J. S. Bach (The Greatest) 

• Brandenburg Concerto #5
• Partita #2 for solo violin
• B-minor Mass
• Concerto for two violins
• Fugue in G-minor, "The Little"
• The Well-tempered Clavier
• Cantata "Wachet auf"
• and just about everything else he wrote...

• Piano Concerto #1
• Clarinet Quintet
• Symphony #4
• Violin Concerto

• Symphonies #3, #5, #7, #9
• Violin Concerto
• Piano Concerto #5 "The Emperor"
• Piano Sonatas
• String Quartets

• Piano Sonata #2 in B-flat minor "The Funeral March"
• Piano Sonata #3 in B-minor
• Andante Spianato

• Carnaval
• Fantasy in C-major
• Kreisleriana

• Transcendental Etude #10
• Mephisto Waltz
• Les Preludes

• The "Trout" Quintet
• Lieder: "Der Erlkonig"

• Le Sacre du Printemps
• The Firebird Suite

• String Quartets

• Tanhauser
• Die Maistersinger von Nurnburg

• La Mer
• Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun

• George Szell
• David Oistrah
• Arthur Rubinstein
• Vladimir Ashkenazy
• Vladimir Horowitz
• Gloria Chuang

• The Outlaws of the Water Margin (Chinese)
• Romance of the Three Kingdoms (Chinese)
• Journey to the West (Chinese)
• Hamlet
• The Call of the Wild
• Lord of the Flies
• Man-Eaters of Kumaon (by Col. Jim Corbett)

• Reaching the summit of a mountain after an arduous hike.
• feeling the cold wind on my face while skiing down a slope with my kids.
• Battling a 20-lb yellowfin tuna.
• Snorkeling in the South Pacific.
• Stargazing on a warm summer night, at camp.
• Cooking outdoors for my friends and family.
• Computing, writing codes to 2 A.M.
• Seeing a good movie with my wife.
• Reading a good book.
• Impressing my kids on "Jeopardy."
• Watching Discovery Channel

• Barbecue from Black's B-B-Q in Lockhart, Texas.
• Boiled crawfish, New Orleans style.
• Spicy Szechuan cooking.
• Apple-wood smoked whole turkey, with home-made cranberry sauce.

• 1994 Joseph Phelps Insignia
• 1994 Sequoia Grove
• 1992 Araujo Estates "Eisele Vineyard"
• 1994 Caymus Estate
• 1994 Markham

• Ben Hur
• The Mysterious Island
• Alien
• First Men on the Moon
• Jason and the Argonauts
• The Dark City

• "Beauregard" (my kids' pet cockatiel)
• "Burnside" (my kids' other pet cockatiel)
• "Little Black," my dog, now in Dog Heaven; God bless his soul...
• "Hamlet," my kids' pet Hamster. Good night, sweet prince, and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest...

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