well my favorite type of music is classical music and uh i i enjoy orchestral classical music and i enjoy classical guitar and classical piano
you know and that's
those are my that's my favorite type uh probably the favorite instrument would be uh the violin
well
oh well my favorite well i i don't really have a favorite i i like everything basically um
i guess if i had to pick it would be like
like pop i would think
but i like everything so it's kind of hard to choose sometimes
yeah you know i guess i enjoy i enjoy jazz listening to jazz sometime although i don't feel like i have a good
good good understanding of it or a good a good good feel for maybe what's good jazz and what's not but but um i enjoy it and uh
sometimes i enjoy listening to uh fiddle music we were in Colorado recently and heard this
um-hum
these uh
well we heard this fiddler and we bought his we bought his tape and it's kind of fun to listen to the fiddle pans
yeah
so
i grew up next door to uh the Richardson Symphony Orchestra leader so
oh Chris Xeros oh you lucky thing
yeah
so we used to go and listen to them all the time and my parents still do
yeah
so i grew up with a lot of his music and and what not
plus my parents are well especially my dad likes a lot of classical music and he introduced my brother and i both to a lot of it
so
oh gosh Chris Xeros you grew up with his children too then
yeah
oh gosh
yeah sure did
gosh small world huh
yeah we all went to high school together and we're still in contact with each other we all go back to parents' houses on the weekends and what not so
oh
oh gosh well actually i used to play in the Richardson Symphony i played violin in the orchestra for several years
oh really
you know yeah so
it is a small world isn't it
yeah small world so i you know i know Chris
yeah he a pretty nice guy
most of the time
yeah well i never i had to work for him and i never would want to work for him so
no no well life just took different turns here so uh it just doesn't work out to do that now so he's he's about ready to retire another year and he
yeah
yeah he sure is he just became a grandfather
yeah i heard that it's it's daughter it's his daughter that
uh uh-huh yeah they just had the baby's christening so
oh
it was really nice so
was it a boy or a girl
he's a little boy
yeah what did they name him
i can't it it's a
oh gosh it's like Elijah or something like that
oh
i keep forgetting what what she named him
oh
his middle name is Chris or Christopher for for her daddy but i think it's Elijah
of course
oh yeah yeah
it starts with an E
i can't remember
oh so you've heard the Richardson Symphony yeah
yes yeah we've heard them and liked liked it real well of course
yeah
do you have a favorite instrument
um
actually one of my favorite instruments is a harpsichord
yes
i really like those in fact i had a harpsichord played at my wedding
oh did you
yeah
oh
which was real nice i got married uh during the Christmas season and we we played uh old fashioned Christmas carols instead of normal wedding marches and what not and it was real nice i liked that a lot
oh
i liked the sound of the harpsichord
and it played by itself
no somebody played it
well i mean but you didn't have oboe or something with it
no no no no no just by itself just by itself
oh
yeah oh well that's really yeah that's i bet that was nice
it was real nice
yeah it went well it was a change you know from your traditional normal
normal normal you know stuff and since it was Christmas time and and uh we had the church decorated with Christmas hollies and poinsettias and you know stuff like that and
oh
so we did the harpsichord with old time traditional Christmas carols not not you know the bouncy you know sing along kind but
right
right
some of the old older ones that some i don't even i recognize the the melodies and whatnot but i didn't recognize the names
right right
so
it was real nice
well actually i play i play the violin in in a string quartet that often plays at weddings
um
so um i always think it's a nice break from the traditional organ or piano
uh-huh
and it makes it makes it nice it makes you know you can say classy or it makes an elegant wedding to have something else
it does
it really really does and it it has such a different sound to it anyway it's almost i don't know the way it vibrates it's kind of haunting you know on on some of the notes it it's i'd i like it
oh
i don't know how else to explain but we've got friends that are in the music business that go around Dallas they're uh called Odessa it's a husband and wife team that we've known for years and
we try to make contact with them periodically to see what's going on and stuff too so we've had a lot of
stuff you know friends and and things to do with music that constant and plus my husband's real big into music too so he doesn't play anything but
yeah
he just likes to listen and my dad
and my kids are now well my oldest is getting to the point where he likes certain types of music and favorite songs and when they come on we have to turn the radio up full blast and
oh now does does the school in in your in your city does it
does it offer like band or some of the instruments
yeah well my my oldest is only nine so he he hasn't really gotten into um that yet they have choir that they go to you know music class that they go to but um
okay
right
he's not old enough yet to get into the band yet
right uh right
so i think that starts in sixth grade
probably oh gosh
so
but i don't know he he shows he the only thing he's really shown interest in wanting to play is the drums cause his my my brother plays
and um
i i don't i don't know if he's really serious about it yet or not you know it's just one of those things i'm just going to wait and see if he's interested in something you know
yeah
right
right you got a little ways to go too right
yeah just a little bit
great wow well my my oldest is eight and and she's we've started her on piano so uh
uh
but that's been it's been fun i mean it's a lot of work to see that she's prepared but it's been fun it's it's been fun i feel like i've learned a lot about the piano i've learned a lot about playing the piano
really
and uh it kind of makes me listen a little closer to to the piano when i hear it at other places or when i you know see some see and hear someone playing i sort of watch their technique too and
and see if it corresponds up to what she's learning
yeah
so it's been fun
so
i don't know if any of mine will be interested in it or
