User:Larrykoen

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Marilyn Robert
Edward A. Kramer
- I made a few small edits to Marilyn Robert, my spouse (as noted at the end of this capsule autobiography).
- I created the article Edward A. Kramer, a computer graphics pioneer and recent acquaintance, to remedy an unfortunate situation in which users were confusing Mr. Kramer with Edward E. Kramer, a convicted child molester.

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About Larry Koenigsberg

Articles I've created, in reverse chronology:

Time (Burroughs book) pamphlet using cut-up by William S. Burroughs
Edward A. Kramer computer graphics pioneer, and related Edward Kramer (disambiguation)
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, monthly newspaper)
Freedom (American newspaper) (Paul Robeson-associated monthly newspaper)
Performing arts medicine
Esteban Montejo (author of The Autobiography of a Runaway Slave)

Articles to which I've made significant contributions:

They Shall Have Music
On-board scale
Talk:List of jazz contrafacts
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)

And, some other contributions.

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, mainly for All About Jazz. 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 both by writers ancient and medieval, and also 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. More or less related to or informed by this involvement, I recently started a Substack, Considerations of Justice.

I have played various musical instruments for almost my entire life. In 1972, I performed a set with my roommate in the Second Annual Willamette Valley Folk Festival as half of the guitar / vocal / harmonica duo Easy Street; one song appeared on an LP of selections from the concert.^[1] Currently 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. I enrolled at Columbia University, where among my roommates were Buzz Potamkin and Howard Machtinger, and quit after two years. Later I was awarded degrees in psychology and computer science at the University of Oregon. I worked as a nursery school teacher between those courses of study. I have been married for many years to the fiber artist and educator Marilyn Robert.