“Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.”
― Gustav Mahler
We believe that the arts transcend mere entertainment or hollow intellectualism, serving as a profound vessel to shape hearts and minds, inspire heroism and virtue, and safeguard the dual flames of tradition and progress.
In order to return the arts to their central role in the culture and in the lives of the common person, our mission is to hold accessible public events that honor tradition, keeping one foot firmly planted in the past while reaching forward with the other toward a future of even greater beauty and excellence.
The Arts have an incredible power of edification for those who experience them, and with this power comes the responsibility to represent, honestly and without pretense, those truths of both the highest and most personal natures.
Beauty in the modern world cannot be the antithesis of ugliness, destitution, and suffering, but rather their embrace and transformation. The Arts must be a means of clothing the human condition, with its great depths of sorrow and heights of ecstasy, in a Beauty that points to something greater.
To Aristotle, rhetoric was "the ability, in each case, to see all of the available means of persuasion." The Arts should, rather than obsessing over high concept, speak directly to the public with such pursuasion that none are left unmoved.