Tagged with a Music Meme

Suzanne R tagged me for this meme; here are the rules:
1. Name between 5 & 10 songs that have made an impact on your life. I'll leave it up to you to decide how many you wish to describe.
2. Pass it onto five other people with a link back to your own post and this one as the original.

So here goes:
When one is older the mind gets stranger, add having chemo on top of that and you get really weird. So it takes my brain cells longer to kick in than the average bear/cat/dog, what have you. Here's some of the 5 or so kinds of music that impacted/impacts my life and what it meant/means to me.

1. I am a classical music person and listen to Oregon's FM public radio's, All Classical station out of Portland most of the day. There is a request program on Sunday afternoons that I participate in, so in order to get things right I have to go look things up on the net…composer and stuff like that, before I submit my little request. Anyway, the first piece of music that comes to my mind is my all-time favorite, Toccata and Fugue by Johann Sebastian Bach. I learned to play some of this on the organ as a girl in Savannah, Georgia (by some of this, I mean the piece is twelve pages long and I think I got pretty good at the first five and a half pages before I moved away from home. So I've not had an organ again until about seven years ago. When I started playing again, I can still only get through the first five and half pages, reasonably recognizable. But whenever I hear it being played I stop and listen carefully, I can see every note as it's written on page. Part of this piece was featured in Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.

2. I really like Rhapsody on a Theme by Niccolo Paganini, played by Rachmaninov. It was the theme song to Somewhere In Time with Christopher Reeves and Jane Seymour. My all-time favorite actor, actress and movie.

3. Another favorite composer is Edvard Grieg. Morning Mood, Spring, Hall of the Mountain King, Anitra's Dance, Wedding Day at Troldhaugen, and many more. I became familiar with Grieg's, Morning Mood when the movie Soylent Green was so popular. The old man requested that piece when he lay in the dying room. Or whatever it was called. I want that piece of music, Morning Mood, played at my funeral…someday.

4. On a more popular note, popular music of the 50's and early 60's is my favorite. I think you young folks call them Golden Oldies. I absolutely love Somewhere Over the Rainbow (Wizard of Oz with Judy Garland). Then there's the Beach Boys, and all that rock n' roll era. I recently posted Sealed With a Kiss for awhile on Gretchen's Paw Prattle, in memory of her sweetie in Sweden who's human's are away on a very long vacation. Blue Velvet, Blue on Blue, Roses are Red (My Love) by Bobby Vinton were/are some of the dreamy music I loved to dance to when I was a teenager with my first love. And of course I loved Elvis, the younger, thinner Elvis.

5. As far as today's music is concerned…there are a lot of beautiful and memorable songs out there. Michael Crawford and anything he sings, I like. I like country music, old and new. I like folk or mountain music, blue grass and Irish music. Or Celtic, however you want to call it these days. There's a lot of music I hear that I like but really don't pay that close attention to the titles or the singers. Basically, I'm a little bit country, a little bit rock n' roll and a lot of classical.

Okay, now I challenge 5 others to do this. Maybe it will be easier for you. My apologies ahead of time if you've already been tagged and I wasn't paying attention…if so, just ignore me.
1. Paula, because she's my daughter and I tag her for everything I get.
2. Meeyauw, because she's a really great photographer friend in Vermont, so I'm sure there's music in there somewhere.
3. Gattina, because she's my age and lives in Belgium and I'm interested in what kinds of music she likes.
4. Mom Unplugged, because she's got a houseful of kids unplugged from the TV, so surely there's music interests to be found there, also.
5. Teabird, at Tea Leaves, because this friend is a New York Librarian and loves books and knitting, so music has to be important to her as well.

(I would have named my good friend in Tennessee, Thomma Lyn, but I know she's buried in her writing right now, so I'll leave her out of this one.)