As an older chamber music pianist and accompanist, I'm looking, ideally, for someone (instrumentalist or vocalist) with whom I can make serious music together, or at the very least, for someone to whom serious (art) music has more meaning than as a pleasant background. It would be nice, as well, to have a companion with whom to attend the concerts of the excellent Oregon Symphony Orchestra and other concerts of serious music in the northwestern part of this state.
Another interest is architecture -- especially that of such people as Louis Sullivan, H.H. Richardson, George Elmslie, Fr. Ll. Wright, and others who created at the fin-de-siècle (ca. 1900). In fact, I enjoy most of the buildings from that period, and love as well to visit old small towns where one might discover an ornate old lodge hall, or an opera house, or an interesting old church building [notwithstanding the fact that I'm emphatically NOT a person of faith].
My favorite playwright is Samuel Beckett, and I admire and enjoy the writing of the American Paul Auster, who was heavily influenced by Beckett, among others. Some of the earlier, now neglected plays by Tennessee Williams are dear to my heart, too.
A reliable vehicle is one of my possessions, so I'm quite willing to travel to meet a potential new friend, and, if things were to work out, to move from this cow-town of Corvallis, where I presently reside.
Thanks for reading this! Let me know something of YOUR interests and passions, as well as of your frustrations, dislikes, and worries. Maybe we can make each other's life a little richer, or help smoothe the vexations that are inevitable.