Music

I enjoy playing the following instruments.

• • Guitar

  • Mandloin

  • Trumpet

  • Piano

Here are some pieces of music that I like very much. I shall not classify them except for the classification made by Louis Armstrong -- there are only two kinds of music: good and bad.

• • Favorite Opera: La Boheme

  • Rachmaninoff, Bogoroditsye Devo, Raduisya (Rejoice, O Virgin) from All Night Vigil

  • Beethoven's Ninth Symphony

  • Beethoven's Third, Fifth and Seventh Symphony

  • Bach's Brandenburg Concertos

  • Va, pensiero from Nabucco.

  • Everything Mozart did especially The Marriage of Figaro and Requiem Mass

  • Sacred music -- especially Slovanic and Gregorian Chant

  • Chesnokov's liturgical music

  • The quartet in the last act of Rigoletto

  • Nessun Dorma-- Puccini's Turandot

  • Rachmanininoff's Divine Liturgy

  • Russian Liturgical Music

  • Italian Opera, especialy Puccini and Verdi

  • Everything by Norah Jones

  • Everything done by Anonymous 4

  • Natalie Merchant

  • Classic Jazz

  • Chamber Music

  • My favorite original score from a film is Cinema Paradiso, music by Ennio Morricone.

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