[speaker001:] well uh what is your favorite kind of music
[speaker002:] well I have to say my favorite type of music would probably be uh classical music
[speaker001:] oh same here yeah
[speaker002:] oh really what type of music do you like in the classical area or what era do you era do you like the most
[speaker001:] oh well I guess I like a wide range uh everything from uh from Baroque through at least some modern music
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] and my wife and I these days are especially into opera we've been sort of opera fans for a few years now
[speaker002:] um do you go to the operas that they sing English or go to the ones that they sing other languages
[speaker001:] well we uh generally the places we've gone they sing in the original languages
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] like the Dallas Opera here normally does I guess
[speaker002:] um-hum yeah I I haven't gotten into that too much because I uh if I don't know the story line and um I don't speak the language then I have difficult time comprehending what's going on
[speaker001:] well one thing that's helped us a lot is that uh you you know you can buy a lot of these operas now on video cassettes uh video tape
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] and so we have quite a collection of those and you watch them at home and they have subtitles so you you figure out what's going on after a while and then you can enjoy it in the uh theater but you know the uh Dallas opera now has uh super titles on on all their performances I think
[speaker002:] what is that
[speaker001:] well they they give an uh an English translation on a on a screen up above the stage
[speaker002:] oh I didn't know that
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] that can help people like me
[speaker001:] in fact they even do that for operas sung sung in English because it is hard to understand the words some times
[speaker002:] well I can understand that so I'd say Vivaldi is probably my favorite uh composer
[speaker001:] yeah well I really like Vivaldi uh he's uh definitely uh one of the one of the top of that era
[speaker002:] yeah I like Baroque music I like full body music uh with the uh uh with brass and winds wood winds instruments uh course I like uh also string instruments and I have two string instruments in my house uh instrument players
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] both my sons play string instruments one plays a Cello and the other one plays the Viola
[speaker001:] oh
[speaker002:] so I get to go to at least four or five concerts a year
[speaker001:] uh-huh how how old are they
[speaker002:] uh one is thirteen and one is eleven
[speaker001:] so they're doing this in school or what uh-huh
[speaker002:] yes yes sure
[speaker001:] well you've got half a string quartet there
[speaker002:] yeah we're on our way
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] so uh um I try to enjoy all of it
[speaker001:] well since you seem to like uh Italian music have you ever uh gotten into Gabrielli or anybody there in that era the uh uh period right before actually before Vivaldi I guess
[speaker002:] um a little bit but um a lot of the um music I don't know about uh as far as the titles and I have to listen to it and and figure out what I'm listening to
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] um I do belong to a Musical Heritage Society
[speaker001:] oh yes uh-huh
[speaker002:] do you belong to that
[speaker001:] no I don't but I think I know what it is isn't that a uh uh see can't you get records through that or something recordings
[speaker002:] you can get recordings uh they now have them on compact disc or uh or cassettes or LP's
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] and uh they do their they do a lot of original recordings themselves
[speaker001:] yes yeah I think uh
[speaker002:] uh but they also uh they also uh go to the different composers or the different I guess uh what do you call them the guys that orchestrate
[speaker001:] uh
[speaker002:] the conductors the conductors yeah they go to conductors uh and and they actually have them perform the music and they record it
[speaker001:] uh yes right so they're actually commissioned performances
[speaker002:] sure a lot of them are
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] or they will know find out when they're performing and they will uh record the music at that time and so uh it is uh uh high quality grade music and of course now they're getting in they also have a jazz section and they also have a uh more contemporary and American uh composer section
[speaker001:] uh-huh well I have good heard good things about the uh Music Heritage Society but if I get involved in one of those things I end up spending all my money on the on the music or
[speaker002:] yeah well you can control it uh
[speaker001:] almost uh almost uh bankrupted myself out of college as a freshman when I got into the Columbia Record Club many years ago
[speaker002:] oh really
[speaker001:] yeah my room mate signed me up he got a bonus record and I got a lot of bills
[speaker002:] I see
[speaker001:] so we have to watch that
[speaker002:] huh well that's good
[speaker001:] uh do you play an instrument yourself
[speaker002:] yes I I play guitar and and early years played saxophone