User:Mark Raymond Luce

Dear fellow Wikipedia editor's, As you can see from my username, my surname / family name is Luce pronounced the same as Clare Boothe Luce and her husband the founder of Time Magazine Henry Luce.

I don't know how much information I should or should not give here, but here is what I am comfortable about telling anyone about myself.

I am an American citizen living in Austria for 25 years now. I was married to an Austrian woman and we raised to austrian-born daughters both of whom are very successful and both are fluent in English as well as their mother tongue German, I myself am fairly fluent in German. I am divorced now but my ex-wife and I are still very good friends and I live alone with my two cats and I'm quite happy and now retired and my ex-wife lives nearby.

I am a Democrat and I have never missed an election and I always vote Democrat! I worked in Vienna at a big international music distribution company in the financial administration department as the Royalty and Licensing Administrator for about half of that 25 years and the other nearly half of those 25 years at an international software company headquartered in Vienna writing technical manuals for IT departments at big International companies throughout the world - including the Library of Congress in the USA. I am university-educated, my major was music education, I minored in astronomy and British and American literature. I am interested in a vast array of subjects and I read Wikipedia quite a bit. I see from my user account that I have had an account for 8 years now (now being April 13, 2021), and I have only made several edits usually having to do with songs. I enjoy reading articles on astronomy and cosmology and anything about history including biographies of historical people and how they tie in with historical events - many of these articles may or may not be Wikipedia articles. And I read a lot of news, BBC is my go-to news source, and I also like France 24.

I am a trained musician, I play piano, guitar, bass guitar, and drums, and I sing, and I have my own home recording studio setup - with very good up-to-date gear such as a hard disk recording and lots of classic snths and synth modules and some nice high end instruments - guitars, bass, and drums. I studied and analyzed all of the classic composers while at University, and I have a deep appreciation for all the greats such as JS Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Debussy, Brahms, and Stravinsky and of course many others, and my favorite composer is Rachmaninoff - although I do enjoy certain later Mozart pieces quite a bit. I am a huge connoisseur of pop, rock, and jazz music, and my favorite all-time pop rock music / songs are by The Beatles, and I have a deep appreciation for all the jazz greats especially from the 30s, 40s, and 50s. If I make an edit in Wikipedia (which is very seldom), my intentions are honorable and purely to add to the value of the content of that particular article, or to edit what I know is incorrect content - which is very seldom. Since retiring, I seem to be more busy than I was when I was working full-time, but I do get to read more often and maybe I will have the occasion to make an edit or add content to Wikipedia, but for the most part I am very satisfied with what I have read on Wikipedia. I think that's enough about me, I hope it's not too much or too boring. Kind regards, Mark R. Luce Austria / Central Europe