Here’s a selection of some of my favorite pieces. Listen, reflect, enjoy, smile, and cry. Be grateful for your life and the gift of another day. This list is a work in progress.

Christmas Eve by Daniel Pinkham and Robert Hillyer

Tomaso Albinoni: Adagio perm. by Stejepan Hauser

Patricia Barber: Cafe Blue

Samuel Barber: Adagio for Strings

Black Crowes: She Talks to Angels

Dave Brubeck: Take Five

Frédéric Chopin: Nocturne No. 20 perf. by Wladyslaw Szpilman, “The Pianist”

Aaron Copland: Copland Conducts Appalachian Spring

Aaron Copland: Fanfare for the Common Man

Aaron Copland: Quiet City

Deep Forest: Sweet Lullaby

Five for Fighting: 100 Years: Music Video

Lisa Gerrard and Pieter Bourke: Sacrifice

George Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue perf. by Leonard Bernstein, New York Philharmonic

Robert Glasper: So Beautiful

Vince Guaraldi: The Vince Guaraldi Collection

Helios: Coast Off

Janis Joplin: Me and Bobby McGee (Official Music Video)

Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 5: IV. Adagietto. Sehr langsam

Modest Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition conducted by Herbert von Karajan

Thomas Newman: Soundtrack Score Suite Phenomenon (1996)

Arvo Pärt: Spiegel im Spiegel for Cello and Piano

Max Richter: On The Nature Of Daylight (Entropy)

Erik Satie: Gnossiennes 1-6

Omar Sosa: Esperanza

Omar Sosa: Senses

Omar Sosa and Seckou Keita: Transparent Water

Omar Sosa: Trio Chemirani – Azadeh

Rush: Tom Sawyer

Tomás Luis de Victoria: O Magnum Mysterium

Jimmy Webb: The Highwayman (live) – 3rd April 1994 at BBC

Xaver Varnus Plays Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D Minor in the Berliner Dom