Word: kletzsch
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...would have been nice to live in a palace, but music was, and is, my passion," says Kletzsch...
...suite--decorated with an 18th Century clavichord, a sign from the pinball machine 'Sorcerer,' and hanging inflated globes--reveals why many people find Charlie Kletzsch a fascinating and remarkable...
...Kletzsch says he grew up the scion of an established and wealthy Milwaukee family and came to Harvard "to become a composer." He left college to gain practical musical experience in a music conservatory in Milwaukee and returned five years later to finish his undergraduate. education and get a Master of Arts in Music...
...Kletzsch says he did not know on the fall, 1952day he moved into Dunster House as house librarianthat it was to be his home for the next 38 years.Despite "an offer from another very gooduniversity," he stayed on as a tutor afterreceiving his M.A. with highest honors, and wasmade composer-in-residence...
During this time, he says, he was shunned byhis family for "wasting [his] life on music." Helived in a small "secret room" abutting theDunster House Library on a yearly salary of $1000,the amount that was to be Kletzsch's sole incomeuntil he turned...