Nick Yandell

"Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth." - Ludwig van Beethoven ---------------------------------------------------------- "There is something about music that keeps its distance even at the moment that it engulfs us. It is at the same time outside and away from us and inside and part of us. In one sense it dwarfs us, and in another we master it. We are led on and on, and yet in some strange way we never lose control.” - Aaron Copland ----------------------------------------------------------- I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge. - Igor Stravinsky ----------------------------------------------------------- [Most likely directed at the orchestra he was conducting]"God tells me how the music should sound, but you stand in the way." - Arturo Toscanini ---------------------------------------------------------- I love art music (classical)... especially works by Aaron Copland, Peter Tchaikovsky, Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, Igor Stravinsky, Roy Harris, Virgil Thomson, Ludwig van Beethoven, Samuel Barber, Gian Carlo Menotti, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Olivier Messiaen, Kurt Weill and Charles Ives. I love the great interpreters of art music such as Leonard Bernstein, Michael Tilson Thomas, Arturo Toscanini, Herbert Von Karajan, Eugene Ormany, Leopold Stokowski Vladimir Horowitz, Arthur Rubinstein, Christopher O'Riley, Glenn Gould, Dennis Brain, Lauritz Melchior, Maria Callas, Itzhak Perlman, Isaac Stern, Joshua Bell, Yo Yo Ma, Mstislav Rostropovich, Edgar Meyer, The Kronos Quartet, The Alban Berg Quartet... etc. Other Music: _Radiohead _U2 _Sigur Ros _Bill Evans _Bela Fleck _Chris Thile _Patrick Wolf _The Bad Plus -Vassar Clements -Sam Bush -Bill Monroe -Peter Rogine -Explosions in the Sky -Mogwai -Mike Marshall -Sean Maier (and Blessed) -Starsailor -Rufus Wainwright -Damien Rice -The Cinematic Underground -Bela Fleck & The Flecktones -The Dave Brubeck Quartet -Muse -David Bowie -Beck -Blur -Doves -Felipe Salles -The Velvet Teen -Pink Floyd -Fiona Apple -The Killers -Wilco -Ours -Chuck Mymit -Aqualung -Johnny Cash -Imogen Heap -Regina Specktor -Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers -This Beautiful Mess -The Doors -Coldplay -Bright Eyes -The Red Hot Chili Peppers -Shipwreck Symphony -Philip Aaberg -The Frames -Starflyer59 -Jeff Buckley -Jules Abromovitz -Tim Buckley -Calla -The Beatles -Paul McCartney -George Shearing -Ed Harcourt -Elvis Costello -Elbow -Nick Drake -The Manic Street Preachers -Over the Rhine -Snow Patrol -Badly Drawn Boy -Keane -The Modern Jazz Quartet -Syd Matters -The Section -Oasis -The White Stripes -Elton John -Rhett Miller -The Hives -The Mars Volta -Elliot Smith -Nickel Creek -E.S.T. -The Jazz Mandolin Project -The Fuzzy Logic -The Strokes -Chet Baker -Amiina -My Brightest Diamond Top 10 favorite songs/instrumental compositions: (Subject to change) 1. Appalachian Spring (Aaron Copland) 2. Life in a Glass House (Radiohead) 3. Sinai to Canaan (Chris Thile) 4. Let Down (Christopher O'riley, arranger, performer [Composed by Radiohead]) 5. Symphony 4 (Peter Tchaikovsky) 6. Sinister Minister (Bela Fleck and the Flecktones) 7. Adagio for Strings (Samuel Barber) 8. Jealous of the Moon (Nickel Creek) 9. Hoppipolla (Sigur Ros) 10. Sliding Down (Edgar Meyer, Bela Fleck, Mike Marshall)