What is music for? Join us on the 5th of June as composers Stephen Limbaugh and 𝔐𝔲𝔰𝔦𝔠𝔞 𝔘𝔫𝔦𝔳𝔢𝔯𝔰𝔞𝔩𝔦𝔰 discuss with moderator Andrew Balio of Foundation for the Future of Classical Music whether beauty, form, and spiritual depth can still shape new music.

We're making pretty churches again, y'all

The questions we should should be asking instead of about whether we are relevant.

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.

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

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. ⁦

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. Congress for the New Urbanism INTBAU Léon Krier Wrath Of Gnon

new photographs show Snøhetta's shanghai grand opera house take shape 📸 designboom.com/architecture/p…

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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/…

Shanghai Grand Opera House, designed by Snøhetta, is very much like the design for Oslo's DNO&B 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.

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…

If you need to attend a lecture to realize that a painting is beautiful, it's not beautiful.

French Communist Party Headquarters designed by Oscar Niemeyer (1980)

Political iconoclasm often attacks art and the great works of beauty and piety. Western Classical Music was similarly but temporarily eradicated in Mao's China under his Cultural Revolution. Yet it was reborn out of love for something speaking from beyond what a bleak

Vietnam is embarking on a grand project to join the ranks of major classical music venues by way of its Music Island, in Hanoi's West Lake region. It will comprise both an opera house and a concert hall. As always in Asia, the effort is to assert the futuristic over the art forms

The Opera House of Kharkiv has become its city's bomb shelter and cathedral of hope, by way of performances in its basement. //www.csmonitor.com/layout/set/amphtml/World/Europe/2025/0801/ukraine-national-opera-underground-russia