FNP: EARLY MAO OPERA DISCOVERED

Faux News Press (FNP)_Washington, D.C.:

NEWS BRIEF

FNP has learned that German musicologists have discovered a vault in China that contained a collection of Mao Tze-Tung memorabilia from his post-college years preceding the communist revolution that overturned the Masonic republic. In these years Mao was developing his Marxist views.

Surprisingly, Mao Tze-Tung first intellectual love appeared to be opera. He clearly studied the Italian and French masters, as there were very early attempts at opera creation in the Italian style. However, melody was not as important a musical inspiration for Mao as discordance. Even in these early years after college, Mao appeared to love the clash of marching sounds in combat furious.

The German expert, Professor Esau Kochen, who led the team of musical experts that examined the first vault, expressed the view that Mao was not so much a musical genius as a musical general. He stated that Mao’s early works were instructive in developing a better understanding of his evolving socialist world-view.

As an example of one of the early Mao operas, Professor Kochen cited “Revolutionary Peasant-Farmers Rise Up and Smash the Capitalist Pig Peasant-Farmers.” According to the professor, this opera, using broad, clashing movements of discordant sounds, captured the essential elements later realized as the Cultural Revolution. This was formative work by the young Marxist giant. However, it contained the essential Mao dictum: “The high C alone is Bonapartist.”

FNP has been advised by German sources close to the Kochen group that the German team, including Dr. Heim Hirsh, Professor Helen Roth, and the Russian expatriot, Dr. Ivan Putinshtern, have been invited to spend the next three years in China as guests of the People’s Republic. The Chinese Cultural Minister, Ju-Man Nao, had advised them that there were many suspected “Mao vaults” hidden throughout China. He said that unknown cultural richness only awaited its being discovered to perhaps “change the world with Mao’s songs.”