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Mark

Though we might have precious little, it's still precious

About Me

24 year old male, bass trombonist. Someday I will be a music educator, I have just decided to take a round-about way of getting there. Currently going to SUNY Fredonia studying music education and keeping the dream alive.The Big Blue Big Band and I just recorded a CD with the amazing Sinatra Singer Steven Maglio. "Songs for Sinatra Lovers!" is available from Steve's website .

My Interests

Living Life, going to concerts, conducting, teaching music, composing, arranging, teaching trombone, rock bands, orchestras, reading, watching movies, going to school, and discovering music I haven't heard.

I'd like to meet:

Syd Barret 1946 - 2006, Shine On You Crazy Diamond
Mike Portnoy
James Bond
Bill Clinton
Georg Solti
Neil Peart
Batman

Music:

Top Five All-Time Favorite Songs:
1. Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd from The Wall
2. The Spirit Carries On - Dream Theater from Scenes From A Memory
3. The Rain Song - Led Zeppelin from Houses of The Holy
4. Baba O'Reilly - The Who from Who's Next
5. Roll The Bones - Rush from Roll The Bones

Top Ten All-Time Favorite Albums:
1. The Wall - Pink Floyd
2. Scenes From A Memory - Dream Theater
3. Before These Crowded Streets - Dave Matthews Band
4. Tommy - The Who
5. Moving Pictures - Rush
6. Boston - Boston
7. Overnight Sensation - Frank Zappa
8. Liquid Tension Experiment - LTE 1
9. Foxtrot - Genesis
10. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles

New Currently Listening To:

Dream Theater - Systematic Chaos
Rush - Snakes and Arrows
Porcupine Tree - Fear of A Blank Planet
Coheed and Cambria - IV: Good Apollo...
Symphony X - Paradise Lost

Movies:

Top Ten All-Time Favorite Movies:
1. The Godfather
2. Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
3. Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
4. Pulp Fiction
5. Goodfellas
6. The Incredibles
7. Vertigo
8. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
9. Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl
10. Ben-Hur

Television:

Top Five Favorite TV Shows (in no order except no. 1):
1. The Sopranos
2. The Muppet Show
3. Seinfeld
4. Sex in The City
5. Grey's Anatomy

Books:

Currently reading the Dark Tower series by Stephen King and am loving it.