A teen plays the Harry Potter theme on a station piano and a nearby family stops to listen enjoying the familiar melody as it fills the space and creates a warm and joyful public music moment ...
Alex Cham on MSN: Harry Potter on station piano gets a family’s attention
MSN: What happens when you play Harry Potter on a public piano?
I sat down to play the Harry Potter theme on a public piano, and the reaction was unforgettable. People gathered, paused, and some were visibly surprised as the melody filled the space. There's ...
Anyway, Harry and I are FaceBook (tm) friends, and he had a lovely post today talking about how he and his wife, a nurse, first moved to Miami in 1979, and have lived for years in what is now Palmetto Bay, in a neighborhood called Mangowood. I know it -- after Hurricane Andrew they called it, smarmily, Mangle-wood. Harry's final post was nostalgic as he said goodbye -- he and his wife are ...
Harry and his wife came over. I believe we brought in pizza or Chinese -- my Dad joked that he wouldn't dare barbecue for a true Southerner like Harry's wife. They were delightful. Harry had a slight accent, and his wife was full on "Driving Miss Daisy." She was born and raised in Gastonia, which was shocking to me, as she was Jewish.
Harry was out of town, and I was seen by the senior guy Yale, who wanted to admit me to South Miami Hospital, since I technically had "unstable angina" -- chest discomfort that came and went without a known trigger. I begged off, but came the next day for a stress test with thallium, followed by a CAT Scan.