[Magdalen] Leonard Cohen +RIP+

[Grace Cangialosi]

Your mentioning Karl Haas and WJR brought back some lovely memories, Scott. My recollection is that his program, "Adventures in Good Music," was on at 10am on weekdays. One of the benefits of being sick and having to stay home from school was getting to lie in bed and listen to that program. It opened with the opening bars of the second movement of Beethoven's "Pathetique" Sonata and his cheery greeting, which you replicated so well!
Haas was the speaker at the U of M School of Music Honors Convocation my senior year. He had been the director of the Interlochen program for a number of years by then. I remember only one thing he said, and that was something to the effect that you were truly a musician if you would drive 50 miles because you needed to hear a concert.
The next year, living in Flint, I did just that on several occasions!

I wonder if any of those old programs are still available from WJR--I should contact them. 

> On Nov 11, 2016, at 9:46 PM, Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> You're not alone, David!
> 
> In my case, I think it's that I'm a child of the 70s more than the
> 60s. And we were living in the Milwaukee and Detroit outer suburbs,
> not known for being the home of cutting-edge music fans. I took after
> my dad's love for radio; he constantly listened to the big general
> radio station wherever we were: WTMJ in Milwaukee and WJR in Detroit,
> which still played at least some music but it was of the decidedly
> middle-of-the-road sort: Ann Murray, Dionne Warwick, Barry Manilow.
> WJR had an hour of classical every afternoon with Karl Haas ("Hel-LO
> everyone!"). The point is that I was content to listen to this until
> later high school years when I discovered some rock-and-roll and live
> concerts (Boston! ELO! Foreigner! Doobie Brothers!).
> 
> The closest I got to getting to know the more thoughtful songsters of
> the 60s was hearing Cat Stevens, Joan Baez, and Simon & Garfunkel.
> 
> I even went through a "beautiful music" phase where I actually tuned
> into stations that played Mantovani, 1001 Strings, and Henry Mancini.
> 
> I honestly thought Leonard Cohen had to do with Broadway musicals, or
> film soundtracks.
> 
> I'll accept a lovely parting gift as my consolation prize, Alex.
> 
> On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 8:16 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen
> <magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
>> Things like this make me wonder if I'm living in an alternate universe  :-)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Scott R. Knitter
> Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA