Janet S. Kanter

August 25th, 2024

I met Janet as a friend of David. Many happy memories in their house jamming, eating and hanging out.
Sending all our love , Aloha and condolences to the Kanter family.

~Mike Wong
~family friend, Honolulu, Hawaii

August 22nd, 2024

I have wonderful memories about the many happy events Marty and I shared with your parents

~Ethel Tiersky
~Cousin, Wilmette, IL

August 18th, 2024

I had the pleasure of knowing Janet as a friend of her son David. Every time I was around her we had such great conversations. She was the kind of person that could talk about so many interesting subjects, and she was genuinely interested in other people’s lives. She was smart, honest, passionate and engaging. I really enjoyed getting to know her and will always think fondly of her. I am close friends with her son and I see so many of her wonderful qualities in him. Her love and legacy live on. God bless her and her family.

~Greg Magnuson
~Friend of her son David, San Diego, CA

August 17th, 2024

Jan and I were more than cousins; we were good friends. She and Dick put us up Ann and I, may times on stop overs in our trips from one coast to the other. I remember Ann and I sitting on Jan’s back porch with her and another friend of hers . I complained about the noise of the city. “What noise,” Jan said, and then she realized that we all were hearing the continuous noise of a jack hammer around fifty feet from us. The four of us laughed. This anecdote illustrates much about Jan. She knew how to focus. Above all, she k new how to focus on the people and things that she liked.

~David Shagam
~cousins, Berkeley, CA

August 12th, 2024

I wish to Thank the Niece of Janet Kanter, widow of our late Solti/CSO Oboist, Dick (Richard) Kanter,
Leah in Albuquque , New Mexico, for her loving Remembrances of her “Aunt Jan” which were loving &
deeply moving to read … I’ve come away with a better spirit having read about ‘Aunt Jan’s’ Approach
to Living Life with Joy and Thanks for every little or big moments … With Condolences to Leah in NM,
I remain a saddened to hear of your beloved Aunt Jan’s passing yet her Memory lives on in You and in
all your children … Sending a Chicago Hug dear Leah … former Violinist, in the Solti/CSO, later Soloist
and in many parts of the World including the UK, Continental Europe & Asian Countries after Studies
with GOAT’s of Violin Playing, Jascha Heifetz w/ only Peer of Heifetz, Nathan Milstein in London, UK!
{Your Aunt Jan must’ve mighty proud of You & your Family noting her passions for Life in Your Own!}

With my Condolences ~ Elisabeth Matesky in Chicago now 12th of August, 2 0 2 4 ‘Aunt Jan’ ~ R I P x

~elisabeth matesky
~, IL

August 12th, 2024

Jan and I both attended the Art Institute of Chicago’s junior school when we were grammar school and high school students. We had many friends in common and I was regularly asked if I had met Jan yet. But I did not get to meet her until we were 28 and working together at the educational textbook publisher, Scott, Foresman.. We immediately became good friends, and I introduced her to one of my friends, Dick Kanter, thus becoming an official matchmaker. Jan and I remained good friends and were part of a group of four “opera ladies “who went to the Lyric Opera together for many years. Jan and we also went to Chicago Symphony concerts together on many occasions. My dad had played in the viola section and he and Dick were active workers for the union, the Orchestra members’ committee, and the CSO Alumni Association. Jan and I shared many Interests and talked in gleeful terms about our mutual love for the jewelry of Eve Alfillé in Evanston. We giggled and talked and worried about and praised our kids and grandkids. My husband and I moved around the corner from Jan nine years ago and that gave me even more opportunity to be in touch. I sure will miss her!

~Leoni McVey
~Friend, Chicago, IL

August 12th, 2024

My Aunt was an avid traveler and photographer…two things we could both share has hobbies. I enjoyed learning of her discoveries and adventures!

We both were in Israel at the same time many years ago visiting respective family and she took a photo of me dancing around. We also got our hair done together with Aunt Dede. Those were wonderful memories!

Aunt Jan also enjoyed going to fancy hotels and having high tea – she took me and Cousin Rachel to one once in Chicago when we were little and that was quite a memorable experience! I enjoy doing that with my children as well.

As a final memory to share amongst many, she and uncle Dick once included me in “party night” when I was visiting for work. It consisted of popcorn and a small martini- which I learned was a frequent event to celebrate life! They encouraged me to have as much fun as possible and do my best to enjoy life. Aunt Jan’s practical words struck me and I wanted to share them.

Let’s all celebrate Aunt Jan’s life and let her be an inspiration to celebrating our own lives. Live life to the fullest and enjoy all those big and little moments.

~Leah
~Niece, Albuquerque, New Mexico

August 11th, 2024

For The Family of late Janet {Dick} Kanter …

I was honoured to know both Janet and Dick Kanter, a superb Solti/CSO Oboist, the loving musician whilst in Maestro
Sir Georg Solti’s fabled and in its “Golden Days” Chicago Symphony Orchestra, taking the Music World by Storm with
Music made by every cultured CSO member to be in our wondrous City of Chicago, Chicago Symphony Orchestra and
must mention having moved from London, UK, to Chicago, with MD Sir Georg Solti’s Invitation, on returning to beloved
London, as the time passed fewer and fewer British People would refer to my living in Chicago, always fabled due ‘Dude’,
Al Capone, thinking when carrying one’s Violin Case, it contained not a Violin but a machine gun, Yet once Sollti’s CSO
‘Hit’ London’s GOAT Royal Festival Hall with the Solti/CSO On Tour, it had such musical Impact, Londoner’s-‘Civilians’,
(non musicians) began asking: “Are you a member of greatest American Orchestra of Sir Georg Solti & The Chicago!?”
I would proudly heart answer: “Yes Indeed!!! And all Members in our string sections carry Violins and Viola’s in our
Violin/Viola Cases!” The Global Public perception was changed and rapidly under Sir Georg Solti’s Leadership from
the City of Al Capone to ‘The City of GOAT US Chicago Symphony Orchestra’ in the eyes & hearts of most Londoner’s
+ residents of the UK and Then Some!! Richard Kanter, was a major part of the CSO for Decades never swerving from
his artistry & abilities to blend with all woodwinds plus Brass and All other Orchestral Sections and with quiet musical
dignity. I believe his beloved wife, now late Janet Kanter, symbolized A Greatest of CSO Husbands as Best Supporter
of Husband DK ultra Talents gifting him never ending moral and musical support for his very long fabled CSO Career …
May a loving person, wife of CSO Oboist, Richard (Dick) Kanter, *Janet Kanter, now R I P with her beloved husband and
father of son David, Dick Kanter, Eternally in God’s Grandest Musicians Garden ‘Up There’ ~ Elisabeth Matesky, Violin
*Solti/CSO;*CSOAA Member; Master Artist Teacher Violin, Original American Conservatory of Music/Chicago, IL et al

~elisabeth matesky
~former Member Violinist of Sir Georg Solti’s Chicago Symphony Orchestra/ also Int’l recognized Violin Soloist/admirer of the Kanter’s, IL