Foundation for the Future of Classical Music
@FutureSymphony
A think tank, assembled from the best among us, orchestrating a renaissance for classical music. Philosophy, architecture,the sacred, Meta-Luxury & cup holders.
And it is in the shadow of this Fourth Industrial Revolution that classical music will have to find its way as a unique pinnacle of human activity that cannot be reduced by technological innovations.
Pope Leo XIV explains his choice of name: "... I chose to take the name Leo XIV. There are different reasons for this, but mainly because Pope Leo XIII in his historic Encyclical Rerum Novarum addressed the social question in the context of the first great industrial revolution.…
If you need to attend a lecture to realize that a painting is beautiful, it's not beautiful.
new photographs show @snohetta's shanghai grand opera house take shape 📸 designboom.com/architecture/p…
Just as Christianity is contracting in the West and growing in the Far East, classical music's center of gravity is shifting Eastward. economist.com/asia/2025/04/1…
Shanghai Grand Opera House, designed by @snohetta, is very much like the design for Oslo's @Operaen opera house. Grand architecture-as-sculpture like this reveal a viewpoint about the art form of opera itself as it is about a vision for what leaders desire for their communities.…
Wimbledon ditched its sharp-looking line judges for robots. Why would this move offend our sense of authenticity and love of endeavors of unique human flourishing? wsj.com/sports/tennis/…
nypost.com/2025/07/02/opi…
With the passing of Leon Krier, we are posting his first of many contributions to our work together at FFCM. The Myth of Progress: The intersection of classical music and architecture; his views on traditional concert hall design. @NewUrbanism @INTBAU @LeonKrier @wrathofgnon…
It is with great sadness that we report the passing of legendary architect and urban planner, Lèon Krier, one of our founding research fellows. He deeply cared about the plight of classical music and remarked that he had more piano sheet music than books about architecture.
Pope Leo XIV on Sacred Polyphony: "Polyphony itself, moreover, is a musical form full of meaning, for prayer and for Christian life. First of all, in fact, it is inspired by the Sacred Text, which it aims to "clothe with appropriate melody" (Inter sollicitudines, 1) so that it…
We hope you will join us this Thursday online to talk about New Music within the classical genre.. Its will be a chance to get it all off your chest.
What is music for? Join us on the 5th of June as composers @StephenLimbaugh and @Musica11235 discuss with moderator Andrew Balio of @FutureSymphony whether beauty, form, and spiritual depth can still shape new music.
The questions we should should be asking instead of about whether we are relevant.
How many court composers does Elon Musk employ? Who is the director musices in your parish? When did your city council last appoint a Pictor Regis or Hofmaler? Doesn't everything strike you as lacking, these days?
What is music for? Join us on the 5th of June as composers @StephenLimbaugh and @Musica11235 discuss with moderator Andrew Balio of @FutureSymphony whether beauty, form, and spiritual depth can still shape new music.
“If you care about the reality of goodness instead of the perception of it, philanthropy is extremely difficult.” – Elon Musk
We encourage everyone to help create something extraordinary: 'The Euterpides', by "the girl who is revolutionizing music" Alma Deutscher's first ballet, in a landmark collaboration with American Contemporary Ballet. @OrchLeague @rbo_org @ENBallet #Ballet…
The cinematic future is bright thecritic.co.uk/issues/august-…
Some appropriate Easter music - from the prologue of Bach’s St Matthew passion. A wonderful polyphonic tapestry. Orchestra, dialogue b/w sections of the choir, and in addition a boy’s choir. The boys sing ‘O Lamm Gottes unschuldig, am Stamm des Kreuzes geschlactet’ (innocent lamb…
city-journal.org/article/metrop… Wokeness has ruined the Metropolitan Opera. I practically lived there as a teenager -- during one winter vacation I bought standing room tickets for every evening performance as well as the Saturday matinee (Tebaldi in "La Gioconda," Nilsson in "Walkuere"…