Stephen
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| Introduction | I love breakfast. |
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| Interests | Pursuit of Christ, Church Music, Medicine, outdoor sports (hiking, backpacking, climbing mountains, cycling) |
| Favorite movies | none. |
| Favorite music | Favorite piece of music: JSB's b minor Mass (specifically the Gloria) Favorite composer: Johann Sebastian Bach Favorite Style: Late (High) Baroque Favorite genre: Free organ works or Hymnody as practiced in the mature, German Baroque Favorite Performers: Ton Koopman, Sietze De Vries, Harald Vogel, The Sixteen, Musica Antiqua Koln other musical interests: the role of the Reformation in the evolution of church music, Renaissance masses (Palestrina, Josquin) Mozart (concerti and opera) Haydn's "Die Schopfung" and symphonies and quartets. Schubert's symphonies. |
| Favorite books | my copy of the score of the b minor Mass, Tolstoy's short stories, the Hymnal, the Bible, |