Sam Kemp ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

>...  I'm an amateur pianist of fairly good standard (I hope - though
>the neighbours might disagree!:-) with an interest in Romantic music,
>particularly Beethoven and Mahler.  I have yet to meet anyone else who
>shares that particular esoteric preference!

You have now.  Take a look at my home page
(http://www.camosun.bc.ca/~dbarker) for prooof.

>I also indulge myself in a bit of compoisition, although I haven't really
>found my feet in this particular field yet - someday, perhaps - and so my
>work is mostly limited to piano pieces with a few experimental orchestral
>works.
>
>I hope that I've found some people with similar interests to myself here,
>as being a fourteen-year old at secondary school in the UK I seem to be in
>a minority of one!

I was doing much the same at your age - which is also more or less when
I discovered Mahler and Bruckner (Beethoven a year or two earlier).

Welcome.  BTW, where are you?

Deryk Barker
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