Roy Hayes

FAVE COMPOSERS: Addinsell, Albinoni, Albéniz, Allegri, J.S. Bach, W.F. Bach, J.C. Bach, C.P.E. Bach, Balakirev, Barber, Bardi, Bernstein, Bizet, Boccherini, Boieldieu, Borodin (also my fave chemist), Boyce (Dr. Boyce would've been the King's composer if the King and Handl weren't both a couple of Krauts!), Anouar Brahem, Brahms, Britten, Bob Brookmeyer, Dave Brubeck, Brule, Byrd, Cadenet, Canteloube, Cavalieri, Cécile Chaminade, Chabrier, Charpentier, Chausson, Chopin, Clementi, Chick Corea, Corelli, Cutting, D'Indy, de Murcia, Debussy, DeFalla, Delibes, Paul Desmond (he not Brubeck composed "Take Five"), Ditersdorf, Dowland, Dufay, Dukas, Dvorak, Elgar, Ellington, Gil Evans, Fauré, John Field, Gerald Finzi, Frescobaldi, Gershwin, Orlando Gibbons, Giuliani, Glass (but only in small doses-like maybe a shot-Glass), Glière, Gluck, Gorecki, Granados, Alexander Gretchaninov, Grieg, Grofé, Haydnl, Hildegard von Bingen, Hindemith, Dave Holland, Holst, Hovhaness, Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Infante, Ippolitov-Ivanov, Janácek, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Josquin Des Prez, Kabalevsky, Keiko Matsui, Khatchaturian, Lalo, Leonin, Liszt, Locatelli, Mahler, Malvezzi, Henry Mancini, Manfredini, Marcello, Marenzio, Massenet, Mendelssohn, Johnny Mercer, Messiaen, Milhaud, Thelonious Monk, Monteverdi, Morales, Morelenbaum, Mussorgsky, Nielsen, O'Carolan, Johannes Ockeghem, Offenbach, Orff, Pachelbel (a friend's grandson says he loves "Taco Bell's Canon", Arvo Pärt, Paco Peña, Paganini, Palestrina, Perotin, Pez, Piazzolla, Pierne, Ponchielli, Cole Porter, Primavera, Prokofieff, Puccini, Purcell, Rachmninoff, Rameau, Ravel, Rimsky-Korsakov, Rodrigo, Rosetti, Pierre de la Rue, John Rutter, St-Saëns, Satie, Scarlatti, Schubert, Schumann, Segovia, Shankar, Shostakovich, Sibelius, Les Six, Smetana, Sor, Josef Suk, John Surman, J. Strauss Sr., J. Strauss Jr., R. Strauss, Suppé, Tallis, Tartini, Taverner, Tedesco, Telemann, Theodorakis, Toru Takemitsu, Turina, Tárrega, Tórroba, Uccellini, Vangelis, Vaqueiras, Vaughn Williams, Veloso, Ventadorn, Vieuxtemps, Villa-Lobos, Vivaldi, Waldteufel, Peter Warlock (Phillip Heseltine), Wayne Shorter, Widor, hundreds of others, FAVE ARTISTS: Glenn Gould, Hillary Hahn, Yo Yo Ma, Dawn Upshaw, Rafael Mendez, dozens of others

Here's a partial list of my reading and recommendations for what it's worth:, Henry Adams - The Education of Henry Adams, Aeschylus - Almost everything, Aesop - The Fables, Nelson Algren - A Walk on the Wild Side, Eric Ambler - The Levanter, almost everything else too, Anonymous - Gilgamesh, Anonymous - Beowulf, Hannah Aendt - The Human Condition, Aristophanes - The Wasps, The Birds, The Frogs, Lysistrata, Aristotle - Poetics, W. H. Auden - Almost everything, Isaac Babel - Odessa Tales, Balzac - Almost everything, Basho - Everything, Baudelaire - Les Fleurs du Mal, Beaumont & Fletcher - Almost everything, Samuel Beckett - Waiting for Godot, End Game, Brendan Behan - Borstal Boy, all the stage plays, Edward Behr - Hirohito (Behind the Myth) [in effect the unmasking of a war criminal and the most successful PR campaign in history], Saul Bellow - The Adventures of Augie March, Henderson the Rain King, Gerald Berry - Religions of the World, Ambrose Bierce - In The Midst of Life, Geoffrey Blainey - The Causes of War, William Blake - The Poetry & Prose (ed Erdman & Bloom), Boccaccio - The Decameron, Heinrich Böll - Almost everything, Simon van Booey - The Hidden Lives of People in Love, James Boswell - London Journal, Christy Brown - Down All the Days, Gottfried Buerger - Baron Munchhusen's Miraculous Adventures on Land, Mikhail Bulgakov - The Master and Margarita, Eugene Burdick - The Ninth Wave, Kenneth Burke - The Philosophy of Literary Form, Robert Burns - The Poems & Songs, Richard Francis Burton - Arabian Nights (abridged), Robert Burton - The Anatomy of Melancholy, Byron - As much of the poems as you can take, Camus - Almost all of it, except The Myth of Sisyphus, Lewis Carroll - Everything, C. P. Cavafy - The Complete Poems, Louis Ferdinand Celine - Death on the Installment Plan, Central Intelligence Agency - The World Fact Book, Cervantes - The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha, Chaucer - The Canterbury Tales, Chekov - Almost everything, but primarily the short stories, Chretien