The Berlioz Requiem and here's the logic. Marooning simply implies abandonment not solitary exile. So I want Berlioz' music LIVE! with its organist, 108 piece orchestra augmented by four brass choirs, 120 voice chorus, soloists and conductor, Robert Shaw.

Leave it to Wes! [That would have to be one big island though...] <BR> <BR>Bob B. - let's assume solar CD players? [They do have wind-up radios now.] <BR>

Van Morrison and Stevie Ray Vaughan

Hi! I guess that will be my husband's snore. At least if I can hear his 'musical snore', it means I'm not alone!!

I would take Beethoven's 9th. It always inspires me, and I would need something with vocals, since I am sure I would miss human contact. <BR> <BR>Runner-ups would include arias from Puccini.

This is, as I'm sure you know, an impossible question, and I'm sure my answer would be different on a different day, but right now, the best I can come up with is Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra. I love the piece, and always think that he has managed to capture a little bit of infinity in it. It is one of the most complex pieces I know, yet it makes a complete statement, so I never get tired of it. And no matter how often I hear it, I always hear something new in it. Perhaps on an island, I'd finally begin to truly understand it. As a singer, I'd take Barber's Knoxville: Summer of 1915. Great music and great literature.

This ones easy..."Stairway To Heaven," Led Zepplin.

One that would reflect my mood - Allegri's "Miserare"!

Though if I was stranded on a tiny Aeolian island (just north of Sicily) I might prefer Vivaldi's "Four Seasons". The Allegri, though, if I was on one of those tiny islands beyond the Arctic Circle off Norway - in the winter.

Wind up record players!! I remember one from my youth. Old 78 rpm shellac records that broke easily and were terribly scratchy. When the spring wore down, the speed dropped and the sound was amazing. Playing a long symphony took many platters and marathon winding of the crank. <BR> <BR>Perhaps this is a little too sentimental, but the late Robert Shaw was mentioned by other than me. We indeed lost a national treasure when he passed away. But his legacy of recorded jewels lives on, thanks to Telarc. I just hope the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus can be sustained somehow, someway. Shaw was a great choral conductor. <BR> <BR>