Wine for Beethoven was symbolic. It was something that would bring everyone around the table to eat and drink and be equals.
Spotlight on
Sir Roger Scruton
Classical music has lost its greatest living advocate – and we, personally, have lost a very dear friend. His spirit and his thoughts, however, will live forever.
New & Noteworthy

Think
Philosophy
Because we know enough to know that we should start by putting First Things first.
Build
Architecture
Getting it right means understanding that in every community there needs to be a place for music. And that music is a part of placemaking.
Help us
Orchestrate a Renaissance
It begins with ideas and grows from the heart. But it doesn’t catch fire until we all jump in.
Education

Craft
Composition
The craft at the heart of our tradition – and at the center of some very heated arguments.
Business

Remember
Roots
Because to know where you’re going you’ve gotta know where you’ve been.
Just for Fun
The Renaissance
The time is now. Again.
This age of ours has let fall, bit by bit, things of more value than anything else in the whole world.
—Petrarch, father of the Renaissance, 1341