de Troyes - Arthurian Romances, Jean Cocteau - La Belle et la Bete, Orfee [movies scripts], Samuel Taylor Coleridge - The shortest collection you can find, Colette - Everything (then go back and read everything again 2 more times), Conrad - Lord Jim, Nostromo, Tristan Corbiere - Selections, Les Amours Jaunes, Pierre Corneille - Le Cid, Hart Crane - The Bridge, Stephen Crane - Collected Prose & Poems, e e cummings - The Complete Poems, Gabriele D'Annunzio - The Triumph of Death, The Flame, Richard Henry Dana - Two Years Before the Mast, Dante Alighieri - The Divine Comedy, George Darley - Nepenthe, William Henry Davies - Autobiography of a Supertramp, Charles Darwin - On The Origin of Species, Walter de la Mare - Memoirs of a Midget, whatever of the poems and essays you have time for, Thomas de Quincy - Confessions of an Opium Eater, Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts, Vera Micheles Dean - The Nature of the Non-Western World, Daniel Defoe - Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders, A Journal of the Plague Year, Len Deighton - Funeral in Berlin, Bomber, John Dewey - Reconstruction in Philosophy, Emily Dickenson - Not too much of her, though - you'll get dizzy, Isak Dinesen - Pick and choose, her stories are a delicious smorgasbord, Milovan Djilas - The Stone and the Violets, J. P. Donleavy - The Ginger Man, John dos Passos - U S A, Dostoyevsky - The Brothers Karamazov, Crime & Punishment, Conan Doyle - The Complete Novels and Stories, Dryden - Mac Flecknoe, Alexandre Dumas - The Three Musketeers, The Four Musketeers, Will & Ariel Durant - The Age of Voltaire, Lawrence Durrell - The Alexandria Quartet, The Black Book (everything else he wrote suffers in comparison, T. S. Eliot - All of the early poems, Murder in the Cathedral, George Eliot - Middlemarch, Euripides - Almost everything, he's the original nonconformist, Faulkner - All the prewar writing, except Mosquitos, The Marble Faun, and Soldier's Pay, Faulkner, again! - Read The Sound and the Fury at least three times, Leslie Fiedler - Love and Death in the American Novel, Henry Fielding - The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby, Flaubert - Madame Bovary, E. M. Forster - A Passage to India, George McDonald Frazier - The Flashman novels, 3 & 4 Musketeers movies, Max Frisch - Man in the Holocene, Bluebeard, David Fromkin - A Peace to End All Peace (The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East), Robert Frost - Almost everything, Federico Garcia Lorca - Poet in New York, John Gardner - Grendel, On Writers & Writing, On Moral Fiction, Andre Gide - The Immoralist, Stuart Gilbert - James Joyce's Ulysses, a study (written with the help of Joyce himself), God, Moses, et al - The Old Testament, King James Version, William Golding - Everything, especially his essays on writing in A Moving Target, Gunther Grass - Almost everything, Robert Graves - The White Goddess, the poems, The Greek Myths, I Claudius, Graham Greene - The Quiet American, Bret Harte - Almost everything, Heinrich Heine - As much as you can get your hands on, Joseph Heller - Catch 22 (but nothing else), Ernest Hemingway - Everything, but mostly Sun Also Rises and the early short stories, Hermann Hesse - Beneath the Wheel is okay, but avoid Siddhartha and Steppenwolf (hyperventilating nonsense), Homer - The Iliad, The Odyssey, Victor Hugo - Les Miserables (When asked whom he considered France's greatest poet, Gide replied, "Hugo … alas!"), Christmas Humphreys - Buddhism, Aldous Huxley - Everything, Eugene Ianesco - The Bald Soprano, Robinson Jeffers - Everything (especially Roan Stallion and Tamar) except The Women of Point Sur, James Jones - From Here to Eternity, James Joyce - Dubliners and Ulysses, but only after the Gilbert (above), Erica Jong - Fear of Flying, Juvenal - The Satires, Franz Kafka - Almost everything, Omar Kayyám - The Rubáiyát ("Five Authorized Versions" edition), Rudyard Kipling - The novels, Heinrich von Kleist - The Marquise of O-, Krishnamurti - Think on These Things, Milan Kundera - The Joke, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, Laclos - Les Liassons Dangereuses, John Le Carre - Most everything, Robert Lindner - The Fifty-Minute Hour, Must You Conform?, Prescription for Rebellion, Harold Livingston - Coasts of the Earth, Niccolo Machiavelli - The Prince, the