tomdavey.com

Tom Davey's personal Web site

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Full nameWalter Thomas Davey III
(From childhood I've been called Tom)
BirthplaceSacramento CA USA*
Parents
  • Walter Thomas Davey Jr.
  • Patricia Ann Davey (née O'Connor)**
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
High SchoolMater Dei, Santa Ana CA USA
College
  • UC Irvine: BA English
  • UC Davis and UC Los Angeles: studies toward the Ph.D. in English
Employed Director, Web Management and Development Dept.,
Council on Foreign Relations, New York NY (since 2003)
Blog Monsters From the Id
MFTI was active from April 2002 through Feb 2003
Social networks
Claims to fame
33 Desert Island Discs (Only one per composer allowed, ack!)
  • Adams, Nixon in China
  • Bach, St. Matthew Passion
  • Bartok, Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta
  • Beethoven, Grosse Fugue Op. 134 (Beethoven's own transcription for piano 4-hands)
  • Brahms, Piano Quartet Op. 60
  • Stravinsky, Symphonies of Wind Instruments
  • Britten, Billy Budd
  • Debussy, Pélleas et Mélisande
  • Durflé, Requiem
  • Dvorak, Symphony #7
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  • Elgar, Symphony #1
  • Franck, Violin Sonata in A
  • Handel, 12 Concerti Grossi Op. 6
  • Hindemith, Kammermusik #1-7
  • Janáček, Taras Bulba
  • Mahler, Symphony #6
  • Martin, Petite Symphonie Concertante
  • Martinů, Rhapsody Concerto for Viola
  • Messiaen, Turangalîla-Symphonie
  • Prokofiev, Romeo and Juliet (the complete ballet)
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  • Ravel, Piano Trio
  • Schoenberg, Kammersymphonie Op. 9
  • Schubert, String Quartet #15
  • Schumann, Scenes from Faust
  • Sibelius, Symphony #5
  • Stockhausen, Hymnen
  • Strauss, Die Frau ohne Schatten
  • Stravinsky, Symphonies of Wind Instruments
  • Vaughan Williams, Job: A Masque for Dancing
  • Wagner, Götterdämerung

What I know about music before Bach wouldn't fill a thimble, unfortunately. In naive appreciation, I like:

  • Machaut, Messe de Nostre Dame
  • Gesualdo, Tenebrae Responses for Good Friday
  • Monteverdi, Vespers of 1610
Desert Island Text Editor (Only one needed) GNU Emacs
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

Updated May 23, 2011

*   I don't use "Mother's maiden name?" as my "security question."

** Neither do I use "City in which you were born?"