BLASKE, THOMAS H.

A little known, much-loved raconteur about Ann Arbor, Thomas H. Blaske is the kind of man who would own two all-black dogs and call them Blanche and Ruby. A lifelong scholar of the good gray poet, Walt Whitman, he writes poetry under a pseudonym in the New Yorker. He is one of Michigan’s top trial attorneys who teaches trial advocacy skills and ethics in Michigan and throughout the Midwest. Music has always been part of his life, starting with listening to family recordings of Fritz Kreisler and Stephen Foster and singing in the Battle Creek Chorus as a youngster, to playing tuba in the University of Michigan Marching Band under William Revelli.

FETLER, P.: Violin Concerto No. 2 / Capriccio / 3 Poems by Walt Whitman (Berofsky, Blaske, Ann Arbor Symphony, Lipsky)	8.559606