As I say in the podcast, up until recently I was unaware of the historical betrayal of the Jews by the Zionist movement, both world wide and in Germany, during World War II. Since the late 50’s the Zionists have cloaked themselves in the Holocaust, founded the Vad Yashem Holocaust Museum in Israel and shout “Holocaust, Holocaust, Holocaust!” at any attempt to stop their land grabbing and genocide in Gaza.

But, as you learn, if you listen to the podcast, this was not always so. Strange as it seems, the Zionists actually welcomed the Holocaust which they openly said at the time, was an engine to force the Jews of Europe to go to Israel and build the Jewish state by fighting the Arabs who had been there for centuries.

To that end they entered into negotiations with the Nazi Party despite the fact that England, the colonial ruler of Palestine at the time, refused to let all but a trickle of Jewish refugees into the “Holy Land”. In exchange for the Nazi’s cooperation, the Zionists helped round up Jews for deportation to the death camps among other atrocities.

I hope I have whetted your appetite to hear the whole sorry story. Please listen to the podcast. Hopefully it will give you insight as to why Israel is the state it has become.

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UPDATE: An Israeli Defense Force database shows that 83% of those killed in Gaza were civilians. This puts Israel right up there with Rwanda and the Nazis. The database figures were released by news organizations the day after war criminal and felon Netanyahu went around claiming the ratio was around 1 civilian for every militant killed.

The current genocide that Israel and the United States are carrying out in Gaza against the Palestinian people is the cutting edge event of our day. This podcast goes into the root causes of this event and also depicts the role of the CIA in it. As a Jewish American I feel I have a special obligation to expose Israel’s actions lest they be seen as the actions of Jews everywhere instead of those of a nazi-like Jewish supremicist Apartheid state.

One thing that didn’t make the podcast was the use of the words “subhuman” or “human animals” to falsely describe the Palestinians. These words have been used by members of the Israeli government and even by some American congressmen and could not be a more direct way of showing the connection between Israel and its apologists with the Nazis and other genocidal governments throughout history. In the podcast I make clear other parallels of this nature.

— Roger

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The current genocide that Israel and the United States are carrying out in Gaza against the Palestinian people is the cutting edge event of our day. This podcast goes into the root causes of this event and also depicts the role of the CIA in it. As a Jewish American I feel I have a special obligation to expose Israel’s actions lest they be seen as the actions of Jews everywhere instead of those of a nazi-like Jewish supremicist Apartheid state.

One thing that didn’t make the podcast was the use of the words “subhuman” or “human animals” to falsely describe the Palestinians. These words have been used by members of the government and even by some American congressmen and could not be a more direct way of showing the connection between Israel and its apologists with the Nazis and other genocidal governments throughout history. In the podcast I make clear other parallels of this nature.

— Roger

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Dear friends,'

Have you seen my free movie "Conspiracy" yet? The movie has been accepted at 16 film festivals so far. It concerns the JFK assassination, Watergate and the death of Marilyn Monroe. In each the CIA played an important role. With the release of over 77,000 documents from that period, with the redactions removed, we see that the CIA and FBI knew a great deal about Oswald and were tracking his movements long before the Kennedy assassination day. They lied about this to the Warren commission and to subsequent congressional inquiries.

I go into this in more detail in my podcast 'The CIA and the murder of John F. Kennedy' which you can listen to above.

To view the free Conspiracy movie click here.

Meanwhile, the attempt to ethnically cleanse Gaza and the genocide against the Palestinian people continues unabated. The latest assault is an attempt to starve them to death. Over 33,000 children have been murdered by the insane right-wing Israeli government with the full support of the Israeli people with weapons supplied by our government, both Democrats and Republicans.

This cannot help but remind me of the original genocide carried out by the Nazis against the Jews of Europe. Tragically, the same silence prevails by the corporate and CIA controlled main stream media today as it did during the original Holocaust.

During that time even the major Jewish leaders, who knew about the Shoah, kept silent supposedly not wanting to provoke American anti-semitism or embarrass President Roosevelt who had several notable anti-semites in his cabinet. Zionist organizations played a big role in hushing up the Holocaust and preventing Jews from going to the United States and Britain since their focus was getting them to go to Palestine to build the nascent state of Israel. As a result few Jews fleeing Hitler were admitted to the U.S. And shamefully the rail lines to the concentration camps were never cut. lnstead, our bombers were tasked with dropping bombs on German civilians in a failed attempt to demoralize them.

As a Jewish person who was educated in the Zionist system I became aware that Zionism is a supremacist system like that formerly used in South Africa and whose purpose is to destroy and/or segregate the indigenous peoples (in this case the Palestinians) in order for fanatical settlers to grab their land.

