Here's the personal backstory on one of the world's many persons named Tom Davey. This Tom Davey currently resides in northern Manhattan, New York City USA.
| Full name | Walter Thomas Davey III
(From
infancy I've been called Tom) |
| Birthplace | Sacramento CA USA* |
| Parents |
- Walter Thomas Davey Jr.
- Patricia Ann Davey (née O'Connor)**
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| Siblings |
- Timothy Michael Davey
- Julie Diane Helfrich
- James Richard Davey
- Lizabeth Ann Gilliland
- Alison Katherine Zeigler
- Robert Francis Davey
- Kevin Patrick Davey
- Tricia Ann Davey
- John Paul Davey
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| High School | Mater Dei, Santa Ana CA USA |
| College |
- UC Irvine: BA English
- UC Davis and UC Los Angeles: studies toward the Ph.D. in English
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Employed | Director, Digital Development, CFR Digital,
Council on Foreign Relations, New York NY (since 2003) |
| Blog |
Monsters From the Id
MFTI was active from April 2002 through Feb 2003
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| Social networks |
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| Claims to fame |
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| Witness to history |
- 1994: Living in West Los Angeles during the Northridge Earthquake on January 17.
- 2001: At work on 9th St. in Lower Manhattan on the morning of September 11.
- 2012: Living on the Upper West Side of Manhattan during Hurricane Sandy on October 29.
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Desert Island Discs
(Only one per composer allowed, too bad.) |
- Adams, Nixon in China
- Adès, Tevot
- Bach, St. Matthew Passion
- Bartok, Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta
- Beethoven, Grosse Fugue Op. 134 (For piano 4-hands, this percussive transcription of an already uncompromising work is the moment when Beethoven invented Bartok.)
- Benjamin, Written on Skin
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- Berio, Sinfonia
- Brahms, Piano Quartet Op. 60
- Britten, Billy Budd
- Bruckner, Symphony #8
- Chopin, 24 Preludes Op. 28
- Debussy, Pélleas et Mélisande
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- Durflé, Requiem
- Dvorak, Symphony #7
- Elgar, Symphony #1
- Franck, Violin Sonata in A
- Handel, 12 Concerti Grossi Op. 6
- Haydn, Symphony #101 in D
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- Hanson, Fantasy Variations on a Theme of Youth
- Hindemith, Kammermusik #1-7
- Hovhannes, Symphony #6 Op. 173
- Janáček, Taras Bulba
- Ligeti, Piano Concerto
- Mahler, Symphony #6
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- Martin, Polyptyque
- Martinů, Rhapsody Concerto for Viola
- Mendelssoh, Octet Op. 20
- Messiaen, Turangalîla-Symphonie
- Mozart, Piano Concerto #23 in A K. 488
- Poulenc, Gloria
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- Prokofiev, Romeo and Juliet Op. 64
- Ravel, Piano Trio
- Rubbra, Sinfonia Concertante Op. 34
- Schoenberg, Kammersymphonie Op. 9
- Schrecker, Die Gezeichneten
- Schubert, String Quartet #15
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- Schumann, Scenes from Faust
- Scriabin, Symphony #2 Op. 29
- Shostakovich, String Quartet #8 Op. 110
- Sibelius, Symphony #7 Op. 105
- Stockhausen, Hymnen
- Strauss, Die Frau ohne Schatten
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- Stravinsky, Symphonies of Wind Instruments
- Szymanowski, Violin Concerto #2 Op. 61
- Vaughan Williams, Job: A Masque for Dancing
- Wagner, Götterdämerung
- Zemlinsky, Der Zwerg
What I know about music before Bach wouldn't fill a thimble, unfortunately. Naïvely, I like:
- Machaut, Messe de Nostre Dame
- Gesualdo, Tenebrae Responses for Good Friday
- Monteverdi, Vespers of 1610
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| Desert Island Text Editor (Only one needed) |
GNU Emacs
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| Favorite quotation | "Emacs outshines all other editing software in approximately the same way that the noonday sun does the stars. It is not just bigger and brighter; it simply makes everything else vanish." -- Neal Stephenson, In the Beginning Was the Command Line |
| A little snack of literary criticism |
- The funniest serious book in English is Gibbon's The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
- The most serious funny book in English is Fielding's Tom Jones
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| Guilty Pleasures |
- Science-fiction films of the 1950s
- Diet Pepsi
- Snow storms and blizzards
- Blazing fireplaces
- Mary Roach
- The many sufferings of Theon Greyjoy
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| Haircuts |
I get my hair cut in midtown, a block east of Carnegie Hall, at a shop called Barber Shop on 56th St. Ask for Joseph. |
* I don't use "City in which you were born?"
as my "security question" on authenticated websites.