George Shangrow, until his tragic death in an auto crash in 2010, was "Mr. FM Radio Seattle", a suave radio host and a superb musician. He invited me to play the Vivaldi-Bach Concerto for 4 Harpsichords with his orchestra in 1992. It wasn't until I was on the train chugging comfortably through the wilds of Montana that I remembered that Bach's "quad" was difficult to rehearse, difficult to set up, expensive to produce and lasted only ten minutes. Of course an encore was needed, but no other piece existed for four harpsichords and strings. The only useful book I had with me on the train was the ragtime collection, so the choice was obvious. Krell's piece, the very first published rag (1/27/1897), is actually a patrol march, depicting a band approaching from a distance, coming close, and disappearing again - something I thought risky but probably quite humorous when played on harpsichords. The little Dixieland riff heard after the climactic moment was not a Cooper invention, but a delightful improvisation by Mr. Kechley, who I did not know was a jazz pianist.