In May of 1993, Louis Farrakhan staged a recital of the Violin Concerto by composer Felix Mendelssohn in one of the most politically-resonant displays in classical music history. In a performance marking the most dramatic confluence of art and politics since Richard Wagner penned his notorious tract, 'Das Judenthum in der Music', Farrakhan instantly established himself as the single most transformative classical musician in American history. For the 18 months leading up to his performance, Farrakhan was coached by Elaine Skorodin Fohrman, a Jewish violin virtuoso and member of Chicago's Roosevelt University where she taught classical violin. Farrakhan's first rendition of the violin concerto occurred as part of a three-day symposium, 'Gateways: Classical Music and the Black Musician' , at the Reynold's Auditorium in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, on 18 April 1993. Shortly thereafter, Farrakhan reprised his violin concerto before a Chicago audience of 3000 on May 17 on his eighteenth-century Guadagnini violin.
This hypnotic December 1964 spectacle of Malcolm X delivering such a magnificent defence of Black manhood before a predominantly white audience in the Western world’s most elite educational establishment, Oxford University ~ and receiving such a rapturous response in return ~ is the clearest proof of Malcolm’s identity as the long-awaited Messiah of the entire Human race. If Malcolm could generate this kind of response at Oxford, just think of what he would have accomplished throughout (1) the rest of Western Europe and (2) the Middle East, Africa, Asia, Latin America and the wider world had he not been murdered by the criminal, Elijah Muhammad.
Forget Indiana Jones & the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, clear out your hard drives and brace yourselves for the real summer blockbuster of 2008. In the download of the millennium my full 1998 Middle East interview with Minister Louis Farrakhan is preceded by 'Ministry of Rage' - a 2hr 50min experimental, paradigm-shattering, non-narrative avante garde epic. Featuring the 1995 Million Man March, the Joe Lieberman/Farrakhan rapprochement, 1996 Farrakhan World Tour, Michael Jackson trial, the Libyan/N.O.I. "Billion Dollar" affair, Malcolm X, the British Farrakhan ban, the infamous 1994 A.D.L. memo and a head-spinning array of other topics, this spectacular DivX motion picture is the most comprehensive film of its kind ever made about Minister Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam.
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