 words
Translations: French, Portuguese
An interregnum is a time of ultimate possibility. Poised as we are between the end of the old European culture and the possibility of a new, reborn, European culture it is useful to give some thought to the direction that our new culture should take. (more…)
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6,701 words
I went through a phase when it pained me to hear my daughters sing.
For a spell their natural voices had became warped. Before it had been their pure, natural voices in the rooms yonder. Now, affectation, artifice, gimmicks. Voices not really theirs. I suffered and worried maybe a little more than I should have. (more…)
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1,850 words
Editor’s Note:
I have illustrated this, the third and final Ursus Major piece on Mozart’s operas, with YouTube videos of some of its best music. (more…)
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November 9, 2011 Ursus Major
Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro & Così fan Tutte
1,734 words
[Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro is the revelation of] the ideal social structure (an affirmation Edmund Burke). Le Nozze di Figaro is not merely an adaption of Beaumarchais’ play (which Napoleon later stated was the true start of the French Revolution, not the storming of the Bastille: a mere riot). Rather, Apollo infused da Ponte and Mozart, as He once had infused the Pythoness. (more…)
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Robert Scotto
Moondog: The Viking of 6th Avenue
Los Angeles: Process Media, 2007Louis Thomas Hardin, Jr. (1916–1999), known as Moondog, was an American composer, musician, poet, pamphleteer, and capital “p” Personality. (more…)
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John Lucas
The Genius of Valhalla: The Life of Reginald Goodall
Rochester, N.Y.: Boydell Press, 2009A reissue of:
Reggie: The Life of Reginald Goodall
London: Julia MacRae Books, 1993Today is the 110th birthday of the conductor Sir Reginald Goodall, who died in 1990 at the age of 88. (more…)
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One hundred years ago today, on May 18, 1911, Gustav Mahler died in Vienna. Born on July 7, 1860, Mahler is one of the great composers of the late Romantic era, along with such figures as Edward Elgar (1857–1934), Giacomo Puccini (1858–1924), Richard Strauss (1864–1949), Jean Sibelius (1865–1957), Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958), and Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943).
Mahler is also the only Jewish composer among the first rank of European classical composers. (more…)
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May 2, 2011 Greg Johnson
Volk Music (in Czech)