Kurt Herbener

The year was 1960. His parents were both teachers in.the Trenton (MI) Public Schools. Upon his arrival home in the small ranch-style house in the.Bates Meadows subdivision, Kurt’s daytime hours were spent in an antique cradle located midway between.two 3-way diffaxial University speakers with 15” woofers. There he was.subjected to a musical diet that included Tchaikowsky’s 1812 Overture, Prokofiev’s Lieutenant Kije Suite, Glenn Miller’s In the Mood et al., Tommy Dorsey’s.GettingSentimental Over You, Bob and Ray’s.Stereo Spectacular, a German Army chorus’s German Marching Songs, and Ewan McColl’s British Army Songs. His father was heard to remark,