Discourses, Charles Mackay - Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Norman Maclean - A River Runs Through It, Thomas Mann - The Holy Sinner, The Confessions of Felix Krull Confidence Man, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, et al - The New Testament, King James Version, W. Somerset Maugham - Everything, Guy de Maupassant - The short stories, interspersed with Chekov's, Andre Maurois - Prophets and Poets, Carson McCullers - Everything, Arthur Miller - Death of a Salesman, Yukio Mishima - The Sea of Fertility tetralogy, Moliere - The six Big Plays attacking hypocrisy & pious ignorance, Michel Eyquem de Montaigne - Selected Essays, Inzazo Nitobe - Bushido the Soul of Japan, John O'Hara - The short stories, George Orwell - Everything, John Osborne - Tom Jones (filmscript), Eric Partridge - Origins (subtitled "A Short Etymological Dictionary of Modern English" and weighing in at 970 pages - so what was the long one like?), Jean Piaget - The Moral Judgement of the Child, Plato - Everything, Katherine Ann Porter - Flowering Judas, The Days Before, Ship of Fools, Ezra Pound - The Confucian Odes, Jaques Prevert - Almost everything, Francois Rabelais - Gargantua & Pantagruel, Racine - Phaedra, Theodor Reik - The Search Within, Erich Maria Remarque - Arch of Triumph, Rainer Maria Rilke - Letters to a Young Poet, Duino Elegies, Rimbaud - Almost everything, Alain Robbe-Grillet - The Voyeur (it's like "The Stranger" on acid), La Maison de Rendez-vous (both to be read for style, not substance), Harold Robbins - The Carpetbaggers (but nothing else!), Theodore Roosevelt - The Strenuous Life, Judith Rossner - Looking for Mr. Goodbar, Rafael Sabatini - Scaramouche, Saki - The Open Door, J. D. Salinger - Everything, Sapho - Everything, again and again, William Saroyan - Everything, Arthur Schopenhauer - Essays and Aphorisms, Sir Walter Scott - Ivanhoe, William Shakespeare - Everything … four times!, H. Allen Smith - Mr. Zip, Sophocles - Everything, Terry Southern - The Magic Christian, Candy, John Steinbeck - To a God Unknown & almost everything else, except Grapes of Wrath and the other political novels, Stendhal - Charter House of Parma, Red & Black, R L Stephenson - Kidnapped, Travels with a Donkey, various essays, A Child's Garden of Verses, not too much of the other stuff, Laurence Sterne - Tristram Shandy, Sun-tzu - The Art of War, J onathan Swift - Gulliver's Travels, Abram Tertz (Andrei Sinyavsky) - The Trial Begins, Goodnight!, Dylan Thomas - Almost everything, Hunter S. Thompson - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Thucydides - The Peloponnesian War, Tolstoy - War & Peace, Turgenev - The Hunting Sketches, Mark Twain - Everything, Verlaine - Everything, Francois Villon - The complete works, Virgil - The Aneid, Georgi Vladimov - Faithful Ruslan, Voltaire - Candide, Zadig, Evelyn Waugh - Most of the early stuff, Nathanael West - Everything, Oscar Wilde - Penguin's "The Portable Oscar Wilde" (You have to wade through the stinkers, though), Peter Williams & David Wallace - Unit 731 (Japan's Secret Biological Warfare in WWII), Angus Wilson - Anglo Saxon Attitudes, Colin Wilson - The Outsider, Edmund Wilson - The Shock of Recognition, Virginia Woolf - To the Lighthouse, Thomas Wolfe - The Perkins-edited novels, but only in small doses, Tom Wolfe - the non-fiction anthologies [the novels are forgettable], Ernest Wood - Yoga, Thomas Wyatt - The Complete poems, Xenophon - The Persian Expedition, About 500 or so other writers, maybe 10, 000 or so other books, plays, stories, etc - okay okay maybe one or two fewer

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Bern, Solothurn, Boston, Vienna, the High Sierra (12, 500 ft elevation and above with only hiking/backpacking access), Tourmaline surfing beach, my dining table when it is loaded with pasta primavera and bottles of good wine and surrounded by amusing and literate friends, any chair in my house that has a good book in easy reach (which describes every chair in my house)

Reading, Writing, Music, Politics, sharing pasta primavera and zinfandel with friends, sharing beer and salted cashews with my cat e e cummings, backpacking and mountaineering and surfing (but had to end years ago due to bad spine), tactical pistol shooting, the outdoors, birdwatching, etc. (Mini-bio can be found at www.solothurnli.com)