mitchell
| Gender | Male |
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| Occupation | retired |
| Location | Boston, MA, United States |
| Introduction | Middle-aged, gay, recently lost partner of 30 years. Ebullient and shy by turns. Endlessly curious about absolutely everything. |
| Interests | Literature, esp poetry, painting, music, esp. opera and classical. Antiques, esp. Victorian, Victorian jewelry, film, esp. Hollywood during the studio system's height, people, travel and history. |
| Favorite movies | Les Enfants du Paradis, Le Jour se Leve, Smiles of a Summer Night, Wuthering Heights, The Letter, 8 1/2, and infinitum. |
| Favorite music | Anything by JS Bach, especially the piano transcriptions of which I own a shocking amount, Mozart but only the operas and a few symphonies. Saint Saens, esp. the piano concerti, Puccini, almost no Wagner, verdi's "Otello, and several 20th century operas, esp. Blitzstein's "Regina," previn's "streetcar named Desire," and Thomas Ades's "Powder Her Face." Musicals, esp Sondheim but not ALW. |
| Favorite books | Collected Works of: Emily Dickinson, WH Auden, Elizabeth Bishop. All of Jane Austen except Northanger Abbey, Andre Gide's "Strait is The Gate" and Enid Bagnold's "The Loved and Envied" and about 500 more. |
All of the phone numbers have fallen out of your address book. Whose number do you look for first and why?
Why do so many gifted people never see the lightof day and so many no-talents achieve success?