You can click on any image to enlarge it or view multi-page documents. 1971.04 Bill Waggoner for San Mateo City Council youth coordinator1971.06: Hillsdale High School, San Mateo graduate1971.07: "Existentialism and Health" seminar with Peter Koestenbaum.This seminar, recommended to me by my psychiatrist at the time Dr. Noel Morrell set the basic tone of my philosophical studies; that rather than a path to some sort of supposedly advanced knowledge, philosophy was as suspect as any other distraction on the path to authenticity. It was something to be done and gotten over with in the pursuit of nominally ordinary affairs. A therapy, in short.College yr 11971.09: San Jose State University Tutorials in Letters and Science Lower Division Honors Program (through 1973).1971.09: San Jose State University pipe organ student of Philip Simpson.Phil let me take organ as a non major. I was deep into Bach, Franck, Tournemire, Hindemith, Durufle, Messiaen—that whole school. He knew the Durufles, M-C Alain, Virgil Fox, and everyone else.[Died shortly after, heart attack. Too young. Link Simpson Memorial pipe organ] 1971 09: Virgil Fox!A subject within himself, the perfectly coordinated Virgil broke out from the dusty methods of the American Guild of Organists (AGO), so was rejected by the middle mass. Phil knew Virgil, and assurred me he was "crazy as a loon." His concert at Winterland San Francisco (complete with light show) was a great moment for me. (And on the record, you can hear my friend John Messerschmidt scream.) The Bach stuff was actually a minimization of his talents; I wish I could have heard him play modern French. I wouldn't say I modeled myself after Fox, but he sure had an influence; I generally practiced organ four hours/day 1971.09: San Mateo County Democratic Central Commitee member, through 1972.06[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