More on this is in an upcoming podcast including my individual path from Zionism to opposition to Zionism.

Meanwhile, I urge you to protest Israel's genocide in Gaza with U.S. supplied weapons and the terror attacks on Iran by Israel and Trump. Support the organizations resisting this like Jewish Voice for Peace, an organization of Jews for a just peace in the Middle East and open to people of all faiths. Urge your Congressman and any organizations you belong to help stop this genocide.

Regards,

Roger

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Henry Purcell lived in England during the 17th century period known as the Restoration. He was born just forty years after Shakespeare died and composed over 800 works many of which are sublime. He died at the age of 36.

In addition to history and analysis this podcast contains several examples of his music which you may not have heard. He composed just one opera, Dido and Aeneas, but he also created many “semi-operas” for the theater to be performed as part of plays including A Midsummer Night’s Dream (The Fairy Queen) and The Tempest of Shakespeare. These, plus his Odes to Saint Cecilia constitute a major achievement in music of all time.

The greatest recording of the Odes I have found is by The Collegium Vocale Gent and Phillipe Herreweghe. The best recording of Dido and Aeneas I think is by the Scholars who also have recorded a number of Purcell’s semi-operas all on original instruments. There is also a two volume compendium of Purcell’s operatic works by John Eliot Gardiner that is quite good and includes the bulk of his theater semi-operas and masques.

I also urge you to listen to John Blow’s Ode on the Death of Henry Purcell; Blow was Purcell’s teacher and his appreciation of the composer is spot on as well as being a superior piece of music in and of itself.

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Tar, which has won and been nominated for numerous awards, looks at the career of a fictional female, lesbian conductor who has made it big in the competitive world of the symphony orchestra. Like her mentor Leonard Bernstein she has won awards for conducting, classical compositions and musicals. However the seductiveness of her powerful position undermines her.

As a drama Tar succeeds well with an outstanding performance by Cate Blanchett as the eponymous protagonist. But this movie, a rare look at the classical music world, also provides a message about the state of classical music today. It is this aspect of that I deal with in this podcast. Hint: it’s not saying anything good.

To hear my music and learn more about me as a composer of modern classical music visit my revamped site: https://rogerrudensteinmusic.com

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The Orville is a Star Trek type show produced by Seth McFarlane, the creator of Family Guy. In this look at the far future how did classical music fare? Not well I’m afraid. In this podcast I go over how the commercialization of music has affected classical music by preventing a viable succession to the music of the past (Beethoven, Bach, etc.) by perverting taste and denying a musical education to the ordinary citizen.

I also talk about what can be done about this situation today and provide some advice to those who are currently modern classical composers.

Please visit my newly renovated website at https://rogerrudensteinmusic.com for my musical bio and free examples of my music so you can see where I’m coming from.

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The saga continues. In this podcast I go into what atonalism and serialism are and how the ideology grew up around them designating these techniques as the future of classical music in the Twentieth Century. I talk about the philosopher/social critic Theodore Adorno and his still relevant critique of the commercialization of music which lead to the lionizing and exploitation of trivial music which he designated “bourgeois”. Unfortunately his antidote was to push intentionally ugly music that drove the audience out of the concert hall and stopped the forward momentum of a great art form.

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Who would have thought that a nation founded to be a beacon of liberty and freedom would enter a period where the secret police would have a significant influence on cultural life? Starting in the nineteen fifties the CIA clandestinely began a cultural war with the Soviet Union in order to undermine its influence among leading intellectuals in the West. This podcast tells the story of what happened with an emphasis on how the CIA set out to extend its influence to the world of classical music, contributing to the fall of classical music as a dynamic developing art form.

Note: The music preceding and ending the podcast is new music composed by Roger Rudenstein and performed by the NOR Orchestra none of which has any relation to the CIA.

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This podcast concerns arguably the greatest musical work ever created: The Mass in B-minor by Johann Sebastian Bach.

Surprisingly many classical aficionados have not listened to it.

The work could also be called “Bach’s Greatest Hits” as many of the sections had already been composed and some played prior to being assembled in the “Mass”. It is not a traditional mass as many sections such as the Kyrie are repeated with different music. It is thought to have been an attempt by Bach, a Protestant, to curry favor with the newly appointed Catholic officials in his part of Germany.

I also talk about Bach’s place in the musical firmament of his time (not big) and of his eclipse following his death not to be revived until late in the 19th Century by Felix Mendelssohn.

You can hear perhaps the best recording of this work free on YouTube by the Netherlands Bach Society utilizing period instruments in almost the right proportion (I talk about what the original instrumentation was in the podcast).

Here it is:

Coming up next on this podcast: The CIA’s Role in Classical Music.

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