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.

RT @FedeItaliano76: French Communist Party Headquarters designed by Oscar Niemeyer (1980)

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

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.

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

RT @designboom: new photographs show @snohetta's shanghai grand opera house take shape 📸

Just as Christianity is contracting in the West and growing in the Far East, classical music's center of gravity is shifting Eastward.

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?

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. ⁦

RT @CatholicSat: Pope Leo XIV on Sacred Polyphony: "Polyphony itself, moreover, is a musical form full of meaning, for prayer and for Chris….

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.

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

RT @catholicpat: We're making pretty churches again, y'all