Albert has been obsessed with fiddle music for years, so much so that his classmates call him Music Gore.
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His background is in music for TV and film but he has found a platform in games which lets him compose music for a new medium to a new audience.
But sometimes the music or what he was reading would all of a sudden cease to act on him or, worse, he would fall into despair or irritation, no longer able to see the bright horizon promised to him by music, by reading, by the art of imagination and the excitement of a sensitive heart.
What is particularly important to him is that the music industry has made it clear to him that it values HMV - as an alternative to price-cutting online retailers and supermarkets that offer very limited choice.
But all around him, the music is bursting with sunshine and big thrumming refrain that exude a contagious optimism.
Mark O'Connor is an acknowledged master folk fiddler, but his musical interests have also led him into classical music's concert halls.
It was his father's sudden death when Gergiev was just 14 that drew him closer to music and eventually led to conducting.
Lerche bargained his guitar teacher into letting him learn Brazilian music instead.
Since I had him to myself in the studio, I seized an opportunity to talk to him about his music for the Lee documentary.
He is excited by the opportunity of playing for an audience who knows neither him or his music, describing himself as an "exotic animal".
Many believe he got a free pass from perfunctory earlier hearings, and they welcome these new opportunities to have him face the music of serious inquiry.
The song, which he said was his favourite, revived a flagging career and won him the Country Music Award's top male vocalist award in 1980 and 1981.
Havens, a Brooklyn, New York, native, told CNN in 1999 that music enabled him to leave his rough neighborhood to head to Greenwich Village and the music scene there.
"Some people at the time, and since, called him the Jackie Robinson of country music, but nobody who followed him has yet reached that level, " Rumble said.
Haimovitz says that seeing punk rock fans sitting next to classical music afficionados in a smoky dive bar has awakened him to the power of music to bring people together.
This is what Jim Nayder does for a living: He listens to really bad music, much of it sent in to him by listeners of his Annoying Music Show on Chicago Public Radio.
But we caught up with him shortly before he left his post, and here's what he had to say about the music that kept him moving.
Some say it was Clara who encouraged him to transform the music into a full-fledged concerto.
Childhood friends recall that Edmund's parents were overprotective and wouldn't even let him listen to rock music.
He said audiologists had warned him that "personal music systems were already destroying the hearing quality of many young people".
Most days he's able to feel the music rejuvenate him as simply as if he were filling a car with gasoline.
Koushik's parents, who emigrated from Calcutta to Ontario in the '60s, had him studying classical Indian music when he was a boy.
Brown, it seems, will always have a place to tell his story and that will help him continue to sell music.
He dreamed of being a concert pianist, but a teacher discouraged him from pursuing classical music, saying Styne's hands would never be big enough.
Al-Sheikhly says the music makes him nostalgic for old times.
Eventually, his love for music led him to open a record store, where in 2004 he met Black Wolf, a talented vocalist and songwriter who'd been performing in and around the Milwaukee area since the 1970s.
Then, in 2000, he sold everything he owned except for his motorcycle and a few things he could fit into his backpack and began a trip that took him to several skinhead music festivals across the country, according to a interview posted on Label56.com.
He said the accident had made him more passionate about his music than ever.
It is hard to predict where Bird's music will take him and his fans next.
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