TOD: I'm pretty partial to dark, dramatic, brooding, and epic as far as my tastes in classical music go...which makes me a sucker for a lot of Russians, Scandavians, and the occasional German. I also like romantic sweep...Miklos Rozsa is my favourite classical composer (yes, we wrote other things beyond movie scores and several of his movie scores were based on his classical compositions). Composers I like: Rimsky-Korsokav, Mussorgsky(sp?), Ravel, Debussy (a lot), Stravinsky, Kachaturian, Copeland, Vaughn Williams, Walton, Dvorak...I listen to classical a lot when I'm writing or driving in the car. Hear lots of pieces I like, but don't remember who wrote them.