Dick started his musical life listening to a fog horn on the shore of Lake Superior, then advancing to playing the piccolo in the Stanford band. A Chicago performance of the Brahms German Requiem inspired him to take a two month German course at the Goethe Institute, followed by engineering work at IBM in Germany and the US. Later his wife inspired him to join her in choral singing, leading to thirty years of singing with the Boulder Bach Festival chorus. He has also had shorter stints with some of Boulder’s many other choral groups. His hobbies now are sailing, canoeing and vegetable gardening, and does some flying to keep up with a scattered family.