Tomorrow begins year LX, Anno Satanas. The departing year brought the loss of three of my very dear friends—two, who were members of our hierarchy, and another, an atheist who felt that if he had to define a specific philosophy for himself, he was inclined to see Satanism as a worthy possibility. As we age, the passing of those who play many roles in our lives is always sobering, for we Satanists never cease to be conscious of our mortality, even as our activities and relationships establish legacies that might touch others in a positive manner. In our ephemerality, we […]
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Vox Satanae – Episode 212 – The Scherzo – 145 Minutes – Week of 27 October 2014 This is a very special episode curated by our own Magus Peter H. Gilmore. An aural odyssey from joyous celebrations of vital existence to spectral dances of madness. In this journey highlighting the development of the symphonic scherzo, we feature works by Ludwig van Beethoven, Antonín Dvořák, Sergei Prokofiev, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Jean Sibelius, Aram Khachaturian, Sir Edward Elgar, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Aaron Copland, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Bernard Herrmann, Don Gillis, Anton Bruckner, Dmitri Shostakovich, Gustav Mahler, and John Corigliano.