Future Symphony Institute

Wine for Beethoven was symbolic. It was something that would bring everyone around the table to eat and drink and be equals.

“Now we shall get rid of the weight of dead men’s thought, which has hitherto pressed so heavily on the living intellect.”

I remember seeing the Indian women with babies wrapped about them quietly contemplating Beethoven’s 7th.

Do we really want to hear Beethoven’s Fifth as it was heard at its premiere?

What do amateurs glean from a week spent inundated by one piece of music?

Dave once asked me, “Why do you guys care if your audience is so old? That’s your niche.”

“A momentary illusion of having really got hold of what is the matter with modernity.”

Many have argued that music lifts man to higher levels of mutual understanding and binds people together.

You often hear the expression “film music” used pejoratively. “It’s just film music.”

It feels like many hours in a dentist’s chair from which you cannot escape.

What we could do in the face of the upheaval and heartbreak of a city in turmoil?

Music is not an occupation but a celebration of something beyond itself.