I was fortunate to be of a slightly older generation with parents that let me play, endlessly, classical LPs  in their small collection.

While that started me in my fascination and love for the music, I must say that while I didn't have any formal music appreciation courses in school. listening to Karl Haas each morning fairly regularly starting in my teens was surely more rewarding than reading dry history from a book.

As other respondents have said, Karl never let his immense knowledge, his ability to put the music into the perspective of their times, make the presentation of the show "high brow." Indeed, just the opposite, he was like the kindly uncle who shared his joy and secrets with the next generation.

To think that I'll not be able to listen at 8AM on KWAX - Eugene, OR for that voice or to hear his playing of 2nd movement Pathetique any longer is incredibly sad.

Many blessings to the Haas family for allowing Karl into our lives for these many decades, and here's hoping that they can find a way to solve the copyright issues to allow us to purchase those treasured recordings.

David Tong

Knowing that Karl Haas was no longer around was sad enough, but no programs at all. Oh dear. I will miss the seemingly endless pool of anecdotes and facts about music that came from listening to Karl. I loved the emotions that came over me when I heard the music and the voice. If it has to be that there are no more programs, my world has become emptier because I looked forward to being able to listen even if I couldn't. Thanks Karl for your contribution to making listening to classical music an art of the most enjoyable kind.

 

Wayne Hutchison
Canberra, Australia

I am in Canberra, Australia, listening right now to the last Karl Haas program that our local Artsound FM 92.7 will be broadcasting.  I appreciate the reasons that this wonderful program will no longer be distributed, though I am surprised there isn’t a strong enough following for what has been amongst the best of classical music programs for so long, perhaps the only one that introduced us to such a breadth of music, and educated us all through Karl’s own very broad knowledge, infectious love for music, and immense tolerance and humanity.  And as far as any problem of ‘repetition’ is concerned, how clearly is anyone going to recall decades of commentary the second, or even third or fourth times around?  Good lessons anyway are worth revisiting. I realise I have spent time with Karl for so much of my lifetime, and I will miss him. There has been no other broadcaster like him.

John Peak

Please, our family has gotten hooked on Dr Haas' program.  Is there some way we can continue listening to him?  He, even in his physical absence, is helping to fill in the gaps of my adopted children's musical educations, and creatively cultivate their appreciation for classical music in a way that we, their parents, have not been able to.  I, too, have had my musical horizons expanded by listening to his novel presentations. We were crestfallen when our local public radio station here in Ft. Pierce, FL, WQCS, said that after tomorrow they would no longer be able to air his program.  Please, would you reconsider, and/or give us an opportunity to buy a compilation of his "best" programs (if any differentiation can be made between fantastic and superb)?  If they are available for purchase, I could even take them to my class where I teach! Thank you in advance for whatever you can do.

Melanie Trewyn
Ft. Pierce, FL

Adventures in Music is a classic series in understanding and I will miss it. With all the work and thought put into the series over the years, how can such work be swept under the carpet to be forgotten when it can exist? If ever any of the series are released, I would welcome the chance to listen over and over to them. Like a good play, you can't fully appreciate all they it meant by attending a single time; watching again and again only heightens the awareness and deepens the impact of the meaning. I do hope the family allows Karl Haas' work to continue over the next generations.

Andy Durham

I first heard Adventures in Good Music as a young man in Cleveland,from WJR, the goodwill station,
broadcasting from the Fisher Building in Detroit (as the station announced it). It came across Lake Erie
and could be picked up in Cleveland on most days. As a student of the piano, violin, and viola, I was
fascinated by the approaches Karl Haas took to music. He introduced me to compositions and composers I had never heard of. I remember one memorable program in which Aaron Rosand played the same piece on different violins, and Karl's analysis of each performance. Listening to Adventures in Good Music was like taking a course in musicology. I will miss the stimulation and the insights into music that it provided. I hope that someday someone will find these programs and broadcast them to an audience that has not heard them, and that they will find them as enjoyable and educational as I have.

Aaron Ballonoff, Physicist


I have been a long time listener of the Karl Hass program. It was terrible to experience him passing away in February 2005 but to think his legacy could live on with his music program continuing on air kept his spirit alive. Again I am so deeply upset to learn that his music program will no longer be available on air. Your web site has cue sheets for his program this week. I make a plea and a suggestion that perhaps myself and other listeners can have access to additional cue sheets of Karl Hass' past programs so that we can go off on our own and listen to his selections. It seem like all programs of academic substance are disappearing from the airwaves. It is disturbing that younger generations will miss the exposure to the intellect of Karl Hass. There are hardly any music programs available today where you can listen to a range of music that one would ordinarily never encounter on one's own. Is there any way to e-mail the Hass family and make an appeal for Karl Hass' music to be heard once again.

Lana B. Callahan
St. Petersburg, FL

I  was very saddened to hear that Adventures in Good Music will no longer be aired.  Although Mr. Haas has been gone for almost 2 years, and his new shows absent for longer, I have never tired of hearing him, even in repeats.  His voice soothed and inspired while teaching.  I very much regret that this show will end for too many reasons to list. Who knows what new or young listener would accidentally pause on this program, only to be immediately mesmerized by Mr. Haas's fabulous voice, then to linger and maybe learn an appreciation, if not love, for classical music.