User:Larrykoen

About Larry Koenigsberg

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 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 U.S. State of Oregon.

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Eugene.

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Education

Quack! Quack! This user attends or attended the University of Oregon

MAThis user has a Master of Arts degree in Computer science.

BAThis user has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology.

Professional

Embedded software developer.

This user has retired.

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76YThis Wikipedian was born on 27 August 1947 and is 76 years, 8 months, and 0 days old.

This user has been on Wikipedia for 18 years, 3 months and 30 days.

This user is interested in literature.

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This user plays the piano.

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This user enjoys classical music.

This user enjoys jazz music.

This user collects mushrooms.

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Democratic Party.