Stumbled back on my reblog of this today. Yes, Scruton: what an immense gift. He kindly wrote me an affirming handwritten letter in response to some of my music I sent him. It was precious then, but I couldn't have imagined we'd lose him so soon after.
Anyway - glad to remember that so many others love him. He was critically informative for me as a young intellectual and artist - maybe to my career's detriment, as I often playfully say! But people are getting very hungry for beauty now more than ever with everything going on.