Karl Haas (December 6, 1913 - February 6, 2005) is a German-American classical music radio host, known for his loud voice, a humanistic approach to musical appreciation, and popularizing classical music. He is the host of the classical music radio program Adventures in Good Music , which is syndicated to commercial and public radio stations worldwide. He also publishes Inside Music . He is a respected musical master, as well as an accomplished pianist and conductor. In 1996, he received an honorary degree in Doctor of Letters from Oglethorpe University.
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Early life and family
Karl Haas was born in Speyer, Palatinate, Germany in 1913. He studied at the Mannheim Conservatory and obtained a doctorate in music literature from the University of Heidelberg. He studied piano with Artur Schnabel. Haas was a Jew, and he left Germany in 1936 with the rise of Nazism. He first settled in Detroit, Michigan, then lived elsewhere, returning to Detroit at the end of his life.
Karl Haas and his wife, Trudie, have two sons and one daughter. Trudie died in 1977.
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Adventure in Good Music
Haas started his radio program, Adventures in Good Music, at the WJR in Detroit, Michigan in 1959. The satirical broadcasting event in the United States began in 1970 at WCLV, a radio station Cleveland, Ohio. The event was eventually syndicated to commercial and public radio stations worldwide and became the most heavily heard classical music radio program in the world.
The theme music for Adventures in Good Music is the second movement of Beethoven's "PathÃÆ'Â Â © tique" Sonata (Sonata No. 8 in C minor), conducted by Haas. Haas started each show with his trademark "Hello all", and then gave the title of his CD song with those words. For several years, this program has the most listeners of any classical music radio show in the world.
Haas received the Charles Frankel Award from the National Endowment for the Humanities in 1991. President George H. W. Bush handed the award to Haas at the White House. Haas also twice won the George Foster Peabody Award for excellence in broadcasting. In 1997 he became the first classical music announcer to be named to the National Radio Hall of Fame.
Haas did not produce a new episode of the show in the last two years of his life. WCLV continued to sync the recordings from its previous show until June 2007. That month, WCLV announced "deeply regretted" that it would broadcast and syndicate the latest Adventures in Good Music program on June 29, 2007. The announcement explains that the number of stations carrying the show has dropped from over 400 to less than 20, which makes it unfeasible to continue the national distribution of the program.
Most episodes of Adventures in Good Music are not publicly available due to copyright restrictions, even though three CDs have been published featuring Haas and their comments: Romantic Piano , Story of the Bells , and Song and Dance .
See also
- Bill McGlaughlin
- Explore Music
References
Bibliography
- Haas, K. (1999). Inside Music . South Melbourne, Macmillan. ISBNÃ, 0-7329-1004-8
External links
- The video in which Karl Haas explains briefly why he devoted his whole life to music on YouTube
- Obituaries in the Washington Post February 8, 2005; Page B06
- Haas was inducted into Radio Hall of Fame
- Piece of warning about Karl Haas and his radio style
- Interview by Bruce Duffie, October 28, 1989
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