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for the young musician, but a long hard climb, a talent and love so great make of hard work a joy.
Mr. Haaker has given piano recitals throughout the United States, Mexico and Cuba, also in Holland.
I can dd no better than give this from a professional music critic—r quote,
‘Once in a great while we are inspired by the appearance of a great career in creation. Those of us who -have seen William Haaker conduct realize we have been watching a star with a brilliant future. This man is a human dynamo. He lifts an entire orchestra to the last man to new heights with his tremendous vitality and his power. Here is a man, who conjures "Ids music. Haaker is not a man for ladies’ smiles, he is the man, who fires his music with his masculinity.
‘William Haaker is one of the x few (four) pianist-conductors in the world, capable of"great sensitivity and gentleness as well as the dramatic and the emotional. Surely his music will appeal to those, who like their Beethoven strong, clear and definite; and to those, who prefer to interpret their own Chopin and Debussy. His Strauss waltzes have a sensual quality.’
On the 26th of August, 1961, the first season of the Blue Ridge Music Center came brilliantly to a close. Beethoven’s Symphony, No. 6 (Pastoral) lead by William
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