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Wagner Bicentennial Symposium
Remembering Richard Wagner:
May 22, 1813–February 13, 1883

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Richard Wagner was born 200 years ago today in Leipzig in the kingdom of Saxony. He died on February 13, 1883 in Venice. As an artist, intellectual, author, and cultural force, Wagner has left an immense metapolitical legacy, which is being evaluated and appropriated in the North American New Right’s Wagner Bicentennial Symposium, which will continue through the end of May with articles by Collin Cleary, Christopher Pankhurst, and others. Read more …

Published: May 22, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, commemorations, Greg Johnson, North American New Right, originals, Wagner Bicentennial Symposium | Comments closed

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Behind Every Great Man . . .
Cosima Wagner, Part 2

James Holbeyfield

CosmiaWagner2

Cosima Wagner by Franz von Lenbach

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Part 2 of 3

Cosima and Richard Wagner were married on August 25, 1870, five weeks after her divorce from Hans von Bülow received final sanction, four years after Minna Planer had died of a heart attack, and seven years and three children after they first fell in love with each other.

Exactly when von Bülow came to understand the full nature of the bond between Cosima and Richard is not known, Read more …

Published: May 22, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Bayreuth Festival, Cosima Wager, Franz Liszt, Hans von Bülow, James Holbeyfield, Ludwig II of Bavaria, North American New Right, originals, Wagner Bicentennial Symposium | 1 Response

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Rage Against the Machine:
A Very American Ring Cycle

The great Wagner Machine--Siegfried and Brunnhilde in Goetterdaemmerung

The great Wagner Machine–Siegfried and Brünnhilde in Götterdämmerung

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It heaves and groans. It shimmies and clicks. One holds one breath during the best parts, hoping it will not malfunction and ruin the whole evening. One fears for the performers, halfway expecting it to devour them.

Published: May 21, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, bad taste, classical music, Jef Costello, Metropolitan Opera, North American New Right, opera, originals, Peter Gelb, Robert Lepage, The Ring Cycle, The Ring of the Nibelung, Wagner Bicentennial Symposium | 3 Responses

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Never Surrender:
Wagner on War & Culture

Richard Widmann

Richard Wagner by Arno Breker, Haus Wahnfried, Bayreuth

Richard Wagner by Arno Breker, Bayreuth

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Not symphonic music, but rather the shattering roar of cannon announced the birth of Richard Wagner on May 22, 1813 in Leipzig. The German kingdom of Saxony had been overrun by the French troops of Napoleon Bonaparte as he made a last-ditch effort to reassert dominance over Europe.[1]

Published: May 21, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, France, Franco-Prussian War, Germany, North American New Right, originals, Richard Widmann, Wagner Bicentennial Symposium, war | 1 Response

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Behind Every Great Man . . .
Cosima Wagner, Part 1

James Holbeyfield

Cosima and Richard Wagner

Cosima and Richard Wagner

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Part 1 of 3

Francesca Gaetana Cosima Liszt was born on Christmas Eve, 1837. Her father was Franz Liszt, the first romantic superstar of music. In addition to being genetic sire to Cosima and her siblings, Liszt was the spiritual father of every celebrated piano virtuoso to follow, and also in a sense, the rock stars of the late 20th century. A critical difference however, was that in contrast to the ’70s silliness that chokes every scene in Ken Russell’s Lisztomania, the real Liszt genuinely was the most talented pianist of his era, Read more …

Published: May 21, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Cosima Wagner, D. H. Lawrence, Ernest Hemingway, female psychology, Franz Liszt, Frieda von Richthofen, Hans von Bülow, James Holbeyfield, North American New Right, originals, Wagner Bicentennial Symposium | Leave a comment

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Wagner as Metapolitical Revolutionary

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Karl Marx reserved a special place of contempt for those he termed “reactionists.” These comprised the alliance that was forming around his time among all classes of people, high-born and low, who aimed to return to a pre-capitalist society. These were the remnants of artisans, aristocrats, landowners, and pastors, who had seen the ravages of industrialism and money-ethics then unfolding. Read more …

Published: May 20, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Houston Stewart Chamberlain, Karl Marx, Kerry Bolton, metapolitics, Mikhail Bakunin, North American New Right, originals, revolution, the Jewish question, Wagner Bicentennial Symposium | 1 Response

