Classical
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Selections below are MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) instrumental files.

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• Wagner - Bridal Chorus • Wagner - Die-Walkure-Feuerzauber • Wagner - Ride of the Walkure • Wagner - Grand March from Tannhauser • Beethoven - Symphony No. 6 - Pastoral • JS Bach - Toccata & Fugue in D Minor • Edvard Grieg - Peer Gynt Suite No.1 - Anitra's Dance • Debussy - Claire de Lune (1) • Debussy - Claire de Lune (2) • Debussy - Claire de Lune (3) • Beethoven - Furelise • Chopin - Fantasy Impromptu • Mozart Piano Variations • More Mozart • Chopin - Prelude Themes from Tchaikovsky's the Nutcracker     • Nutcracker Overture      • Dance of the Reed Flutes     • Waltz of the Flowers     • Russian Dance     • Sugar Plum Fairies Dance • Tchaikovsky - Swan Lake Theme • Giacomo Puccini - Un Bel Di • Rosinni - Finale to William Tell Overture • Wagner - Bridal Chorus • Wagner - Die-Walkure-Feuerzauber • Wagner - Ride of the Walkure • Wagner - Grand March from Tannhauser I was 14 when I first got interested in classical music. I had just been transferred to Le Conte Junior High in Hollywood, where I met a kid named Carl Von Papp who, like myself, was an amateur magician. Another thing Carl and I had in common was being raised by a divorced mom. We quickly became good friends and are still friends some six decades later. I'm not sure how or why Carl became interested in classical music, but he soon got me hooked on it, too. Neither of us could afford a phonograph or records, but our favorite radio station was KFAC, a Los Angeles station that played classical music 24 hours a day. As an aside, the disk jockey who had the midnight-to-6AM shift was Steve Allen, who would later tell how he used his free time on the job - the long gaps of inactivity because of playing full length concertos and symphonies - he would study everything he could find on how to get into show business. Getting back to the music, even though neither Carl nor I had a record player, we spent a lot of time listening to classical records. How? Well, in those days, many of the stores that sold records had "listening booths" in which customers could try out one or more records before making a buying decision. The store Carl and I frequented was Wallich's Music City on the corner of Sunset Blvd. and Vine St. in Hollywood. We had a newspaper stand a few blocks away on the corner of Sunset Blvd. and Gower St. (aka Gower Gulch) and would often leave the stand unattended while we walked down to Wallich's and spent some time pretending to be potential customers. Of course, Wallich's frowned on anyone spending time in the booths just listening and never buying, which is mainly what Carl and I did. However, we got away with it by being careful never to ask the same clerk twice in a row for a record (or records) to sample. And we were good at making it appear that we were genuinely interested in buying something. And, eventually - after I bought a small radio-phonograph combination, we did buy a record or two. In fact, we eventually became pretty good customers of Wallich's and one or two other record stores in the area. These selections have been created (sequenced) on an electronic keyboard connected to a PC, and saved as computer MIDI files. The files can be copied to a CD, but will not work in a regular audio CD player or "boombox." However, they can be played via any standard computer.