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These are peerless words:
I shudder whenever I see or hear:
(9 Jan 2014) I have a new favourite definition:
That her father just happened to be my favourite violinist ever, Jascha Heifetz, is just one of those examples of serendipitous synchronicity that my life seems to be full of.
I include this list as a compromise. What I'd really like to do is list my favourite musical works, but it would be a very long list. I will do it some day when I have time. However you may be interested in Timeless Tunes for Tuneless Times.
An appearance on my list of composers does not mean that I necessarily like everything they wrote. And a non-appearance does not mean I don't like many of their works (eg. Bach, Beethoven, Debussy, Delius, Dvorak, Haydn, Holst, Liszt, Mozart, Mussorgsky, Ravel, Schumann, Stravinsky, Wagner et al).
The following are the composers whose style and musical creativity I consistently resonate with: Johannes Brahms, Frédéric Chopin, Sir Edward Elgar, Gabriel Fauré, Leopold Godowsky, Percy Grainger, Enrique Granados, Leoš Janáček, Aram Khachaturian, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Constant Lambert, Gustav Mahler, Federico Mompou, Ástor Piazzolla, Francis Poulenc, Giacomo Puccini, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Domenico Scarlatti, Franz Schubert, Jean Sibelius, Richard Strauss, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Giuseppe Verdi and ...
The Abduction of Psyche (Le Ravissement de Psyché, or L'Enlèvement de Psyché; 1895) by William-Adolphe Bouguereau,
... closely followed by his earlier version Psyche and Amor ...
Acknowledgments to User:Masamage for bringing the 2nd one (the earlier version) to my attention
My two all-time favourite films are:
Others I never tire of are listed here.
The following is part of Australian tax law, specifically s.165-55 of the A New Tax System (Goods and Services) Act 1999 :
Isn't that just wonderful!! The law is most definitely an ass!!
See also Prohibition of death for an equally absurd law.
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