Mimi asked: >But where is our profound musical 'home'? Who are the composers we most >turn to when we are feeling like we want to cleanse our tastebuds? Which >are the compositions we select when we need a good old pal, or want to >renew ourselves after a very stressful time? What is our own personal, >guaranteed, tried-and-true feel-good music? What are the pieces of music >we have sought out more than five times in the last year? An eclectic list of just a few of my personal musical elixirs: Monteverdi: Vespers of 1610 Bach: The B-Minor Mass; the St. Matthew Passion; the Art of Fugue Mozart: Mass in C-Minor; Requiem; Symphony No. 41 Schubert: String Quartet No. 14 in d; SQ No. 15 in G; Mass in A-flat Bruckner: Symphony No. 9 or Symphony No. 5 Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 5; Tallis Fantasy Edmund Rubbra: Symphony No. 4; Symphony No. 6 Rachmaninoff: All Night Vigil; Symphony No. 2 Messiaen: Turangalila Symphony; Visions de l'Amen John Williams: Scores to The Empire Strikes Back; Superman; A.I. John Proffitt Houston, TX