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In our time of democratized culture and inelegant self-absorption, we often miss the magic of the great classics. Nothing raises our spirits and refines our souls as much as the works of the masters. But that takes time to appreciate and the attraction of imaginative presentation.
It has been ten years now that a group of remarkably creative people and visionary business and community leaders came together to bring the masterworks of our civilization to the broad public. That music is the soundtrack of our human progress. It must never be lost in the din of the modern world and our obsession with immediate gratification.