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March 3, 2021
David Matthews - Thoughts from a Life: Opera as an Art
Music was an essential part of Roger Scruton’s life. He learned the piano as a boy, and as an adult acquired the profound technical knowledge that enabled him to write The Aesthetics of Music, widely recognized as the most important book in its field. He also wrote two books of essays on music, and three magisterial books on Wagner – Death Devoted Heart (on Tristan und Isolde), The Ring of Truth, and his final book, Wagner’s Parsifal: The Music of Redemption. He taught himself to compose (with a...
March 1, 2021
News from Scrutopia - 1st March 2021
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January 31, 2021
BBBBC Recommendations Update 30 Jan 21
Local communities will be at the heart of plans to make sure that new developments in their area are beautiful and well-designed, under proposals outlined by Housing Secretary Rt Hon Robert Jenrick MP today (30 January 2021)
We are pleased to read that Building Better Building Beautiful Commission recommendations have been taken up by the government in its formal response which can be found here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/all-new-developments-must-meet-local-standards-of-beauty-qual...
January 29, 2021
News from Scrutopia - 29th January 2021
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Jesus College Obituary, Stephen Heath - Jan 21
Perhaps one of the finest obituaries to have been written which has appeared in the Jesus College Cambridge Annual Review, 2020 by Stephen Heath, whom we didn’t know, but who clearly followed Roger’s work closely. Thanks to Professor Heath’s article, Roger has been made to feel at home in Cambridge. You can read the obituary here.
Jesus College Obituary, Stephen Heath.
Perhaps one of the finest obituaries to have been written which has appeared in the Jesus College Cambridge Annual Review, 2020 by Stephen Heath, whom we didn’t know, but who clearly followed Roger’s work closely. Thanks to Professor Heath’s article, Roger has been made to feel at home in Cambridge. You can read the obituary in the online version of the Annual Review pp. 144-147 here.
January 26, 2021
Stephen Blackwood - Thoughts from a Life: On the Importance of 'Bunking'
It is easy enough to point out the incoherence of the radicals: the layers of reflexive ideology, senseless iconoclasm, ignorance, and inherently unfulfillable demands. And point them out we should.
But then what?
No merely critical standpoint can build, let alone ‘conserve’ anything. One can lament the fire ravaging Notre Dame, but a dislike of fire confers exactly none of the knowledge required to build—or indeed, rebuild—that magnificent monument of Western culture. For that, you need arc...
January 25, 2021
Daniel Hannan in The Sunday Telegraph
A year ago today, I was in Malmesbury Abbey, the gaunt, half-ruined resting place of England’s first king. It was the day of Roger Scruton’s funeral, and philosophers and prime ministers from around the world had descended on the ancient wool town to honour him, as conspicuous in their grandeur as the Magi at Bethlehem.
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January 15, 2021
Remembering Roger Scruton - RSLF online memorial event
On January 12, 2021, the Roger Scruton Legacy Foundation hosted Remembering Roger Scruton, an online memorial event marking the one-year anniversary of Scruton's passing.
'Scruton in Eastern Europe', the event's first session, explored Scruton's work leading underground seminars in then Czechoslovakia with guest speakers Jessica Douglas-Home, Chairman of the Mihai Eminescu Trust, and Dr. Barbara Day MBE, former Executive Director of the Jan Hus Educational Foundation, led by moderator Marion Sm...
Tradition and Change – Scruton’s Philosophy – Online Conference
All lectures will also be steamed live directly to YouTube at https://youtu.be/MJsECenXg3k.
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