Together, let's explore the music!

My musical memories go back to age three or four, when my dad played recordings of the Nutcracker Suite, Beethoven’s Fifth, and Schubert’s Unfinished while I was falling asleep. At age thirteen my interest in classical music sparked, and I exhausted my father’s well-chosen but limited selection of LPs and tapes. Over the next five years I plumbed the record collections of the Worthington and Columbus (Ohio) Public Libraries, expanding my knowledge of orchestral music from Beethoven to Stravinsky. Subsequently as a music student at Cincinnati and Indiana my tastes widened to all periods of music history and more genres: including chamber music, choral music and opera.

After completing degrees in composition and conducting, I chose to pursue a degree in Computer Science and went on to a thirty-seven year career as a software engineer. But during all those years as an engineer, my love of classical music never waned, and my curiosity to learn more continued unabated.

Over my life I’ve acquired deep knowledge of a considerable body of the classical music repertoire. With Explore Great Music with Ted, I want to leave a legacy of a lifetime of love and learning about great music.