frustrationPlate 629 · Charlottesville, United States

Monticello

A Palladian house of a man who wrote liberty and held people.

1809 · Thomas Jefferson · North America

The chamber score

Adagio for Strings

Samuel Barber · 1936

Memorial weather. The country keeps borrowing it.

An original chamber arrangement in the climate of the work. The recording is not a copy. It is the room answering.

Why it is here

Jefferson's plantation house, UNESCO, among America's most important and most argued-over houses.

Commission the full chamber

This monument is in the atlas. The rebuild can be written for you.

Ask the studio to reconstruct Monticello through frustration — or shift it into another corridor.

Open a commission

Shift the feeling

What if Monticello was rebuilt as something else?

Ask the architect

One question. Stay in the room.