Goodbye Harold, and many thanks. He will live on in the many performers he shepherded and in the exemplery integrity he embodied. I feel fortunate that our our family has long been educated by Guthries, Seegers and more recently beginning with the Carnegie celebration, Harold Leventhal. Here are people we honor as if related by blood, who will always shine as beacons of truth and goodness. Our sympathy to Arlo and his family, and other friends and family.

Be sure to check out the [url]:www.woodyguthrie.org/harold.htm[/url]site for more info about Harold. A great CD about him was released around the Carnegie concert; I wonder if it is still available. And by the way, where is that "Isn't This a Time!" film?

While driving home from work yesterday, I was listening to NPR and there was Alan Chartock (NPR here in NY based in Albany) -- speaking live to Pete Seeger. Pete was saying that when he went to jail, it was Harold who "scrounged up the money" to bail him out of jail. Pete also noted that Harold was his age. Next Tuesday, there will be a 1-hour documentary on NPR with Harold and Alan Chartock. I'm not sure of the time, but I think it is1PM.

The world is forever richer because of Mr. Leventhal. I never had the opportunity to meet him but I had hoped to at this year's show at Carneigie. There have been A LOT of shows on lately (PBS) and Harold always seemed to be there, talking and smiling.

My sincerest condolences go to his family and to the Guthrie family. May the beautiful memories that you hold in your heart, somehow give you comfort. Time will take care of the rest.

I used to intern at Harold's office last fall. I'd go down to 57th street every friday afternoon for about 3 months. Every time I'd go in, Natalie would always greet me...and then I'd see Harold at his big desk in the next room. Then I'd go and sit at Fred Hellerman's desk and work on putting mechanical licenses into the computer. Once in a while, Harold would come in a talk with me a little bit----mostly about what I'm studying and why I was there. But he was such a sweet, grandfatherly old man.

I wasn't aware that he was sick, just learned now from Arlo's posting. But I'd been thinking about him in recent weeks...especially after his being interviewed in Scorsese's film. Funny thing is that I was down at Carnegie Hall on Tuesday, getting tickets for Arlo's concert. Thought about stopping by and saying hello, but I had to get back for class.

I'm the engineer of Woody's Children on WFUV. Perhaps we'll do a show in tribute to our dear friend, Harold.

This is a sad time for everyone in the folk music community. Harold Leventhal was a man of great dignity and caring, a quiet tour de force.

I was lucky enough to attend the Thanksgiving Day Tribute Concert for Harold at Carnegie Hall in 2003. My clearest memory of the remarks after the music ended came from Nora Guthrie.

In front of a stage crowded with all that evening's performers, Harold, the Leventhal family and the extended Guthrie family, Nora spoke movingly about "Uncle Harold", the man the Guthrie kids were taught to call if they ever encountered a problem.

A year ago at the Toronto Film Festival, the documentary of that Carnegie Hall Tribute concert was shown and I had the good fortune to see it on opening night. I also spotted Mr. Leventhal (along with his wife; Nora Guthrie; Pete Seeger & his wife) at the far end of the row I was sitting in. I had my Carnegie Hall Tribute program with me and he graciously, albeit shyly, signed it at my request.

When you consider all the social, cultural, political and musical good he did for us through his championing of the best music in the world and great folk musicians like Woody Guthrie, the Weavers, Arlo, Bob Dylan, Peter, Paul & Mary, Judy Collins to name just a few, it's clear he's left quite a legacy and will be sorely missed.

Every once in a while I love reading Mr. Leventhals stories about adg, as the "office boy", and the Hootenanny Bar Mitzvah etc. I never heard or read a bad thing about him and sure would have liked to have met him.

Gosh, the world sure has been a better place with him in it.
My thoughts are with you adg.

Still half asleep, I posted in the Arlo's Restaurant forum before thinking to look here. I can't delete that, so I'll repeat that he was one man who really did leave the world better than he found it. If ever there was an example of a live well lived, it was Harold Leventhal's.

Certainly we all have much to thank him for. And how many managers are known to the fans of the artists they've managed simply by their first names, even if said fans didn't know him personally at all? Not very many, I'd bet.

There is little more than can be said about such a giant of a man. It would make my year to see Harold at Carnegie each year after the Thanksgiving Concert, knowing that he was responsible for it all. The year of the 2003 concert, when the mail was a little slow arriving at his office Arlo said he told Harold "Yes, the tickets will sell." Three days later Harold couldn't get into the office-the mailman had been there with huge sacks of envelopes that shut down the operation for several weeks.
Make sure someone leaves an empty seat at Carnegie this year, because Harold's spirit will be present, and it deserves a place to sit.

....there is a really beautiful poster that was done for the Harold Leventhal tribute...i believe by Mary Jo...Woody's sister ... it is a limited edition and sells for $300 at the official site.....it has many, many autographs....must be seen...
....Club Passim's (a non-profit) in Cambridge (descendant of the old Club47)....is currently having an online auction and has one of these posters donated by the Woody Guthrie Foundation up for auction....
check out...
let's hope this link works...
http://www.cmarket.com/catalog
if not, just go to Club Passim at
http://www.clubpassim.org

and follow the yellow brick road...i'm sure it will lead you to the auction...there are about 40 items remaining...the poster is now at $100 and if my ship comes in this week, i'll be bidding........