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Join us as we explore the life and work of German composer Hans Werner Henze. Contributors include David Pountney, Lothar Koenigs, Gavin Plumley and Tim Burke.

Reflections on Henze

Track 03 - The Characters And Costumes  - The Magic Flute

Black Christmas by High Contrast

Black Friday; Black Christmas; Black Jesus; Black Witness.

Let us feast. Gorge ourselves. May we choke on it. Everybody consume and forget about those outside of your room.

There will be no more white Christmases, long as they don't listen to eye witnesses.

The nights will no longer be silent, while the days are still violent.

As the world burns, the pig on the spit turns.

Shop 'til you drop or get killed by a cop.

Black Christmas.
All is lost, all is blight.
Black Christmas.
All is lost, all is blight.

Wall Street was a slave market before it was the stock market, Lehman Brothers, JP Morgan Chase, Brooks Brothers, Princeton, Lloyds of London, The Bank of England, The Church of England - all profited from the trade of African slaves. Think about the presents you buy and by whom they were made.

The nativity scene in Bethlehem, today the site of dead Palestinians.

Saying there's no room at the inn and closing borders is the same damn thing.

Black Christmas.
Terror on earth, good kill to all men.
Black Christmas.
Terror on earth, good kill to all men.

Hugo Boss, Kodak, VW, IBM, Nestle, Siemens, Bayer, Standard Oil, Ford Motors, Chase Bank, Coca-Cola, all did business with Nazi Germany under Adolf Hitler.

Merry Christmas.

Song Four - Black Christmas by High Contrast

Alek Shrader performs the third and final song of Iain Bell's cycle of J.W. Streets' World War One poetry 'The Undying Splendour'.

The Undying Splendour III. Gallipolli

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Mae Opera Cenedlaethol Cymru yn trawsffurfio bywydau trwy bŵer opera. Rydym yn angerddol am opera ac eisiau rhannu’r angerdd yma gyda chymaint o bobl ag sydd bosib. Rydym yn gwneud hwn gyda pherfformiadau gwobrwyol o operâu llwyfan-llawn a chyngherddau sy’n clymu antur gyda’r ansawdd gorau posib. Rydym yn cadw ein perfformiadau yn hygyrch drwy docynnau fforddiadwy. Tu hwnt i’r theatr, rydym yn cysylltu â phobl trwy ein gwaith cymuned a phrosiectau digidol.

Track 03 - The Characters And Costumes - The Magic Flute

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