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My Wagner Problem—and Ours

James J. O'Meara

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“Your themes — they almost always consist of even values, of half, quarter, eighth notes; they are syncopated and tied, to be sure, but nonetheless persevere in what is often a machinelike, stamping, hammering inflexibility and inelegance. Read more …

Published: May 17, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alain Daniélou, articles, classical music, James J. O'Meara, North American New Right, originals, Traditionalism, Wagner Bicentennial Symposium | Comments closed

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The Monster

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He was an undersized little man, with a head too big for his body — a sickly little man. His nerves were bad. He had skin trouble. It was agony for him to wear anything next to his skin coarser than silk. And he had delusions of grandeur. Read more …

Published: May 16, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, classical music, Deems Taylor, North American New Right, opera, reprints, Wagner Bicentennial Symposium | Comments closed

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Evil Genius:
Constructing Wagner as Moral Pariah, Part 4

Brenton Sanderson

A night at the opera: Adolf Hitler with Winifred Wagner, the daughter-in-law of Richard Wagner

A night at the opera: Adolf Hitler with Winifred Wagner, the daughter-in-law of Richard Wagner

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Part 4 of 4

Wagner and National Socialist Germany

Richard Wagner has long been reviled by Jews as the intellectual and spiritual precursor to Adolf Hitler who, according to William Shirer, once declared: “Whoever wants to understand National Socialist Germany must know Wagner.”[1] Read more …

Published: May 16, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Adolf Hitler, articles, Brenton Sanderson, classical music, commemorations, North American New Right, opera, originals, the Jewish question, the Third Reich, Wagner Bicentennial Symposium | Comments closed

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Wagner Bicentennial Symposium
Evil Genius:
Constructing Wagner as Moral Pariah, Part 3

Brenton Sanderson

Arno Breker, Bust of Richard Wagner

Arno Breker, Bust of Richard Wagner

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Part 3 of 4

Wagner’s Music Dramas as Coded Anti-Semitism

T. W. Adorno and Wagner biographer Robert Gutman began a modern Jewish intellectual tradition Read more …

Published: May 15, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Brenton Sanderson, classical music, commemorations, North American New Right, opera, originals, the Jewish question, Theodor Adorno, Wagner Bicentennial Symposium | Comments closed

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Wagner Bicentennial Symposium
Evil Genius:
Constructing Wagner as Moral Pariah, Part 2

Brenton Sanderson

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Part 2 of 4

Wagner’s Racial Thinking

In addition to his concern about the baleful Jewish influence on German culture, Wagner, under the influence of Darwinism and the French racial theorist Arthur de Gobineau, became increasingly concerned about the fate of the White race generally. Read more …

Published: May 14, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Arthur de Gobineau, articles, biological race differences, Brenton Sanderson, Christianity, classical music, commemorations, North American New Right, opera, originals, the Jewish question, Theodor Adorno, Wagner Bicentennial Symposium | Comments closed

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Wagner Bicentennial Symposium
Evil Genius:
Constructing Wagner as Moral Pariah, Part 1

Brenton Sanderson

Richard Wagner, 1813-1883

Richard Wagner, 1813–1883

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Part 1 of 4

Richard Wagner was a one man artistic and intellectual movement whose shadow fell across all of his contemporaries and most of his successors. Other composers had influence; Wagner had a way of thinking named after him. It has been claimed that “never since Orpheus has there been a musician whose music affected so vitally the life and art of generations.”[1] Read more …

Published: May 13, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Brenton Sanderson, classical music, commemorations, North American New Right, opera, originals, the Jewish question, Theodor Adorno, Wagner Bicentennial Symposium | Comments closed

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Hans-Jürgen Syberberg:
Leni Riefenstahl’s Heir?

