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Recognizing that Classical Music has implied White Supremacy for centuries is hard for those that study the art form. In fact, that correlating The Met’s continued programming of dead white men to the rise of White Supremacist tendencies in America is not a far stretch is starting to become apparent to those that follow and review the company’s season announcements. Of course Italian Opera traditions are rich and are the backbone for many composers, but when an American institution, founded on the grounds

Feticide, the Supreme Court and South Dakota Deacon Keith Fournier © Third Millennium, LLC Introduction Two events of great importance have taken center stage in the past week. We live in what Pope Benedict XVI called in his first encyclical letter an “anti-culture” of death. This is a slight - but important- nuanced variance in terminology from the past reference to a “culture of death” used by his predecessor of blessed memory, that great champion of life, John Paul II. Pope Benedict will not even call it a “culture” of death. He is correct. The acceptance of the notion that...

I don't know for sure when this was first published, but I found in the archives at Oregon Magazine; it's a hoot! PBS is so low-brow! Much Ado About Nothing: PBS Airs New Production of La Bohemeby Plato Hamburger, Drama Editor of The Peg's Bottom GazetteA new production of La Boheme, the story of a French embroidery heroine lost in an Italian opera by Puccini (pronounced pooch-eenie) was aired on PBS....For those of you who were lucky enough not to tune in, and so are unfamiliar with the piece, it is, next to Days of Our Lives and All My...