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Classical Music Tributes

Classical WETA 90.9 FM invites you to pay tribute to those who've influenced your love of classical music.

Maybe it was your second grade music teacher. Or maybe your parents filled the house with the sounds of Bach. Or perhaps you'd like to honor the way classical music is important in the life of someone you care about.

For whoever inspires you, you can add a name and short dedication to this tribute page. Although not required, you'll also have the option to make a tribute gift to help keep the music alive on Classical WETA 90.9 FM.

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Harold ("Hal") Aks

Hal Aks was the first choral conductor I ever knew. When I was nine years old, he began conducting the high school chorus at my school in New York. I would hide behind the curtain in the auditorium listening to them rehearse parts of the Brahms Requiem or Haydn masses and relish every moment, impatient for the day when I could join them.. He conducted our synagogue choir and wrote music for it. He conducted the madrigal group in my summer music camp. He also taught Bach. He was the first person to expose me and my friends to the polyphany of the b minor mass, urging us to listen carefully to the lines, the lines, the lines. Many generations of young people learned to love Bach because of Hal. He also taught at Sarah Lawrence College and conducted there. He never became an international star. But Hal did more to awaken hundreds and hundreds of young people to beautiful music than anyone in the professional music world from the late 1940s until his untimely death only a few years ago.

Rev. David Arthur, C.S.C.

Professor of Philosophy and Music, Stonehill College, North Easton, Massachusetts. 1961-65.