Dorsetmike
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How much did your childhood influence your choices in later life, example did your parents choices of Christmas and birthday presents make any impression, I recall getting a train set for Christmas when I was about 4 or 5, I still have a model railway.
Mother played piano, father was a good counter tenor, mostly church music & songs of the Victorian era, and so music has always been an interest although the genre has changed, dad was an opera nut and also romantic classical.
Any "popular music" (1940s) was likely to be Paul Robeson, Gracie Fields and other mostly forgotten names, or comedy like Spike Jones, Arthur Askey etc.
I gradually changed my tune (so to speak) when I found myself as a counter tenor in a choral group that majored on madrigals, motets and other early works, this led me to other renaissance and baroque music where my classical tastes have remained. My love of jazz and big band music stems from my first 78RPM disc of Dodo Marmarosa which drove dad up the wall, probably as far up as his opera records did for me!
I got my hands on the family Agfa box camera when I was about 14, it was a while before I could afford one for myself in my 20s, I've not been without a camera since. (Think I've got about a dozen now!)
We always had roses in the garden where ever we were, that has stayed with me, although I no longer have the energy nor agility to look after them properly.
Mother played piano, father was a good counter tenor, mostly church music & songs of the Victorian era, and so music has always been an interest although the genre has changed, dad was an opera nut and also romantic classical.
Any "popular music" (1940s) was likely to be Paul Robeson, Gracie Fields and other mostly forgotten names, or comedy like Spike Jones, Arthur Askey etc.
I gradually changed my tune (so to speak) when I found myself as a counter tenor in a choral group that majored on madrigals, motets and other early works, this led me to other renaissance and baroque music where my classical tastes have remained. My love of jazz and big band music stems from my first 78RPM disc of Dodo Marmarosa which drove dad up the wall, probably as far up as his opera records did for me!
I got my hands on the family Agfa box camera when I was about 14, it was a while before I could afford one for myself in my 20s, I've not been without a camera since. (Think I've got about a dozen now!)
We always had roses in the garden where ever we were, that has stayed with me, although I no longer have the energy nor agility to look after them properly.
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