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Encyclopedia > Karl Haas

Karl Haas (1913 - February 6, 2005) was a classical music radio show host. He was the host of Adventures in Good Music, which was syndicated to commercial and public radio stations in the United States, and in other places around the world. He also published a book, Inside Music.


Haas was born in Speyer and studied at the Mannheim Conservatory and the University of Heidelberg. He left Germany in 1936 because of the rise of Nazism. He first settled in Detroit, Michigan, but lived in other places before returning to Detroit near the end of his life. He studied piano with Artur Schnabel.


Haas started Adventures in Good Music at WJR-AM in Detroit, Michigan in 1959 and later syndicated in 1970 at WCLV (http://www.wclv.com/skin/feature.php?sectionId=180), a Cleveland, Ohio radio station. The story goes that the station people wanted him to call it something like "Adventures in Classical Music", which he rejected as being too narrow, or "Adventures in Music", which he rejected as being too broad. He chose the title as being in line with his philosophy that there are really only two kinds of music: good and bad. The theme music for his show was the slow movement from Beethoven's "Pathétique" Sonata (Sonata No 8 in C minor).


For the last two years of his life, he did not produce any new shows, but re-played his previous work.


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Radio Hall of Fame - Karl Haas, Classical Music Host (240 words)
Karl Haas is the creator and host of the longest running daily classical music program in broadcast history, Adventures in Good Music.
Karl Haas, a native of Speyer-on-the-Rhine, Germany, began his love affair with music at age six, when he received his first piano lesson from his mother.
Karl Haas was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 1997.
Karl Haas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (397 words)
Haas was born in Speyer, Germany and studied at the Mannheim Conservatory and the University of Heidelberg.
Haas, who was Jewish, left Germany in 1936 with the rise of Nazism.
Haas received the Charles Frankel Award of the National Endowment for the Humanities in 1991.
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