Peter Friedman

The radicals are in power? Yes, the right wing radicals. The Republicans control the white house, the congress, most state governors and legislatures. Free speech for conservatives on campus is an issue, but so is free speech for athletes, LeBron and Steph Curry, and NFL players who choose to kneel. And it was the current President who referred to those who did not applaud his Set Of The Union address as "traitors".

Bollmann - Piano Quartet Tchaikovsky - String Quartet No.2

Mazzarella's playing is not to my taste. Living alto players I prefer include Dmitry Baevsky and Dave Glasser, as well as some others who have been on the scene longer such as Dick Oatts, P.J. Perry and Bob Mover.

Beethoven - Piano Trio No.3, Op.1/3 Dvorak - String Quartet No. 14, Op.105

I am with the "comfort zone" group. New to me is when I find a new composer of string quartets from the "classical or romantic" periods of classical music. I can then listen to these quartets that are new to me, but fit within a general framework that I enjoy. It is very much the same within the jazz realm. For example, a saxophone player I have not heard before whose playing I like, yet plays within the stylistic areas with which I am comfortable. That for me, is both new and comfortable. As Dan indicated in a previous post. There is only so much time and so much money available. I want the music I listen to to give me pleasure. I am not really interested at this point in my life to explore music that goes well beyond my comfort zone. Been there and tried that in my younger days. Spent a lot of time listening to music - both jazz and classical with the goal of opening myself to music I was supposed to like.I discovered that for me, most it what I was listening to in this exploration period was either unpleasant, or boring, or both.

Arensky - Piano Trio Op.50 Mozart Piano Concerto No.9 - Brendel / Marriner

I have seen her live a few times. Did not care for her pop oriented things, but when she played straight ahead bop style alto she was terrific. There are those here who are not interested in younger musicians playing bebop or hard bop. They only want to hear that style from recordings of musicians who are dead, or from those still alive, but grew up with those styles when it new in the 40's, 50's or maybe the 60's. So it is no surprise that they do not care for the playing of Grace Kelly. Some us are beboppers at heart and enjoy many of the "younger" musicians continuing those styles that we love.

Mozart - Violin Concerto No.2, K.211 Brahms - Sonata for Piano & Violin No.1,Op.78

I don't recall any mention of the following book? Dexter Gordon : A Musical Biography by Stan Britt It is available on Amazon.