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Music which has affected my life:

In college I listenedlots to "Kinda of Blue,"an album by Miles Davis

At the Chicago Jazz Festival I once heard McCoy Tyner play. Sure what
I heard was very good, on the other hand it was not one of those "swept
away" concerts. On the first hand again -- it has stayed with me, that
dusk-time playing. McCoy Tyner, who was the piano in John Coltrane's
quartet 4 ca. years, played in a way which was beyond anything I've
heard before or since in the jazz vein. And jazz is a more
reasoned, cerebral (in a degree) music than other kinds of music in the
pale of the popular.

McCoy Tyner's tunes that evening were a fire like Balkan dance tunes,
only in a tradition which is -- more deep down -- my own. Penetrated
further into the DNA/my blood.

My interests in music are wide and far.

Just for example flamenco music

Once long ago in Bloomington, before the NPR station was 24 hr/day, I
awakened at 7. My radio had been left on. Music by Arcengelo Corelli
was playing; the music of a single solitary instrument. I think that
was a mystical experience; before all my brain cells were working, some-
thing began to pour into my soul. Again, once, hearing sonatas by
Beethoven there was the beyond-earth movement within.

I can recall B.B. King and very beautiful music from him. I heard Son
House at the Ann Arbor Blues Festival.

A country and western musician, Johnny Cash, has enriched my life.

Telemann, Purcell -- often John Dowland -- I find very rewarding.

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