J Penduck
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| Gender | Male |
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| Location | United Kingdom |
| Favorite movies | Amelie, City of God, Braveheart, Talk to Her, Since Otar left, The Graduate, The Shawkshank Redemption, Rainman, The Thin Red Line, Koyaanisqatsi, Goodbye Lenin!, Breakfast at Tiffanies, The English Patient; Little Miss Sunshine; Sideways; Amadeus; Ivan the Terrible (though not the last quarter! What on earth was Eisenstein thinking???); Battleship Potemkim; Citizen Kane; House of Flying Daggers; Le Chien Andalou (though not the traditional music...); and another surrealist film from the 30s which I've passionately loved ever since I saw it but I don't know what it's called... |
| Favorite music | Musical tastes are ever changing. One moment it's extreme avant-garde music from the 50s-70s, on another hand its (some) pop music. Overall, love Reich, Part, Stravinsky, Sibelius, Bach, RVW, as well as people like U2 and (some) Radiohead. But for more interesting stuff, I really American experimental music, French Spectral Music, STOCKHAUSEN, Miles Davis, John Coltrane and...Norah Jones (slight contrast). Composers: Thomas Tallis, William Byrd, John Dowland, Orlando Gibbons, Antonio Vivaldi, JS Bach, GF Handel, Joseph Haydn, WA Mozart, Ludwig Van Beethoven, Felix Mendelssohn, Richard Wagner (orchestral music only), Anton Bruckner, Johannes Brahms, Edward Elgar, Gustav Mahler, Claude Debussy, Jean Sibelius, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Charles Ives, Maurice Ravel, Herbert Howells, Bela Bartok, Igor Stravinsky, Edgard Varese, Anton Webern, Paul Hindemith (some), Carl Orff (later works), Aaron Copland, Karl Amadeus Hartmann, Michael Tippett, Elliot Carter (pre-1975 works), Olivier Messiaen, John Cage (pre-1953 works), Benjamin Britten, Gyorgy Ligeti, Pierre Boulez, Morton Feldman, Hans Werner Henze, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Henryk Gorecki, Harrison Birtwistle, La Monte Young, Arvo Part, Steve Reich, Philip Glass (early works: not later ones!!!), Louis Andriessen, John Tavener, John Adams, Tristan Murail (early works), Kaija Saariaho, Michael Finnissy, Magnus Lindberg, James MacMillan, Michael Gordon, David Lang, Julia Wolf, Meredith Monk, Joe Cutler, Ed Bennett, Yannis Kyriakides |
| Favorite books | Resurrection, War & Peace, Anna Karenin (Leo Tolstoy), Crime & Punishment (Dostoyevsky), One Hundred Years of Solitude (Marquez), East of Eden (Steinbeck) The Bookseller of Kabul (Seierstad) and Lolita (Nabokov), The Grapes of Wrath (Steinbeck), Beasts of No Nation (Uzinma Iweala), The Magus (John Fowles), Rubicon (Tom Holland), Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (Dee Brown), the Bible (of course, though it is actually more of a library...), The Book of Sand (Jorge Luis Borges), Fictions (Jorge Luis Borges), The Satanic Verses (Salman Rushdie), Metamorphosis and Other Stories (Franz Kafka), Shipwrecks (Akira Yoshimura), Lord of the Flies (William Golding) Poetry: TS Elliot, Ted Hughes, Philip Levine, Mimi Khalvati, John Keats, Dylan Thomas, John Milton, Pablo Neruda, Tua Fortsstrom, Sujata Bhatt, Adrian Mitchell, Langston Hughes, John Donne, Hartly Coleridge, RS Thomas, Alexander Pushkin, Juan Ruiz, Ian MacMillan, Rene Char, Allen Ginsberg History/Philosophy/Theology: Perspectives on Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Theology (Paul Tillich), The Culture Industry (Theodor Adorno), Empire (Niall Fergusson), Collosus (Niall Fergusson), Reformation (Diardmaird MacCulloch), Madness and Civilisation (Michael Foucault), Mere Christianity (CS Lewis) Creation and the World of Science (A.R. Peacocke) The Fear of Freedom (Erich Fromm) |