Originally a new hall proposed for the London Symphony, this project was canceled to the dismay of London’s musical community. FFCM brings together the best and brightest architects to revisit and revive this idea to address this persistent need.| The Foundation for the Future of Classical Music
Willful desecration is also a denial of love – an attempt to remake the world as though love were no longer a part of it. And that, surely, is the most important characteristic of the postmodern culture: it is a loveless culture, determined to portray the human world as unlovable. The modern stage director who ransacks the works of Mozart is trying to tear the love from the heart of them, so as to confirm his own vision of the world as a place where only pleasure and pain are real.| The Foundation for the Future of Classical Music
The history of music proceeds from Bach, through Haydn, Beethoven, Wagner, Mahler, and then via Schoenberg and Webern to Stockhausen and me. All else is irrelevant. —Pierre Boulez More of this type of cultural warfare can be found in Orientations (Harvard University Press, 1986). It is the core idea of modernism: music history as one single line […]| The Foundation for the Future of Classical Music
The project of European high modernism in music has not looked kindly on "insular" rummaging forays into local folk music, especially on the Celtic fringe. The very localism of this instinct is an affront to the cosmopolitan sophistication which the international avant-garde was to develop over time.| The Foundation for the Future of Classical Music
Wine for Beethoven was symbolic. It was something that would bring everyone around the table to eat and drink and be equals.| The Foundation for the Future of Classical Music
The observation is often made that political conservatives do not have anything much to say about the arts, but that is not the whole truth.| The Foundation for the Future of Classical Music
Revolution has been the slogan and banner for generations of creative idealists. But they seem more concerned with a love of transgression than of life.| The Foundation for the Future of Classical Music
Counterpoint in music is like rhyme in poetry: it holds disparate things together in a unity, and at the same time it shows that unity is not simple but composed.| The Foundation for the Future of Classical Music
Modernity consists of perversions of notions drawn from Christianity; to be a modern means to be deeply enmeshed in them.| The Foundation for the Future of Classical Music
It is an important book because it brings to the consideration of musical matters the indispensable examination of philosophy.| The Foundation for the Future of Classical Music