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Ziggy’s heart was in his Masonic music
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His mother named him Zoltan but to everyone in the Carolinas he was Ziggy.
When he smiled and spoke softly, the words you heard most seemed to be “cool” and “dig.” But when Ziggy Hurwitz was playing piano, he communicated magnificently.
The Scottish Rite, lodges in the Charlotte region and individual Masonic events got his finest attention in the form of his original music. He was ready to perform his latest composition any time, day or night, anywhere.
His manuscripts are safe and fresh as ever in the great room of the Charlotte Scottish Rite Temple on Randolph Road. Visitors can take them out of the Treasures of Charlotte Masonry exhibit, so long as they are duly returned.
A friend of Ziggy’s was Brother Albert Kossove. He wasn’t known as a composer of Masonic music like Brother Hurwitz, but he was one of many NC musicians who played their hearts out for Masonry.
For decades Masonic musicians, amateur and professional, working and retired, have been pounding, blowing, plucking and strumming in Scottish Rite reunions, lodge socials and Shrine parades. They turn out at inconvenient times in inconvenient places to rehearse and perform for the good of Masonry.
Think of them and thank them when you spot that piano in your lodge.
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Produced by the public relations committee of the Grand Lodge AF&AM of Masons in North Carolina,
2921 Glenwood Avenue, Raleigh, NC 27628 MMVIII
Author/editor: Walter J. Klein wklein(at)carolina.rr.com
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