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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Orfew, post: 4550695, member: 74968&quot;]I write, read, play music and teach. Okay, maybe a bit more detail would not be a bad thing. I grew up reading. I was a precocious reader which just means I learned to read without any formal instruction. I was just over the age of 3 when the family stories say I just started reading everything around me and in more than one language LOL. The reading has not stopped. During my undergrad in English I fell in love with Middle English and Anglo Saxon. I have not read any Anglo Saxon in a number of years but I do thumb through my Chaucer (in the original dialect of course) every month or so. I studied a few other dead languages over the years and enjoyed it immensely. I went on to complete several degrees and ended up teaching at a university. I have taught at a university in various capacities for the last couple of decades. I started off in a faculty of education which included graduate and undergraduate courses. I then spent ten years in a department of applied linguistics. I am now preparing to teach again for the faculty of education. While in person I can be a bit shy from time to time that all changes when you put me in front of a few hundred people in a classroom. That is where I really come to life.</p><p><br /></p><p>I love the coins for the history. I have always been a reader and collecting these coins has led me to some very interesting reading. Besides coins I also play the guitar quite often. I have played a musical instrument since I was a kid. I grew up in an area of Canada where everyone I knew played at least one instrument and sometimes 5-6 of them. I started off playing a Glockenspiel and went on to try other instruments over the years. I used to play with a few bands but now I usually play alone. Still trying my had at songwriting and I have seem ideas I am working through.</p><p><br /></p><p>As [USER=10461]@lordmarcovan[/USER] mentioned above there is a connection between modern rock and&nbsp; classical music. Here is an example. Listen to the first pieces for a minute of 2 and then listen to the second. There are more examples of course. The story is Paul McCartney was practicing Bach on the guitar and came up with Blackbird.</p><p><br /></p><p>if you do not have the patience start at about the 2:40 mark of the first video.</p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]rEGOihjqO9w[/MEDIA]</p><p><br /></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]EzoazPPC7b8[/MEDIA][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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