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== 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 [https://www.allaboutjazz.com/tag-larry-koenigsberg All About Jazz web site]).  An occasional [[classical music]] then [[jazz]] DJ on [[KLCC (FM)|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 [[Identification key|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 [http://homertomrabet.blogspot.com/2006/06/ Homer to Mrabet]. More actively, I recently joined the biweekly book sorting group of the [https://www.friendseugenelibrary.org/ Friends of the Eugene Public Library], and started a [[Substack]], [https://thatsecondlook.substack.com/ Considerations of Justice].

For decades in election seasons, I have spent time canvassing and, more recently, also phone banking.  I am a [[Precinct captain|Precinct Committee Person]] in the [https://www.dplc.org/ Democratic Party of Lane County], for [[Oregon's 8th House district|District 8]] of the [[Oregon House of Representatives]]. More or less related to or informed by this involvement, I recently started a Substack, [https://thatsecondlook.substack.com/ 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.<ref>{{Discogs release|id=24804608-|name=The Second Annual Willamette Valley Folk Festival - 1972|type=album}}; [https://i.discogs.com/0yO15O0sqy4d5pncM-jtUEKyNhkiB4fpBn5qLVHskCg/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:598/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTI0ODA0/NjA4LTE2NjYxMjAz/MDItMTU0MS5qcGVn.jpeg disc's label]; [https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/bzd3h2l27z55fsqassbxu/01-Do-Re-Mi.mp3?rlkey=qpfgk0j6bcst2jivbpyiz4i90&dl=0 some of the set's audio.]</ref> 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 (poet)|David Shapiro]] and [[Susan Bordo]]. Later I was awarded degrees in [[psychology]] and [[computer science]] at the [[University of Oregon]]. I worked as a [[Preschool#United States|nursery school]] teacher between those courses of study.  I have been married for many years to the [[Fiber art|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 (American newspaper)|''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:
* [[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)

[[Special:Contributions/Larrykoen|Some other contributions]]

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