Dad’s Love of Classical Music

Where did your dad get his love of classical music

Asked my wife who never knew the man but knows

Me.

I said I didn’t have a clue.  Immigrant swede kid

Orphaned at thirteen and passed, by the skin of

His

Teeth, tenth grade on the south side of Chicago,

Who had the audacity to apply to the University of

Chicago

And get roundly rejected.  He built his own stereo

System and bought the Readers Digest Classical

Masterpieces

And Light Classical Music which had short bio-

Graphical blurbs with drawings or photos of the composers to

Go

With the selections to which I listened in the music

Room in our home, which had been my bedroom

Until

My sister got married and moved out and I got

her room.  Right now I’m listening to channel

943

Light Classical to a really nice little French Im-

Pressionistic piece by (I thought Debussy until

I

Looked and saw it was) Ravel and was quite pleased

With myself until my wife asked the question to which

I

Had no answer.