My Music

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I love music. (Okay, who doesn't?) Almost any kind of music, ranging from Opera to hard rock/metal. Okay, so I tend to dislike the current top 40 and elevator-"Jazz" stuff, but hey, gotta stop somewhere...

Some of my top musical favorites:

Baroque period Classical

Corelli's Christmas Concerto

Ancient music

Mozart

Led Zeppelin

Sting and the Police

Verdi's "Aida"

Guitar/hard/classic rock like Dire Straits, Neil Young, the Who, Aerosmith, Jethro Tull, the Doors, Jimi Hendrix, Rush

Opera divas Kathleen Battle, Jessye Norman, Mirella Freni, Cecilia Bartoli, Leontyne Price

Female vocalists with rich low voices Alison Moyet, Annie Lennox, Grace Slick (love to copy-cat them!)

Flamenco (God, yes!) and New Flamenco like Gipsy Kings, Carmen Linares.

Celtic Music like Loreena McKennitt, Connie Dover, Kate Price, Dolores Keane, Enya.

Vocal music in general, especially weird acapella stuff.

Women of MP3.com

I've been singing for as long as I can remember -- Russian Folk, Opera, original compositions, you name it.

At the age of 10, I got my first guitar, and taught myself to play. I have this knack for learning all kinds of musical instruments on my own, very quickly. I can therefore play anything by ear on the guitar, keyboards, harmonica, accordion. Given enough time, and a new instrument, who knows -- I can make some great noises!

I also compose, for guitar and voice and keyboards.

I suppose my "highlight" performances would include:

A crazy jam session of a Russian World War II folk song at an outdoor Peace March Rally in Claremont, CA (remember the Peace March, anyone? I think it was in '87...)
Chamber performance of "Voi Che Sapete" aria of Cherubino from Mozart's "Marriage of Figaro" at Little Bridges Auditorium in Claremont, CA.
A number of weddings with original songs.
Several student productions related to Russian Studies, where I arranged, directed the students and myself, and performed.
A number of semester concerts as a member of the Pomona College Choir where I sang first soprano, although I'm normally a mezzo. I'll never forget doing Mozart's REQUIEM!

Check out the current music charts worldwide:

Normal Conquest.

Yup, that's my band. I've always dreamed of doing it.... And now, as of 10-17-99, Normal Conquest has a band page up at MP3.com Homepage -- check it out here:

http://www.mp3.com/NormalConquest

or, if the link above doesn't work, then here:

http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/58/normal_conquest.html

As of now, I am in the Pop Vocals or Celtic or New Age genre categories, but things change, so keep looking. :-)

In order to listen to mp3 format, I highly recommend MusicMatch Jukebox 4.2 software, so go and download it first.

In addition to what's up there now, I promise to have some brand new music material very soon.

Oh, and not to forget, please go and check out Kurtis Roth and Jim Bailey's Obsession Tree, two excellent music acts also up on mp3.com.

[Vera jamming in a private session at World Fantasy Con'98 in Monterey, CA.]

[More of Vera jamming... Note the careful placement of the fingers...]

And here are some shots of me jamming on my Fender Strat in a private session for a bunch of friends at World Fantasy Con '98 in Monterey, CA, Halloween weekend....

Photos courtesy of Diana Rowland.

Here's a Top 10 World Traditions Chart:

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