User:El Chileno Chido

Some personal facts...

 * I am a student.
 * I am a music major (trumpet; composition).
 * I am minoring in film and communications.
 * I've been told that I'm a very good cartoonist.
 * I was born in the good ol' USA.
 * I can speak, read, and write fluently in both English and Spanish.
 * Pero prefiero usar el Castellano antes que el Ingles.
 * I also speak, read, and write in French and Italian.
 * Though not able to use them fluently, I can get through a conversation in Basque and Armenian.
 * I learned Armenian only so I could win over a particular girl I was besmitten by. It worked.
 * My family is from Valparaiso, Chile
 * My ancestors were Basque and Italian.
 * I hate eggs.
 * Walter Gieseking, Ivan Moravec, Claudio Arrau, Magda Tagliaferro, and William Kapell are my favorite pianists.
 * Willem Mengelberg, Sir Thomas Beecham, Otto Klemperer, Charles Munch, Leopold Stokowski, Eugen Szenkar, Ernest Borsamsky, Frederick Stock, and Wilhelm Furtwangler are my favorite conductors.
 * La Famila P. Luche may be my all-time favorite show.
 * Another favorite show of mine is the Dotch Cooking Show.
 * I'm a registered Democrat.
 * I shared an elevator with former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger once in 1999. I was too awe-struck to say anything.
 * I first read Cervantes' Don Quixote when I was six.
 * I love the films of Jacques Tati.
 * My very favorite films are Playtime, The Magnificent Ambersons, 8 1/2, King Lear, Citizen Kane, Modern Times, The Life Aquatic, Closely Watched Trains, Good Morning, F for Fake, North by Northwest, and El ministro y yo.
 * Bronislaw Huberman is my favorite violinist.
 * I own about 3000 CDs, about 1500 musical scores, and about 1000 books.
 * Did I mention I'm a big 24 fan?
 * I think Charles Ives and Silvestre Revueltas are the greatest composers to have emerged from the American continent.
 * I lived for a total of eight months in Mexicali and Los Mochis, Mexico back in 2005. I did not want to come back home.
 * The NES and Super Nintendo may have been the most perfect video game systems ever created.
 * Music from cartoons and video games were what inspired me to study music seriously.
 * I'm a big baseball and soccer fan.
 * I'm a Dodgers fan.
 * I'm a Santiago Wanderers fan.
 * Basketball seems like a silly sport to me.
 * Friz Freleng, Tex Avery, and Bob Clampett were the greatest cartoon directors that ever walked the face of this earth!
 * Rabbit Hood is my favorite cartoon of all time. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gYriXQqRHE
 * I believe that Webern is still one of the most underappreciated of the great composers.
 * Tacos may be man's most perfect food.

Favorite Composers

 * Heinrich Schütz
 * Johann Sebastian Bach
 * Franz Josef Haydn
 * Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
 * Ludwig van Beethoven
 * Franz Schubert
 * Hector Berlioz
 * Felix Mendelssohn
 * Robert Schumann
 * Richard Wagner
 * Charles-Valentin Alkan
 * Johannes Brahms
 * Modest Mussorgsky
 * Pyotr Tchaikovsky
 * Leoš Janáček
 * Gustav Mahler
 * Richard Strauss
 * Carl Nielsen
 * Charles Ives
 * Igor Stravinsky
 * Anton von Webern
 * Alban Berg
 * Sergei Prokofiev
 * Arthur Honegger
 * Silvestre Revueltas
 * Amadeo Roldan
 * Saburo Moroi
 * Gavriil Popov
 * Dmitri Shostakovich
 * Raymond Scott
 * Nino Rota
 * Witold Lutoslawski
 * Bernd Alois Zimmermann
 * Bruno Maderna
 * Krzysztof Penderecki (his early works)
 * John Adams

Composers I can't stand

 * Samuel Barber
 * Alexander Scriabin
 * Carl Orff
 * Olivier Messiaen
 * Michael Torke
 * Mark Anthony Turnage
 * Jean Francaix
 * Krzysztof Penderecki (his "neo-romantic" works)
 * Osvaldo Golijov
 * Carlos Chavez
 * Phillip Glass
 * Benjamin Britten
 * Michael Tippett
 * William Walton
 * Jean Sibelius
 * Max Reger
 * Karol Szymanowski