Le Grand Lustucru
New member
Hello, everyone! (anyone remember Karl Haas warmly greeting his listeners with that? I miss him! ). I'm American, now in St. Louis, though hope to move back home to New York State within a year or so. Nearly lifelong listener to classical music in which frankly there is not much I won't listen to from early music to the most experimental. In my early adult years I seriously erred in thinking Mahler and Wagner horrible composers - I shudder to think about it - now they are in my Top Ten. I like to think I learned a lesson from that and try to refrain from strong negativity. I'm esp. fond of things French. And Brahms, naturally. My latest 'discovery' is Miaskovsky, whose symphonies affect me strongly. Thanks for having me on MIMF!