SOME ROCK MUSICIANS I WILL ALWAYS LOVE
AC/DC
old Aerosmith
Anthrax
Beastie Boys
Black Sabbath
Doors
original Guns N’ Roses
Iron Maiden
Judas Priest
KMFDM
Led Zeppelin
Love and Rockets
Megadeth
Melissa Etheridge
early Metallica
Ministry
Motorhead
My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult
Nine Inch Nails
Nitzer Ebb
Pantera (RIP Dimebag)
Peter Gabriel
Rage Against the Machine
Randy Rhoads
Scorpions
Sepultura
The Siegel-Schwall Band (and ALL Chicago blues!)
Slayer
U2
Van Halen (in case you’re wondering, I fall into the Sammy Hagar camp, but it’s probably just a redhead thing…)
SOME AWESOME NON-CLASSICAL VIOLINISTS (see my “Links” page for lots more)
Alasdair Fraser (Scottish fiddle)
Bonnie Rideout (Scottish fiddle)
Edgar Gabriel (lots of styles from blues to rock to fusion)
Johnny Frigo (jazz violin god - RIP)
Mark O’Connor (“we’re not worthy, we’re not worthy”)
Mark Wood (rock/metal, inventor of the Viper electric violin - the coolest violinist ever!)
Natalie MacMaster (Cape Breton fiddle - she step-dances while she plays!)
SOME PLACES WHERE I FIRST DISCOVERED GREAT NON-CLASSICAL MUSIC
The original Headbanger’s Ball
Mark O’Connor’s Fiddle Camp
Medusa’s (my favorite club in the late 80’s - early 90’s)
Scott Loftus’s old show on WVVX (What the heck ever happened to him???)
SOME DEAD CLASSICAL MUSICIANS I ADMIRE
Arcangelo Corelli (violinist, composer, and my ultimate musical ancestor from the 17th Century)
David Oistrakh (violin virtuoso)
Gustav Mahler (composer)
Henri Vieuxtemps (violin virtuoso, composer, and one of my musical ancestors from the 19th Century)
Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst (violin virtuoso and composer, “Paganini’s successor”)
Jascha Heifetz (violin virtuoso)
Johann Sebastian Bach (composer)
Leonid Kogan (violin virtuoso)
Johannes Brahms (composer)
Ludwig van Beethoven (composer)
Maud Powell (my all-time violin hero)
Nathan Milstein (violin virtuoso)
Nicolo Paganini (violin virtuoso and composer)
Sam Hill (my old church’s music director when I was growing up – RIP)
Samuel Sanders (amazing pianist and generous spirit - RIP)
Schradieck (composer of etude books)
Sevcik (composer of etude books)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (composer)
SOME LIVING CLASSICAL MUSICIANS I ADMIRE
Almita and Roland Vamos (my beloved violin teachers)
The Chicago Symphony (my hometown orchestra)
David Schrader (keyboardist extraordinaire - master of the organ, harpsichord, fortepiano, modern piano, and more)
Dominique De Lerma (THE authority on Black classical composers)
Itzhak Perlman (violin virtuoso)
John Mark Rozendaal (beautiful player of the baroque cello and viola da gamba)
Maestro Michael Morgan (conductor)
Monica Huggett (baroque violinist)
Maestro Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor)
Ruggiero Ricci (violin virtuoso)
Sigiswald Kuijken (baroque violinist)
Werner Scholz (my teacher in Berlin)
LAST BUT NOT LEAST
My mom (for singing to me when I was a baby and helping me practice when I was a little kid)
My dad (for introducing me to the blues and classic rock)
My husband (for being supportive 24/7 and also for being my toughest critic) |
