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Ezra Pound:
Protector of the West

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Ezra Pound was arguably the finest American-born poet and a first rate Classical scholar. He happened to be born in Idaho, a state not noted for either its poets or Classicists. It was, however, a center of the American Populist Movement, which pitted the (usually family) farmer against the banks and railroads. Read more …

Published: October 30, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged economics, Ezra Pound, fascism, literature, North American New Right, on Pound, poetry, populism, reprints, Ursus Major | Comments closed

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Mozart’s The Magic Flute

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Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781–1841), Stage set for Mozart's "The Magic Flute," 1815, showing the Queen of the Night

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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. Read more …

Published: November 11, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, Christianity, classical music, Count Cagliostro, Emmanuel Schickenader, Freemasonry, Joseph II, opera, reprints, the Catholic church, The Magic Flute, Ursus Major, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Comments closed

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Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro & Così fan Tutte

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Joseph Lange's unfinished portrait of his brother-in-law, W. A. Mozart

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[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. Read more …

Published: November 9, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, classical music, Così fan Tutte, North American New Right, opera, reprints, The Marriage of Figaro, Ursus Major, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Comments closed

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Mozart’s Don Giovanni

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Erwin Schrott as Don Giovanni, Washington National Opera, 2007

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Editor’s Note:

The following essay on Mozart’s Don Giovanni is from the Ursus Major website. Any information on its author would be greatly appreciated. Read more …