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Easier to say what music I don't like, which is hip-hop and grand opera. I respect the hip-hop stars: they are proving something a lot of people like, and there is evident growth and change in the field with a variety of different styles defined. I just happen to need melody with my beat. Grand opera is an acquired taste I simply haven't acquired. I recognize it can be splendid, but I haven't time to listen to everything I like now, let alone add another flavor to the mix.
Like VivaldiRules, I love chamber music and baroque music, and will happily listen to Telemann for hours. If I had to pick a favorite classical composer, it would probably be Mozart, with Beethoven next in line.
I love rock, and in interest in what influenced rock musicions led me to folk, blues, R&B, country and western, and jazz. In the process, I've accumulated about 1,500 albums.
My favorite musician is British singer/songwriter/guitrist Richard Thompson, the only rock musician I know who has written songs about ice cream (Hokey-Pokey) and roller coasters (Wall of Death), as well as terrorists (Pavanne) and psychpaths (Shoot Out the Lights). His lullaby to his kids, The End of the Rainbow, is one of the two most beautiful songs I know. (The other is John Dowland's Greensleeves.) I play it seldom, because that sort of beauty makes me cry.
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Dennis
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