Favorite Composers

Hildegard von Bingen, Tallis, Purcell, Monteverdi, Gesualdo, Telemann, Handel, J.S. Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms, Schumann, Puccini, Verdi, Boulez, Bizet, Dvorák, Ravel, Debussy, Fauré, Mahler, Richard Strauss, Ives, Stravinsky, Poulenc, Prokofiev, Borodin, Barber, Copland, Vaughan-Williams, Bernstein, Satie, Joplin, Villa Lobos, Kodály, Bartók, Britten, Hindemith, Messiaen, Ligeti, Weill, Hovhaness, Harrison, Martin, Adams, Pärt
 

Favorite Jazz Artists

Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Sarah Vaughn, Ella Fitzgerald, Tony Bennett, Earl Hines, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, Bill Evans, Miles Davis, Wayne Shorter, Joe Zawinul, Keith Jarrett, George Shearing, Art Tatum, Fats Waller, Oscar Peterson, Mose Allison, Herbie Hancock, Tony Williams, Billy Cobham, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Eric Dolphy, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonius Monk, John Lewis, Dave Brubeck, Stan Getz, Jerry Mulligan, Paul Desmond, Julian "Cannonball" Adderly, Pat Metheney, Lyle Mays, Tete Montoliu, Charlie Christian, Larry Carlton, Gary Burton, Steve Swallow, Carla Bley, Paul Winter, Jaco Pastorius, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Sonny Rollins, Marcus Roberts, Egberto Gismonti, Avishai Cohen
 

Favorite Singers and Songwriters

Robert Johnson, Skip James, Blind Willie McTell, Sleepy John Estes, Charley Patton, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Big Bill Broonzy, Walter Davis, Muddy Waters, Stephen Foster, Hoagy Carmichael, Harold Arlen, George and Ira Gershwin, Cole Porter, Jerome Kern, Johnny Mercer, Sammy Kahn, Stephen Sondheim, Mike Gibbs, João Gilberto, Woodie Guthrie, Hank Williams, Wynonie Harris, Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry, Carole King, John Lennon, John Sebastian, Paul Simon, Brian Wilson, George Harrison, Richard Thompson, Lowell George, Michael McDonald, Peter Gabriel, Joan Armatrading, Townes Van Zandt, John Hiatt, Rickie Lee Jones, Joni Mitchell, Richard Fariña, Bob Dylan, Bobby Charles, Kate and Anna McGarrigle, Cyril Tawney, Steve Goodman, John Fogarty, Neil Young, Randy Newman, Patty Larkin, James Taylor, David Byrne, Robbie Robertson, Steve Winwood, Bill Withers, Laura Nyro, Dolly Parton, k.d. lang, Ronnie Milsap, Roy Orbison, Billy Joel, John Hall, Bruce Springsteen, Joe Jackson, Robin Williamson, Bruce Hornsby, Leonard Cohen, David Bowie, Annie Lennox, Donna Summer, Elvis Costello, Tom Waits, Mark Knopfler, Garth Brooks, Gilby Hager, Bill Harley, Steve Snyder, Kate Katzberg, Dave Van Ronk, Paul Geremia, Sheryl Crow, Bryan Adams, Lyle Lovett, Alanis Morissette, Alison Krauss, Sting, P.J. Harvey, Keb Mo, Paula Cole, Ina May Wool, Ani DiFranco, Dave Matthews, Sam Beam, a.k.a. Iron & Wine, and whoever wrote "Greensleeves"
 

Favorite Performing Artists and Bands

Fats Domino, Ray Charles, Johnny Cash, Billie Holiday, Otis Spann, Jean Redpath, Patsy Cline, Eddie Cochran, Sam Cooke, Smokey Robinson, The Temptations, Sam and Dave, Al Green, Isley Brothers, Stevie Wonder, Frank Zappa, The Meters, James Brown, Otis Redding, Gladys Knight, Martha Reeves, Sly Stone, Jackie Wilson, The Beachboys, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Byrds, The Zombies, Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix, The Band, Steeleye Span, Pentangle, Fairport Convention, Taj Mahal, Jimmy Cliff, The Maytalls, AWB, Tower Of Power, Earth Wind And Fire, The Allman Brothers, The Doobie Brothers, Little Feat, Orleans, The Dregs, Tim Ware Group, Steely Dan, The Police, The Pretenders, Squeeze, Rockpile, Richard Tee, Floyd Cramer, Hargus Robbins, Dina Bell, Manu Dibango, Hamza El Din, Dumisani Maraire, Fairouz, Sheila Chandra, Karan Casey, Bob Marley, Willie Nelson, Bonnie Raitt, Leon Russell, NRBQ, Aretha Franklin, Patti Labelle, The Pointer Sisters, Tracy Nelson, Michael Bloomfield, The Dixie Chicks, Madeleine Peyroux, Tuck Andress, Stanley Jordan, Leslie Garrett, Walter (Wendy) Carlos, Mark O'Connor, Gloria Estefan, U2, Emmylou Harris, Ry Cooder, Eric Clapton, Duke Robillard, Martin Grosswendt, Paul Murphy, Replacements, R.E.M., Of Montreal, Phish, James Khoury, Juliana Fraioli, Tom Khoury, Grüvis Malt, Yo-Yo Ma, Midori, Kronos Quartet, Chanticleer, Anonymous 4, Sequentia
 

Favorite Authors and Poets

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Dickens, Emily Dickinson, Gore Vidal, Thomas Berger, Tom Robbins, Kurt Vonnegut, John Irving, Joseph Heller, Ken Kesey, Thomas Pynchon, Peter Matthiessen, Richard Condon, Melville, Hemingway, James Tiptree Jr., Pierre Delattre, Mario Vargas Llosa, Shakespeare, e.e. cummings, Lu Hsun, Anais Nin, Robert Burns, Gary Snyder, Leonard Cohen, John Steinbeck, Mark Twain, D. H. Lawrence, Blake, Dumas, Conrad, Chaucer, Han-shan, Robert Bly, Ted Hughes, John Gardner, Homer, Umberto Eco, Douglas Adams, Jerzy Kosinski, John Fowles, Hesse, Knut Hamson, Norman Mailer, Tom Wolfe, James Clavell, Barry Gifford, Lewis Carroll, Harper Lee, Barbara Tuchman, Richard Rhodes, Thoreau, Lenny Bruce, Steven Wright, Darcy Steinke, Nicholson Baker, Laura Esquivel, John Le Carre, Richard Brautigan, Francine Prose, Salinger, Willa Cather, Yann Martel, Annie Proulx, Zadie Smith, Steven Hawking, Albert Einstein
 

Favorite Visual Artists, including Photographers, Filmmakers, Cartoonists, and One Architect

Michaelangelo, Da Vinci, Renoir, Van Gogh, Monet, Gaugin, Degas, Chagall, Picasso, Modigliani, Schiele, Matisse, Charon, Hiroshige, Hokusai, O'Keefe, Dali, Cartier-Bresson, Ansel Adams, Helmut Newton, Arthur Penn, Lina Wertmuller, Mike Nichols, Robert Altman, Jean-Jacques Annaud, Milos Forman, Martin Scorcese, Oliver Stone, Francis Ford Coppola, Werner Herzog, Nicholas Roeg, Stanley Kubrick, Michelangelo Antonioni, Bernardo Bertolucci, Roman Polanski, Clint Eastwood, Alfred Hitchcock, Ken Burns, B. Kliban, Gahan Wilson, Gary Larson, Don Bousquet, Berke Breathed, Frank Lloyd Wright