Easy Listenin'

"One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory."--Rita Mae Brown

I'm being more frivolous than usual as I write this. I'm fairly conservative in music tastes, and mostly oblivious to these things called lyrics as I don't "hear" them unless I'm making an effort to. Your mileage may vary.

No particular order, just whatever's caught my fancy at the moment, and it's not comprehensive. I am so not affiliated with these people (living or dead), either.

Loreena McKennit, Aryeh Frankfurter, Margaret Davis, George Winston, Ironweed, Secret Garden, Larry Meyerhoff, Steeleye Span, Joe Weed, Danny Doyle
Yoko Kanno, especially with her music for the animé series Visions of Escaflowne and Cowboy Bebop; Hikaru Nanase
Cayuga Waiters, Talisman, Stanford Fleet Street Singers
Andrew Lloyd Weber, assorted Disney soundtracks
David Massengill, Simon & Garfunkel, Janis Ian
Anne Murray, the Judds, Janie Frick, John Denver
Diana Ross, Nat King Cole
early Celine Dion (especially in French), Lara Fabian, Alicia Keys, Vienna Teng, Beth Boucher, Rachel Gaudry, Nana Mouskouri, Nellie McKay, Michelle Cross
Marc Anthony, Gypsy Kings
Qin Jun (guzheng)
Capitol Steps (in a class of their own!)
Pachelbel, Bach (Brandenburg!), Palestrina, Vivaldi, Corelli, Respighi
Mozart, Beethoven
Brahms, Chopin, Dvorak
Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakoff, Shostakovich, Rachmaninoff, Gliere, Stravinsky, Prokofiev
Elgar, Grieg, Holst, Sibelius, Saint-Saens, Warlock, Barber, Vaughn Williams, Bruch, Walter Taieb
Rodrigo, Villa-Lobos, Copland, Stephen Hough playing just about anything, George Winston
music from the computer games Planescape: Torment, The Longest Journey and Morrowind (I kid you not)
Sondheim's Sweeney Todd
E.S. Posthumus

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