Anybody a classical music fan here

[DeSwiss]

20. A HUGE FAN!

- I LOVE ALL MUSIC really. But I cut my teeth listening to my mother playing Horowitz and Cliburn, and Bernstein.

About a year or so ago, I began listening to the youth orchestras and the youth festivals clips on Youtube. These young'uns seem to bring new life to the old standards. The older professional classical musicians will more often sit calmly and play the most exacting and complex pieces -- or emotionally uplifting -- and you'd never know they were even listening to themselves from their expressions, because they've done it so may times before.

But these young people are still freshly in-love with the music and it shows. They can't sit still while they play it. The Gustav Mahler Jugend Orchester is an absolute favorite:

(The First Chair here is outstanding!)

As well as the Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra:

Here is Anna Federova a student of the Royal College of Music in London and studies with Leonid Margarius at the Accademia Pianistica Incontri col Maestro:

And this young woman finalist from the 2013 YPF -- Rosalía Gómez Lasheras:

Those kids can rock!!!

And then I could never not mention three of my favorite pianists, first, the world-renown child-prodigy -- now all grown up -- the incomparable Yuja Wang:

And a ''newcomer'' who found her fame and fortune simply by posting her stuff freely on Youtube and attracted record company contract offers as a result -- my favorite Ukrainian: Valentina Lisitsa:

And the old man of the bunch, Murray Perahia:

(It's call Head & Shoulders, Murray!)

And in the category of conductors one of my top three favs, I give you Valery Gergiev:

I have to listen to music daily. Have to.