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About me

Gender	Male
Location	San Francisco, CA, United States
Introduction	Originally from Penn- sylvania I have been a part-time professional singer for most of my life, primarily with church choirs. I sang in small groups at Yale and was a founding member of the men's vocal ensemble Chanticleer. The rest of my career has been rather checkered. I've been a federal employee in the Trade side of U.S.Customs for over twenty years. When able to retire, I plan to work on some writing projects-- including two plays-- currently on the back burner.
Interests	History, Music, Theatre, Ballet, Opera, Classical Architecture, Politics, Travel
Favorite Movies	Ran, A Room with a View, Casablanca, The Third Man, Matt Damon Bourne series, Jean de Fleurette, Manon of the Spring, Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Gone with the Wind, Indiana Jones, Soldier of Orange, Spartacus, Robin Hood, Harry Potter, Sophie's Choice, Some Like It Hot, The Last Emperor, Downfall, The Women, Citizen Kane, Roman Holiday, The Philadelphia Story, Death in Venice, Bread and Tulips, Summertime, The Italian Job, Godfather I & II, The Seven Samurai, The Duellists, AI - Artificial Intelligence, Mr. Skeffington, Maurice, A Lion in Winter, King of Hearts, The Man Who Would Be King, The Shooting Party, Ninotchka, Queen Christina, Camille, All About Eve, Pretty Woman, Murder on the Orient Express, The Three Musketeers, Sunset Boulevard, Harold & Maud, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Dr. Strangelove, Rosemary's Baby, Carrrie, The Boys From Brazil, Auntie Mame, Network, Brokeback Mountain, The Wedding Banquet, Babette's Feast, the Shawshank Redemption, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Ordinary People, The Great Dictator, Tom Jones, Barry Lyndon, Cromwell, The Great Escape, Sunshine, Mommie Dearest, Bridge on the River Kwai, War and Peace, Annie Hall, The Purple Rose of Cairo, East of Eden, Come Back to the Five & Dime Jimmie Dean Jimmie Dean, A Wedding, Gosford Park, Moonstruck, Jezebel, The Illusionist, The Draughtman's Contract, In Bruges, Billy Elliot, The Wizard of Oz, The Wings of the Dove, Nine to Five, Ghost, Taming of the Shrew, The Mission, Atonement, Amadeus, Painted Veil, Dangerous Liaisons, The Red Violin, Kingdom of Heaven, Fargo, Psycho, The Damned, Best in Show, Fellini's Satyricon, The Music Lovers, The Name of the Rose, Lawrence of Arabia, The King and I, Carousel, Chicago, Singing in the Rain, West Side Story, My Fair lady, Gypsy, The Seventh Seal, 2001, Gladiator, The Prince and the Pauper, Kagemusha, Anastasia, Jefferson in Paris, The Madness of King George, The Duchess, Pride and Prejudice, Mrs. Brown, Wuthering Heights, Rebecca, Kind Hearts & Coronets
Favorite Music	Primarily Classical Romantic:, Brahms, Richard Strauss, Wagner, Mahler, Bach, Schubert, Bruckner, Beethoven, Sibelius, Chopin, Elgar, Monteverdi, Vivaldi, Corelli, Tallis, Byrd, Orlando Gibbons, Mozart, Bellini, Verdi, Puccini, Prokofiev, Stravinsky, Shostakovich, Purcell, Debussy, Ravel, Kodaly, Britten, Barber, Joni Mitchell, Roger Kellaway, Sergio Mendez, Ella Fitzgerald, Diana Krall, Chet Baker, Stephen Sondheim, Linda Ronstadt, early Frank Sinatra, Barbra Streisand, Josh Groban, Michael Feinstein, Cleo Laine, Barbara Cook, Dietrich Fisher-Diskau, Gundula Janowitz, Renee Fleming, Elly Ameling, Nigel Rogers, Jussi Bjorling, Artur Rubinstein, Ivan Moravec, Yo-Yo Ma, Joshua Bell, Chanticleer
Favorite Books	Authors:, Gore Vidal, Mary Renault, Barbara Tuchman, John Keats, Gary Wills, John Summerson, Alain de Botton, Stephen Mitchell, John Shelby Spong, Marcus Borg, Robert Graves, Molly Ivins, Thomas Cahill, John Julius Norwich, Tom Stoppard, Shakespeare, Tennesee Williams, Dylan Thomas, T.S. Eliot, Sylvia Plath, W.H.Auden, William Blake, William Butler Yeats, Rainer Maria Rilke, David Foster Wallace, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, C.S. Lewis, Henry James, Donna Leon, Steve Berry