Cobalt blue – the church cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach – the crackling, rustling sound of walking through autumn leaves – red geraniums – the ascent of incense through shafts of sunlight – the classicism of Igor Stravinsky  – the electricity of a  New York City street – the poetry of T.S. Eliot – dark Belgian chocolate – the Anglican choral tradition – the flying buttresses around the apse of Notre Dame de Paris      Jerome Robbins’ ballets Fancy Free and Glass Pieces – children’s literature
Sagrada Familia – sitting in a big stuffed chair reading the Sunday New York Times traveling  – The Saint Matthew Passion of Bach – the gravitas of the Koln Dom      the colourscapes of Mark Rothko – The play, Murder in the Cathedral          cinnabar red – the Venetian poly-choral tradition – books, books & more books…    Advent – the Roman and Byzantine liturgies – a first snow fall – the Mariendom      Le sacre du printemps  – the operas of Puccini – Berlin – L’Opera Bastille            the portraits of John Singer Sargent – Paris – Thomas a Becket – sitting in the Luxembourg Gardens – Hagia Sophia  – the art nouveau architectural style of Antoni Gaudi – The Ballets Russe – rowing a  boat in Central Park – fugues – Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610 – The New Yorker Magazine – George Balanchine’s ballets Apollo and Serenade for Strings – the plays of Tennessee Williams – autumn darkness  Requiems of Durufle, Faure & Mozart – John Chysostomos – Leonard Bernstein's MASS A Theatre Piece for Singers, Players and Dancers – The art of Brian Rutenberg   Theatre des Champs Elysees – the World Cup – Brutalist architecture – sitting on a porch during a steady spring-summer rain…