Borklog: One entry

8 October 2001

Saturday I went to a "Piano-man-a-thon" at the Leechburg high school. Dave Ritzel, the band director there, lost some relatives on 9/11. He wanted to raise funds to the Red Cross, and decided to do things in his own personal idiom. For each of 12 hours, he played 45 minute piano-lounge sets. Folks coule give him requests, and some folks brought in music (although he had a wide collection of music that he brought) There were some truly magical moments during this. Fer example, during a Show Tunes set, Riztel started playing one of the songs from The Rose. Part way through, a local voice teacher just got up, joined him at the piano, and started singing one of the harmony lines. Shortly thereafter, her daughter joined them with the third harmony line. I was close to tears after that one. In between Ritzel sets, other musicians from the area filled in the time.

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