Janos:

> Can you remember the first piece of classical music that inspired you?
> A great question, although I wonder about "inspire." Impressed? Moved?
> Enchanted?

OK -- I'll bite.  For me it was the Tchaikovsky B-flat minor piano
concerto followed almost immediately by the 4th symphony.  These 78
rpm record albums were given to me by my grandfather when I was between
8 and 10 years old.  I played them on a hand-cranked Victrola.  The
collection was soon augmented by the Beethoven Emperor and the Archduke
Trio.  I wore the grooves right off of those old disks.  Wonderful stuff!
I think it was the Tchaikovsky more than anything that made me want to
be a composer.  That shows how dangerous these things can be!

David Lamb

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