David burke music biography

Our classmate David Burke died peacefully on May 10, 2024 in his beloved City of Paris where he had lived for 38 years, from complications of Alzheimer’s disease. His wife Joanne survives him along with his sons David Jr. (Bangkok) and Steve (Connecticut). His youngest son, Jesse, died in 2013, leaving one grandson, Robert (Singapore). Besides his immediate family and a rich variety of friends around the world, he is also survived by two brothers, Joseph (Madrid), Larry (Massachusetts) and brother in law James (Connecticut). His sister Anne died in 2022.

Known to his friends and classmates as a gentle, happy polymath, Dave had a great sense of humor and a fund of knowledge about many subjects He was born in Waterbury, Connecticut, attended Taft Preparatory School, then Yale University where he became Editor of the Yale Literary Magazine. He then did his military time in Korea with the Counterintelligence Corps (CIC) and after his discharge attended the exclusive Yale School of Drama for two years of graduate study in playwriting and dramatic literature.

Dave devoted his career to literature, music, history, television and films, starting as a researcher/writer on a PBS documentary series, moving on to ABC, NBC, more PBS, Producer of Consumer Reports TV, and fo

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