The Tale of a Treasured Radio: a Father-son Connection Through Time
Via KQED
Summary
When Rachael Myrow's father Fred Myrow, a film composer, died in 1999 at age 59, she was left to sort through his home music studio. Among the equipment she discovered a 1957 Telefunken Opus 7 tabletop radio, covered in thick dust. When she plugged it in, an orchestra briefly filled the room before the radio went silent, its old components burning out after decades of disuse.
Myrow carried the radio with her from Los Angeles to the San Francisco Bay Area, where it sat unrepaired for 25 years. Eventually she had it restored, and the act of hearing it come to life again rekindled her connection to her father and the music that defined his world — a meditation on how inherited objects hold memory.
