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Roger Scruton's Locra Songs: Cancion de Jinete

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On October 1, 2020, the University of Buckingham and the University of Public Service co-hosted the online conference, "Educating the Soul through Art: the Political and Aesthetical Legacy of Sir Roger Scruton's Work."

The final session of the conference featured a pre-recorded performance of Scruton's Three Locra Songs by pianist Katalin Csillagh and vocalist Kristi Bryson. These three songs set poems by the Spanish poet Federico García Lorca, who disappeared, almost certainly murdered by the Nationalist forces, during the Spanish civil war. The second of the three, Canción de Jinete (Song of the Rider), describes a little black horse, carrying its dead rider through the night, under the 'black moon of highwaymen'. There is a smell of knife wounds, a jangling of spurs against the horse's flank, and finally a cry, as the horse arrives beside the distant camp-fire.
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