Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Copland, Gershwin, Borodin, Hayden, Elgar, Dave Brubeck, Grieg, Sibelius, The Chieftans, various Celtic musicians, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Sinatra, Louis Armstrong, Yolanda Kondonassis (harp), Hillary Hahn (violin), Izstak Pearlman (violin), Count Basie, Alison Balsam (trumpet), E. Power Biggs (baroque organ), Lynn Larsen (theatre organ), The Cambridge Singers/John Rutter (choral), etc. Often I let the local NPR Classical station, KBAQ, program the music for me.
Rock may tend to make one hyper, which is at odds with keeping a steady hand.
Bruce
"You can't have everything--where would you put it?"