Dame Alicia Markova , a governor of the Royal Ballet and Visiting Professor of Ballet and the Performing Arts at the University of Cincinnati, presents a personal choice of records. She says, ' Music has always been my inspiration and an important part of my life.' The records she has selected range from a Sousa march (the first music she recalls hearing) to an excerpt from Salome by Richard Strauss , as well as Eventyr by Delius and a movement from Mahler's Fifth Symphony Professor Alicia: page 5