James

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Gender Male
Location San Francisco, California
Interests food, classical music, art, books, hanging out with friends, tennis, climbing, cooking, movies
Favorite Movies Amadeus, Mother Theresa Documentary, Shadowlands, Babette's Feast, Dead Man Walking, Manhattan, Godfather, Henry V, Cinema Paradiso, Lord of the Rings trilogy
Favorite Music Bach's Goldberg Variation (Gould, later version), Sibelius Violin Concerto (Cho Liang Lin), Beethoven Late String Quartets (Lindsay Qtt), Great Pianists of the 20th Century: Martha Argerich, Strauss Four Last Songs (Janowitz), Copland Appalachian Springs - original instrumentation (Copland conducts), Brahms Piano Concertos (Gilels), Mahler Symphony No. 2 (Mehta/Vienna), Dvorak Cello Concerto (Rostropovich), Mozart Wind Concertos (Karajan/Berlin)
Favorite Books To the Lighthouse (Woolf), Weight of Glory (Lewis), Brothers Karamazov (Dostoevsky), To Kill a Mockingbird (Lee), Hamlet (Shakespeare), Huckleberry Finn (Twain), As I Lay Dying (Faulkner), Silmarillion (Tolkien), Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare), The Little Prince (St. Exupery), The Line of Beauty