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Beautiful!! I’m sure it’s quite a room. I am imagining it now.

Music makes life worth living, specifically classical music in all it’s forms and periods. As well, I love organic American bluegrass music, some folk and singer/songwriter pop music, Motown, Ragtime, and Irish music. I very much appreciate jazz and I’m quite fond of the Blue period (Kind of Blue by Miles Davis, etc)..

Carry on fellow freeper !

On another wall in that same room I have three 3' x 5' wall hangings hung in series which together comprise a timeline from 1930 - 2000. Like the other one I described earlier it features original autographs of close to 200 keyboardists spanning from George Gershwin through John Williams, each labeled with a song which they were either the composer for or the artist named on the recording. One panel contains artists from 1930 -1960, another 1960 - 1980, and the last one, 1980 - 2000. Not all artists are well known but their renderings are known the world over.

Consider for example: who was the pianist who played on the recording of "Bridge Over Troubled Water" by Simon and Garfunkel? Do you know? The name of that person was Larry Knechtel. I wrote Larry and he was kind enough to send me a signed card. Or how about who was the pianist on Christopher Cross's "Sailing" -- it wasn't Chris; he's a guitarist. The pianist is a contemporary Christian artist by the name of Michael Omartian. He too was kind enough to sign a card for me. Each are on the timeline

Of course there's Carol King ("You've Got a Friend), Alex Bugnon ("Love Season"), Neal Hefti ("Batman"), Henry Mancini ("Pink Panther"), Keiko Matsui ("Wildflower") Bill Withers ("Lovely Day") among others who supplied a few measures from these hits on staff paper along with a autograph and sentiment too.

Have some extremely difficult signatures to locate too (not obtained in person) from the likes of Vince Guaraldi ("Charlie Brown" theme), Thelonious Monk ("Straight, No Chaser"), Bud Powell ("Bouncing with Bud"), Jelly Roll Morton ("King Porter Stomp"), Art Tatum ("April in Paris"), Max Steiner ("Gone With the Wind") theme.

Have another whole staircase wall with autographed/signed albums mounted as contiguous 12" x 12" tiles. Lot's of great musicals form the '50's and '60's. Even have Van Cliburn's autograph on his famous Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto #1 competition I Moscow LP from 1958.

If you are looking for a delightful on-line Classical music station with truly engaging personalities as presenters I refer you to ClassicFM from London www.classicfm.com

And for one last thing to cheer your day. I found this little gem over the weekend. You can "visualize" a very famous piece as performed by a very famous composer: Debussy plays "Claire de Lune" (piano roll)

FReegards!