Brain: Philip Brunelle

My three children—Tim, Chris, and Elise.

As a musician, Guido d’Arezzo: The man developed (in the eleventh century) the system of precise pitch notation using lines and spaces and also developed our “do-re-mi” method of sightsinging.

David McCullough’s John Adams and George Eliot’s Middlemarch. Of course, as a source book for inspiration you can’t beat the Bible!

You’ll never know if you don’t ask.

Yes, my high school choir director, Harry Opel. He saw potential in me and guided me down a good path.

In high school, giving a recital I was not prepared for—never again!

Read or do French cooking.

No. I’m happy just dealing with myself as I am.

An impossible question—I have dozens of favorites!

For me, I think it will be the ability for all people to find time for personal reflection, away from all the everyday distractions: to be able to strengthen their own personal life mentally and spiritually.

Yes.