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Harris
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some Rodgers and Hammerstein, Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, maybe some Ellington. It’s hard not to play Gershwin or Cole Porter. And I’m probably going to do some Brazilian, which has become such a huge part of American popular music since the ‘60s,” he says, specifically mentioning a few compositions by guitarist Luiz Bonfa, who wrote the score and title tune of the film, “Black Orpheus.”
Harris, whose squarejawed, clean-cut looks belie the delicate harmonic mischief he gets into at the keyboard on a good night, squeezed in a quick interview with the Rappahannock News between “practicing like a maniac” and a steady stream of appointments - though not technically his appointments.
Since January, he and wife Stella Liong have been full-time Rappahannock residents, moving from Warrenton, when renovations allowed, to the historic Flint Hill house where Liong and he have also built Liong’s part-time, full-service dental clinic. Both he and their daughter Calynn, 20, help out at the clinic. And everyone helps with making the house and clinic their own.
“It’s been^ I’d say, at least a thousand times more complicated than we expected to renovate this place,” he says, sitting at the long table that divides the open kitchen from the living area, where a baby grand shares space with sofas, TV and a computer, “but we’ve made great progress.”
At the end of the day, though - if not the end of every day - it’s music that renovates Harris’ heart.
“Part of my plan of moving out here was to do less and less local, club and hotel regular gigs,” says Harris, whose longest lounge and club stint lasted 19 years (“a one-year contract, renewed
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