Broad support will open Marcus C. Rizzo Center
Many of us were heartened to read Jeri Rowe’s good piece on Nathan Wainscott and the fledgling Marcus C. Rizzo Center for Musician Enrichment (Aug. 7).
Recently, Center supporters hosted a Sunset Hills jazz festival drawing more than 1,000 — young and old, well-to-do and just getting by — to hear local jazz musicians “jam on the Rizzo riff.” Plaudits to the News & Record for its sidebar support of an event grounded in a deep need of our youth and a benefit to those of us who care about Greensboro’s kids and its cultural strength.
Wainscott plans to give young musicians a safe place to hang out and jam, one with adequate rehearsal and recording space. The enthusiastic turnout of a culturally diverse cross-section of our city boosted my faith in how a few can make a huge difference.
Broad support from Greensboro’s leaders and business community will open the doors of the Rizzo Center. Then kids all over Guilford County can grow their musical aspirations in Wainscott’s dynamic incubator. A full-fledged Rizzo Center would rock out Greensboro’s downtown arts scene and let our young people’s dreams groove into more than one night of great music in more than one neighborhood.
Barbara D. Van Cleve
Greensboro
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