Jonathan Bowden

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Published: April 23, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Adolf Hitler, articles, Germany, Hans-Jürgen Syberberg, Hitler: A Film from Germany, Hitler: Ein Film aus Deutschland, Jonathan Bowden, Leni Riefenstahl, movie reviews, North American New Right, originals, Parsifal, the holocaust, white guilt, Winifred Wagner | Comments closed

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Bryan Magee’s The Tristan Chord

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Bryan Magee
The Tristan Chord: Wagner and Philosophy
New York: Metropolitan Books, 2000

Bryan Magee’s The Tristan Chord: Wagner and Philosophy (just Wagner and Philosophy in the UK) combines two of my favorite subjects into an informative, stimulating, and highly readable book. Creativity and critical reflection are two very different activities, and excellence in one is seldom accompanied by excellence in the other. Read more …

Published: April 12, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged anarchism, Arthur Schopenhauer, book reviews, Bryan Magee, classical music, Friedrich Nietzsche, Greg Johnson, Ludwig Feuerbach, North American New Right, opera, originals, Parsifal, philosophy, socialism, the Jewish question, The Ring of the Nibelung, The Tristan Chord, Tristan and Isolde, Wagner Bicentennial Symposium | Comments closed

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Bryan Magee’s Aspects of Wagner

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Bryan Magee
Aspects of Wagner
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988

In preparation for the Wagner bicentennial on May 22, I have been listening to, watching, and reading about Wagner non-stop. But one’s enjoyment of art and ideas is magnified by sharing them with others. So I am going to get you in the Wagner spirit, or drive you crazy trying, Read more …

Published: March 5, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, Bryan Magee, classical music, drama, Greg Johnson, North American New Right, opera, originals, the Jewish question, Wagner Bicentennial Symposium | Comments closed

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Call for Papers
Our Wagner

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Today is the 130th anniversary of Richard Wagner’s death in Venice. May 22, 2013 is the 200th anniversary of Wagner’s birth. To mark this occasion, Counter-Currents/North American New Right will run a symposium on “Our Wagner.” The symposium will consist of essays, reviews, poems, podcasts, and videos on Wagner’s life, work, and ongoing significance for the metapolitical project of the North American New Right and the New Right in general. Read more …

Published: February 13, 2013 | Posted in news item | Also tagged classical music, Greg Johnson, news item, opera, Wagner Bicentennial Symposium | Comments closed

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Revolution from the Periphery:
The Lessons of Nueva Germania

Elisabeth Nietzsche, 1846–1935

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The concept of “Revolution from the Periphery” is an important contribution to Traditionalist thought as once proud centers of culture sink ever further into decadence. The system of control deployed against whites is strengthening its grip, and “the Collapse” is still a dream. If anything, anarcho-tyranny is becoming more widespread, and the forces pushing radical egalitarianism are removing the velvet glove to reveal the mailed fist beneath.

Published: December 19, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Ben Macintyre, Bernhard Förster, Elisabeth Nietzsche, Friedrich Nietzsche, Gregory Hood, honor, living well, national anarchism, North American New Right, Nueva Germania, originals, sustainability, white nationalism, white self-sufficiency | Comments closed

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Yukio Mishima & Richard Wagner:
Art & Politics, or Love & Death

Emi Mann Kawaguchi

The platform of this year’s “Yukoku-Ki,” November 25th, 2012, Tokyo

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The Keynote Speech at the 42nd Yukoku-Ki in Tokyo, November 25, 2012

Translated by Riki Rei

Published: December 17, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged classical music, death, Emi Mann Kawaguchi, Friedrich Nietzsche, Japan, literature, North American New Right, opera, originals, Patriotism, sexuality, suicide, translations, Tristan und Isolde, Yukio Mishima | Comments closed

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The Aryan Christian Religion & Politics of Richard Wagner

Alexander Jacob

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“I am the most German being. I am the German spirit.”[1] — Richard Wagner

Richard Wagner (1813–1883) is today universally celebrated as the consummate exponent of nineteenth century German opera, whose developed Romantic idiom helped to usher in the musical innovations of Modernism in the early twentieth century. Read more …

Published: September 11, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alexander Jacob, Arthur Schopenhauer, articles, Christianity, classical music, Joseph Arthur Comte de Gobineau, monarchism, opera, originals, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, religion, the Aryans, the Jewish question, vegetarianism | Comments closed

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Video of the Day
Furtwängler Conducts Wagner, 1942

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Published: August 14, 2012 | Posted in video of the day | Also tagged classical music, Die Meistersinger, opera, video of the day, videos, Wilhelm Furtwängler | Comments closed

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