The music list below, put together in the winter of 2002, is an attempt to define, to give expression to, what has become for me a vast sea of pleasureable sounds produced in a number of genres of music since my first memories of listening to music in about 1948, over half a century ago. What appears here is just a start. The nearly 100 items I had listed by the vernal equinox of 2002 could be added to easily. If I continued this exercise, a list too long to be manageable would be produced.

Most of the items listed here are in my personal music collection or I have access to as part of the LSA of the Baha’is of Launceston's file of CDs. My aim here is partly to help me recall the names of the pieces of music; partly to have these names easily accessible when desired and partly out of simple personal interest with no practical aim at all. As I began gathering material from what I heard on ABC FM Radio and adding it to my list, it was obvious that, in the end, the list would become too long and so what is found here serves as what you might call ‘a starting position’ to a formal collection that has ended, but to a list of musical favorites that I could never bring to an end. -Ron Price, Pioneering Over Four Epochs, 22 September 2002.

A. CLASSICAL

1. The Lord's Prayer, Mahelia Jackson
2. Sonata #8 opus 13 and Violin Concerto in D, Opus 61:Beethoven
3. Symphonies: set 1-9; Piano Sonatas 23/4; Piano Concerto #5--Beethoven
4. Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini, Rachmaninov
5. Preludes, Opus 23, Rachmaninov; Piano Concerto No.2 D Minor
6. Several Other pieces by Rachmaninov: to be defined
7. Scertsos 1,2,3 and 4 ; Ballads 1 to4: Chopin
8. Ave Maria; symphony #8 in B minor: Schubert
9. One Fine Day, Madame Butterfly, Puccini
10. The Elgar Cello Concerto, 1st Movement, J. du Pre
11. Symphony No.2 Eminor, Bach
12. Many other pieces by Bach--20 record collection--to be defined.
13. Claire de Lune, Debussy
14. Mozart: Sonatas for Piano; 3 Divertimenti for strings, Adagio & Fugue in C Minor
15. Mozart: Piano concertos K488/459; symphony #40 in C minor; Nachtmusik
16. Vivaldi, Violin Concerto #3; trumpet concertos' concerti for 4 violins
17. Hector Berlioz: Symphony Fantastique
18. Liszt: Concerto No.1 in E Flat Major
19. Hayden: Concerto in D. Major
20. New World Symphony; symphony #3; cello concerto in b minor, op.104; symphonic variations: Dvorak
21. Tchaikovsky, Symphony No.6
22. Tchaikovsky, Violin Concerto D Major
23. Brandenburg Concerto No.1 in F, Bach; No.6 in B,#3,4 and 5
24. Handel's Water Music
25. Meditation, Massinet

B. FOLK/POPULAR:

B.1 Baha'i CDs(40 in number at 1/8/02)

1.Parrish and Toppano, Call Out to Zion
2.Parrish and Toppano, The Royal Falcon
3.Parrish and Toppano, The Girld That I Never Knew
4.Hummingbird, Dash Crofts
5.Advance Guards, Dash Crofts
6. One Planet One People, Dash Crofts
7. Windflower, Dan Seals and Dash Crofts
8. We May Never Pass This Way Again, Crofts
9. Hollow Reed, Crofts
10. One Planet One People, Crofts
11. East of Ginger Trees, Seals and Crofts
12. Angela Wood, Gentle Warrior
13. Year of Sunday, Seals and Crofts

B.2 Non-Baha'i CDs/LPs

1. Working Class Man, Bruce Springstein
2. Angel Clare(LP) Art Garfunkle
3. Astral Weeks(LP)Van Morrison
4. Songs for Beginners, (LP)Graham Nash
5. Leave Love Enough Alone, (LP) Doug Ashdown
6. Moody Blues, (LP) On the Threshold of a Dream
7. Moody Blues, (LP)Seventh Sojourn
8. Joni Mitchell, (LP)The World Of
9. James Taylor,(LP) Sweet Baby James
10. Bob Dylan, (songs) Lay Lady Lay
-All Along the Watchtower, A Hard Rain's..,
If Not for You
11. Tom Rush, (LP) Merrimack County
12. Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, (LPs)
-4 Way Street, Celebration Copy
-Déjà vu
13.. Michael Murphy, (LP)Blue Sky Night Thunder
14. Cat Stevens, (LPs)Tea for the Tillerman, Teaser and
the Firecat.
15.Yesterday when I was young, Lena Horne
16.To follow that star, artist?
17.

B.3 FROM MY SONG BOOKS(NOT-IN-RECORD COLLECTION):

1. We are the World
2. Cats in the Cradle
3. Fire and Rain, James Taylor
4. Paul Simon, Kathy's Song
5. Gordon Lightfoot, Go My Way
-Mother of a Miner's Child
6. Mull of Kintyre
7. The Streets of London
8. As Different As We Are, John Denver
9. Rocky Mountain High, John Denver
10.

C. BACKGROUND MUSIC FOR READING/WRITING:

1. Frans Brugger, Blockflotin, Vol.2
2. Sammartini, Symphony in A. Major(see Record)

D. LITURGICAL/CHOIR/SONG: CLASSICAL

1. Faure, Blockflotin, Vol.2
2. Mahler, Symphonies No. 4/5

E. JAZZ:

1. Phil Morrison Trip, Sea Island Blues, 12 Tracks(T)
2. Jeff Jones, Live in Concert, 14T
3. Tenor/Saxaphone song(?) from Porgy and Bess

F. OTHER:
Concluding Statement:

The above list obviously include not-just-classical. It seems to suggest, as Nietzsche once said, the world is drowning in rhythm and sound.

Claudio Monteverdi's "Vespers" (1610), of which there are numerous excellent recordings -- my favorite recording is John Eliot Gardiner's, done in St Mark's in Venice. The recording is on Archiv I believe, and is also on DVD!

a glorious work.

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Originally posted by JJH:
Lists like these are impossible, so I'll just list my all-time favorite piece of music:

Claudio Monteverdi's "Vespers" (1610), of which there are numerous excellent recordings -- my favorite recording is John Eliot Gardiner's, done in St Mark's in Venice. The recording is on Archiv I believe, and is also on DVD!

a glorious work.

There's a thread on another board that asks the question "What is your favorite part of history?" Mine would have to be the Renaissance. If I had been smart, or gotten an earlier start in life, I would definitely be getting a PhD in the music of this era. Guess I could NOW, but the prospect of going back school after already having 2 degrees is miserable.

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JJH