Playing Music
I enjoy playing the following instruments.
- Guitar
- Mandloin
- Mandola
- Ruan
- Trumpet
- Piano
Good Music
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.
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Rachmaninoff, Bogoroditsye Devo, Raduisya (Rejoice, O Virgin) from All
Night Vigil
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Beethoven's Ninth Symphony
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Bach's Brandenburg Concertos
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Everything Mozart did especially The Marriage of Figaro and Requiem Mass
- Sacred music -- especially Slovanic and Gregorian Chant
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Chesnokov's liturgical music
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The quartet in the last act of Verdi's Rigoletto
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Nessun Dorma-- Puccini's Turandot
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Rachmanininoff's Divine Liturgy
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Russian Liturgical Music
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Italian Opera, especialy Verdi and Puccini
- Everything by Norah Jones
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Everything done by Anonymous 4
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Stockton Gala Days - Natalie Merchant
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Classic Jazz
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Chamber Music
My favorite original score from a film is Cinema Paradiso, music by Ennio
Morricone.
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