Sarah McLachlan, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin,Michael Buble, Norah Jones, Shannon Worrell, Evanescence, Keane, Belle and Sebastian, , William Shatner, Dave Matthews, Tony Bennett, Dixie Chicks, The Killers, Bruce Springsteen, John Mellencamp, Chieftains, Christy Moore, Gaelic Storm, Jimmy Buffett, The Dead, and Bob Dylan
Movies
The Big Kahuna, Twice Upon a Yesterday, The Princess Bride, Wonder Boys, Swimming with Sharks, Sex Lies and Videotape, Closer, Groundhog Day, Barfly, The Fisher King, Crash, Harvey, Guys and Dolls, Iron Man, Watchmen, Annie Hall & all Woody Allen films, and The Marx Brothers.
Television
Yankee Baseball, Lie to Me, and I still occaisionally(I admit it)watch, Star Trek.
Books
A few: On Acting, by Sanford Meisner, Art Books, David Copperfield, Wuthering Heights, Angelas Ashes, Pride and Prejudice, The Sun Also Rises, Will Durant's Story of Civilization series, Vasari's, The Lives of the Artists. Currently reading: The Nude by Kenneth Clark, A Dream of Passion by Strasberg, and Emotions Revealed by Paul Ekman.
I paint...to begin with. I also like to travel. I've lived in Philly, New York, NJ, Scottsdale, Boston, and France. Out of the fifty states I have been to forty six of them and I learned that where ever I go I'm still Jersey. I like old music and old movies. I think "Sinatra" should be a lifestyle, (why not, hippies have "The Dead"). I think Broadway Shows should not be based on movies and people should never wear jeans to them. Science and Psychology are my favorite hobbies - too many people just don't spend enough time asking "why" anymore because they either think the answers are already provided or they just don't care. I hold the door for strangers. I tip based on the quality of service not looks. I hate facebook - keep how drunk you get to yourself, I like old, dirty, Irish Pubs - I feel at home in em'. I actually like candle light dinners and long walks on the beach...espicially when one follows the other and I won't apologize for it just cause you don't think it's cool....believe me, it's cool. I take my work but not myself too seriously. I like to laugh. I prefer a book to reading online. I let people get into my lane in traffic....because maybe they made a mistake and i'm not in a rush to go nowhere. I like baseball. I don't care for television and yet I have no problem staring for hours at a fire. I despise waiting on line...for anything... One the worst things a person can do to me is waste my time. I like cute towns, with non-corporate resteraunts, cobble stone streets and a little live music.
"I guess there's nothing left for me to explain, here's what your getting and I don't want to change." - Clapton
I was featured in the Feb 2009 issue of American Artist Magazine. I will be teaching two workshops in Brisbane, Australia. Please contact me if you should like to request any more detailed information or visit my website for my full Bio & Resume.
Current Representation:
Scottsdale Fine Art - 7116 East Main Street, Scottsdale, Arizona
Gallery 1870 - Napa Valley, CA
Artmosphere Gallery - Boston, MA
Gate House Galleries - 394 Franklin Ave. Wyckoff, NJ
Gate House Galleries - 319 Route 10 E. East Hanover, NJ
The lyric tells of the joy of love; but there is sadness in it also, because it speaks of the transitoriness of life. The song extols the power of love to remain constant in a fleeting world.
Music: "Glück, das mir verblieb" from the opera "Die tote Stadt"
Composer: Erich Wolfgang Korngold (May 29, 1897 – November 29, 1957)
Performers: Anne Sofie von Otter – soprano
All my best, michael
..A brilliant Mozart symphony is in my myspace classical music-video blog.
Schumann was married to the famous pianist and composer Clara Wieck, who carried on a lifelong emotionally passionate, but probably platonic relationship with Brahms. For the last two years of his life, after an attempted suicide, Schumann was confined to a mental institution.
Music: Quintet for Piano and Strings, Op.44, Move. 2
Composer: Robert Schumann
All my best, michael
..Mozart 's "Exultate Jubilate", which speaks unmistakably of his relaxed high spirits, elation and confidence that his opera-house success brought him, is in my myspace classical music-video blog.
Palmieri says, "Hello" and is glad to be a new friend to Clinton T. Hobart
Composed in 1946 after his music was censured and banned by Soviet authorities, this work was furiously denounced due to the supposed horrors that the music portrays and because it ends in a very ambiguous, inconclusive, fashion. Some critics went as far as accusing Shostakovich of hiding coded subversive messages against Stalin within it.
Music: String Quartet No. 3, Move. 3
Composer: Dimitri Shostakovich
Performers: Emerson String Quartet
All my best, michael
..The powerful choral/symphonic "Dies Irae" from Verdi's "Requiem" is in my myspace classical music-video blog.
Greetings good friend, I pray you are saturated with contentment, joy and laughter perpetually. Nothing but the best for you and those you care for, from The Holy City Of Oakland, Always, James :)
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