About Larry Koenigsberg edit
I worked as an engineer, primarily in the area of embedded industrial software. I wrote articles for various publications, some work-related but mostly book and CD reviews for All About Jazz (available at the All About Jazz web site). An occasional classical music then jazz DJ on KLCC/Eugene, from 1983 until the COVID-19 pandemic, these days I play some amateur jazz piano. I enjoy hunting mushrooms in the fall and keying wildflowers in the spring.
I am an avid and eclectic reader, primarily of history by writers ancient and medieval, as well as by contemporary academics; and of fiction, poetry and drama, both in English and in translation. I desultorily maintain a blog summarizing my reading at Homer to Mrabet. More actively, I recently joined the biweekly book sorting group of the Friends of the Eugene Public Library.
For decades in election seasons, I have spent time canvassing and, more recently, also phone banking. I am a Precinct Committee Person in the Democratic Party of Lane County, for District 8 of the Oregon House of Representatives.
I am a piano volunteer at PeaceHealth Sacred Heart Medical Center at RiverBend. When they furloughed all volunteers as the pandemic gathered strength, I made a few piano videos (with the usual fluffs & rushing) as a practice incentive. You can watch me playing piano at https://www.youtube.com/user/larrykoeni.
In earlier life, I attended Weequahic High School, where among my closest friends were my classmates David Shapiro and Susan Bordo. Later I worked as a nursery school teacher. I have been married for many years to the fiber artist and educator Marilyn Robert
Articles I've created, in reverse chronology:
- H. L. Mitchell (co-founder of Southern Tenant Farmers Union)
- Early Jazz: Its Roots and Musical Development (book by Gunther Schuller)
- Louis E. Burnham (editor of Freedom)
- Freedom (American newspaper) (Paul Robeson-associated monthly newspaper)
- Performing arts medicine
- The Reawakening (disambiguation)
- Esteban Montejo (author of The Autobiography of a Runaway Slave)
Articles to which I've made significant contributions:
- Carl Marzani (American filmmaker, Academy Award winner, author and publisher, political prisoner)
- Marzani & Munsell (when it was part of Carl Marzani)
- Kathy Boudin (radical activist, then Columbia University professor)
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This user lives in the United States of America. |
This user lives in the U.S. State of Oregon. |
This user lives in Eugene. |
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Education edit
Quack! Quack! This user attends or attended the University of Oregon |
MA | This user has a Master of Arts degree in Computer science. |
BA | This user has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology. |
Professional edit
Embedded software developer. |
This user has retired. |
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76Y | This Wikipedian was born on 27 August 1947 and is 76 years, 8 months, and 15 days old. |
This user is interested in literature. |
This user is interested in history. |
This user plays the piano. |
This user is interested in Botany. |
This user enjoys classical music. |
This user enjoys jazz music. |
This user collects mushrooms. |
This user supports the Democratic Party. |