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Definitely The Rite of Spring; The Bartók Piano Sonata (1926) before that, the Benny Goodman Quartet's "Avalon" before that, Mussorgsky's Night on Bald Mountain before any of those, Ives' "Three Places in New England" a little after all of these; certainly by the time I was 14.
I didn't really develop a taste for rock until I was in high school, save The Beatles and The Monkees. I discoverd the Velvet Underground and Zappa right before the punk explosion, and I was REALLY interested in that. I remember a schoolmate asking me, "You never got into Jimmy Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, right?" No - those artists I still haven't, although I know what they did and respect it otherwise.
Uncle Dave
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