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nock’s Paul Reisler and Bob Read, who, said Mr. Coon, helped to broaden his musical vocabularly, particularly with non-western rhythms.
Mr. Coon moved here with his wife Jane in 1985 to finally settle in one place after years of traveling the world as a diplomat. His brother-inlaw, Richard Abell, already lived here and his son, Howard and his family moved here shortly thereafter.
Bom in 1927 in Boston, Mass., he went in the foreign service immediately after graduating from college. For over 35 years he occupied increasingly important posts in the State Department and embassies and consulates abroad, most notably in Morocco, Syria, Iran, India and Nepal. His last overseas assignment from 1981 to 1984, he served as the Ambassador to Nepal.
Jane Coon has also enjoyed an impressive career in the foreign service and at one point, while Mr. Coon was the Ambassador to Nepal, she was appointed as the Ambassador to Bangladesh. “We had the first double ambassadorship held by career officers,” said Mr. Coon.
It was after this last assigment that Mr. Coon decided it was time to get going with his music, which has always been his first love. “I think that during the 1950s and the 1960s, I singlehandedly kept Sam Goody’s mail-order record store in the black,” said Mr. Coon. “I have collected recordings of just about all the music written in the western classical tradition that I consider
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