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Who I'd like to meet

I'm hoping that most of the people who request friendship are at least interested in classical music. This is a passionate, continuing interest and is also my profession, albeit retired.

My Interests

Movies

Music

My wife and I are strictly classical musicians. As far as favorite music, Isaac Stern had the best definition of a favorite piece of music--the one you are playing at this moment. I love chamber-music.

My Heroes

Growing up, my heroes were all musicians: violinists like Fritz Kreisler, Jascha Heifetz, Nathan Milstein and Joseph Fuchs (my teacher) and pianists like Artur Rubinstein, Vladimir Horowitz, Rudolf Serkin, etc. I always loved to listen to and play chamber music. I listened to groups like the Budapest String Quartet, the Juilliard String Quartet, etc. Of course, there's a new generation of virtuosi to admire. I admit that all this makes me a bit narrow in outlook, but performing and teaching music is a life which needs a kind of single-minded devotion if one is to achieve anything of note. Nudism is a new fascination, a perhaps unreachable idyllic world at my stage of the game, especially with a wife who is really not interested and for whom social nudity would be somewhat traumatic. Concert pianists are trained to dress carefully and present their best image to the public. It's hard to shake that background. We've been married for 57 years! I can dream, can't I? I would like to be able to visit one of the nudist resorts but I would have to do it without my wife, so that is highly unlikely since we're rarely apart.