Reading and writing in the social sciences and humanities(the sub-list in these two general categories would be too long to post here; for example: philosophy and religion, history and psychology, sociology and media studies, etc.)  Other specific interests and activities include: walking, sleeping, eating and drinking, breathing properly, my family, my health, my wife’s garden and even some of my domestic chores. Beautiful things: buildings and people, nature and objets d’art; ideas and some items in and of the print and electronic media.

Making A List of Your Favorites—you younger members at this site might like to try this exercise, say, in another 40 years, if you survive the perils of: (a) skateboarding, (b) your love life, (c) your job life, (d) your other leisure pursuits, (e) your desires, passions, wants and wishes and (e) many other slings and arrows of outrageous fortune.
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In the three year period June 2002 to May 2005, I compiled periodically a list of my favorite music. It was an attempt to define, to give expression to, to list what has become for me a vast sea of pleasureable sounds produced in a number of genres of music. My first memories of listening to music were in about 1948, although I was exposed to music right from the word go in 1944 by two parents who played the piano. I would post the list here, but it is too long. It is a short list of over 60 years of musical experience, musical pieces I have enjoyed from a longer list of music that gave me pleasure, but it is, as I say, obviously too long to include here.

It is just a start to making a comprehensive list, a brief survey, a dip in the sea, so to speak. There were about 100 items in the initial list that I put together in the winter of 2002. I added to that list from time to time in the next three years and it came to well over 100 items. If I had continued to add to this list systematically and regularly the list would have become too long to be manageable. But the names of many of my favorites are here for my interest and occasionally to post at a website. Since it seems impossible for me to remember the names of many of the pieces, this list will assist me in bringing to memory these names when and if required. The exercise is interesting to me in its own right without any particular practical value.

Most of the items listed here are in my personal music collection(LPs, 45s, CDs and cassettes) or they are items that I have had access to temporarily on the radio, internet or as part of the collection of the local spiritual assembly of the Baha’is of Launceston.  As I began adding items to this list from what I heard on ABC FM Radio in and after 2002, it was obvious that, in the end, the list would become too long if I took the exercise seriously with any sense of making a comprehensive collection. What is found here serves as (a) a list of musical pieces I own/have access to in my collection and (b) a list of additional material I would like to have access to in my study, but do not.  As I say, this is a list of musical favorites that I will never bring to an end.  The sea is just too full. -Ron Price, Pioneering Over Four Epochs, May 8th 2005(22 September 2002).

CATEGORIES OF MUSIC:

A.1 CLASSICAL

1. Joaquin Rodrigo: Ecos de Sefarad-guitar.       
2. Joaquin Rodrigo:  need to familiarize myself with his repertoire to list items here.
3. Beethoven: Sonata #8 opus 13 and Violin Concerto in D, Opus 61
4. Beethoven: Symphonies: set 1-9. Esp: #5
5. Beethoven: Piano Sonatas 23/4
6. Beethoven: Piano Concerto #5
7. Beethoven: Fluer Elise
8. Beethoven: many other pieces-too long a list.
9. Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade
10. Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini.
10.1 Rachmaninov: Preludes, 10.2 Piano Concerto No.2 D Minor
10.3 Rachmaninov: several pieces to be defined
10.4 Rachmaninov: many other pieces-too long a list.
11.1 Chopin: Scherzo 1,2,3 and 4 ; 11.2 Ballads 1 to 4.
11.3 Chopin: Fantasie Impromptu
11.4 Chopin, 24 Preludes(C#minor,A-Flat-Major) 
11.5 Many other pieces of Chopin—too many to list.
10.1 Schubert: Fantasie in F. Minor, D 940.
10.2 Schubert: Ave Maria. Symphony #8 in B-minor
11.Puccini:One Fine Day, Madame Butterfly
12.Bach:Symphony No.2 E-minor
12.1Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No.1 in F; 12.2 No.6 in Bflat Major; No3, 4 and 5
12.3Bach: see my 20 record collection of Bach—too many to list all the pieces here, but some include: 12.3.1 Orchestral Suite No.3
13.  Debussy: Claire de Lune.
13.1 Debussy: Preludes, esp.”Girl With the Flaxen Hair.”
14.Mozart: Sonatas for Piano; 14.2 Divertimenti for strings, Adagio & Fugue in C Minor; 14.3 Piano concertos K488/459; 14.4 Symphony #40 in C minor; 14.5 Nachtmusik
15.  Vivaldi: Violin Concerti #3; trumpet concerti for 4 violins
16. Berlioz: Symphony Fantastique
17.Liszt: Concerto No.1 in E Flat Major
18. Hayden: Concerto in D. Major
19. Dvorak: New World Symphony; symphony #3; cello concerto in b minor, op.104; symphonic variations.
20. Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.6
21. Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto D Major
22.  Handel: Water Music
35.  Massinet: Meditations
36.  Brahms, Symphony No.1 in C-Minor

A.2 CONTEMPORARY CLASSICAL

1. Elgar: Cello Concerto, 1st Movement, J. du Pre
2. Eric Satie, Gymnopedies

B. FOLK/POPULAR:

B.1 Baha’i CDs(50 in April 2005;40 in August 2002)

1. Parrish and Toppano, The Shores of This Great Ocean(Call Out to Zion)
2. Parrish and Toppano, Royal Falcon(Royal Falcon& The Girl That I Never Knew)
3. Hummingbird, Dash Crofts
5. Advance Guards, Dash Crofts
6. One Planet One People, Dash Crofts
7. Windflower, Dan Seals and Dash Crofts
8. We May Never Pass This Way Again, Crofts
9.  Hollow Reed, Crofts
10. One Planet One People, Crofts
11. East of Ginger Trees, Seals and Crofts
12. Angela Wood, Gentle Warrior
13. Year of Sunday, Seals and Crofts
14. Grant Hinden Miller, all his CDs
15. Radio Nur 2002
16. The Voices of Baha: Live At Carnegie Hall
17. Many new CDs are produced annually—too many to list here
—I have listed elsewhere 50 CDs used for Launceston LSA programs on City Park Radio. These 50 CDS have many individual songs—too many to list here.

Some films from a list of 100s seen from 1948 to 2008:

1. Dead Poets Society
2. Mrs. Doubtfire
3. Lawrence of Arabia
4. Chindler’s List/Spielberg
5. The Insider
6. Murder as Art
10. Birth of a Nation
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I have a list of some 100 films about which I have kept notes and written prose-poems. The above list are some random choices from my long list.

Although my experience with the print and electronic media: TV, radio, newspapers, magazines, journals, hi-fis, cassette tapes, CDs—what has become a cornucopia of stimulating media—began insensibly and sensibly by 1950, the formal study of these media did not begin until my early 30s when I taught media studies at the Ballarat CAE from 1976 to 1978. Again in the 1980s and 1990s at Tafe colleges in northern Australia and then at the Thornlie Tafe College in Perth media studies became a curriculum subject on my agenda.

When I retired from teaching in 1999 I kept three arch-lever files of notes on media studies and in the eight years since, 1999 to 2007, these three files have become six arch-lever files and two 2-ring binders. At the school for seniors here in George Town media studies became part on my teaching activity yet again.

It has been more than sixty years since the media became a part of my life, first the radio, newspapers and magazines that were part of my parents’ experience as early as 1944 when I was in the cradle. The story of the relationship between the print and electronic media and my life over these years is a long and complex one. Now