This is a short post, but hopefully you will enjoy it. I wanted to share an interview that Basil Rathbone did on the weekly radio program Favorites of the Famous, broadcast in May 1952. Host Wayne Howell, a disc jockey in Dallas, Texas, interviewed celebrities about music, including their favorites. During breaks in the interview, the station would play a portion of the celebrity’s favorite piece of music. The favorite pieces of music that Rathbone named (and from which excerpts were played in the original program) are: Rathbone said he was also a fan of the music of Brahms, Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Rachmaninoff, and Beethoven. When asked about musicians in his family, Rathbone said that his daughter Cynthia played the piano, and his mother had played the violin, but he regretted that he had never learned to play an instrument. Yes, that means he was faking it when he appeared as Sherlock Holmes and played the violin. In addition to discussing music, Basil Rathbone told the audience about his recent Broadway play Jane, which opened at the Coronet …