![]() So to make ends meet, he put his piano skills to work and began to play accompaniment for the dance class of a woman named Esther Nelson. But nothing was turning him into a career musician. As a penniless musician in New York, he tried his hand at composing scores for operas and incidental music at various theaters, as well as writing several musique concréte compositions. Haack was not long for the rigid structure of Juilliard, dropping out only after 18 months. Whether it was true or not, it certainly retrofits a shocking origin story for a savant who wired synthesizers to connect himself to a spiritual afterworld. It sounds crazy, but it adds to the mythos – and presages his struggle with drugs and alcohol later in his life. ![]() ![]() Now, no origin story about Haack has been written without noting that at some point as a young child, he would occasionally sneak off with the local First Nations tribe and sit in on their pow-wows and smoke peyote. ![]()
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