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Inspired by Heather Heise, I’d like to share with you a few things I hold quite dear to my heart: music that makes me cry, for all the same reasons enumerated by Heather that I could not have more honestly articulated myself: out of joy, out of great loss and heartbreak, out of the beauty that is nostalgia, that I’m not at all ashamed to admit.

• Rachmaninoff, Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Op. 27
• Rachmaninoff, Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30
• Dvorak, Adagio from Symphony No. 8 in G major, Op. 88
• Tchaikovsky, Tema con variazioni from Suite No. 3 in G major, Op. 55
• Borodin, In the Steppes of Central Asia