By Julia Boyle
THE ERICKSON TRIBUNE

There’s a lilt in their voices, a twinkle in their eyes, and a certain joie de vivre that’s inescapably musical. The instant you meet them, you can tell that  music is their stock-in-trade.

In part two of our series we meet Bill Sagosz and Lorrain Hart, two musicians with the entertainment bug in their blood.

Forever evolving
Bill Sagosz is a musician through and through— while lacking formal training, his experience speaks for itself. He bought his first cornet at age 12, and by the time he was 16 he had a regular gig in a gin mill. By 17 he played with a Polish orchestra.

He soon moved on to the trumpet—the cornet’s cousin—and was performing with a small Navy band at the Officer’s Club on base. Now at Seabrook, Sagosz’s music has evolved again, this time from the trumpet to the accordion—a complex instrument that requires intense coordination and dedication to practice.

But that doesn’t stop him. “It’s something that I look forward to because it lifts my spirits. I practice about an  hour a day,” he says.After practicing for just three months, Sagosz took to the stage once more, performing in the Seabrook talent show. “My objective is to entertain,” he says. “I’ve been entertaining my whole life with the horn, so this is just another way of doing it.”

With aspirations to add more entertaining to his schedule, Sagosz hopes to play his accordion at church services, which are part of the interfaith community at Seabrook. “I’m preparing music in anticipation that they might ask me to play,” he says eagerly.

Julliard-trained
Lorrain Hart also performs at various Seabrook functions, but as a  Juilliard- trained pianist her story is quite different than Sagosz’s.