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“I came back a month later, my teacher gave me ‘Czardas’ to play.

In February, Slocumb was trying to eke out some time, in half-hour chunks, to practice “Czardas” again, a piece he hadn’t played in years.

In one scene, Ray plays “Czardas,” a work by Italian composer Vittorio Monti.

For Slocumb, “Czardas” was also a redemption piece in college after he bombed a performance in front of his fellow music students.

This is how Slocumb describes Ray’s performance of “Czardas”: “The mournful opening notes gave way to sunlight on a park bench, to the glitter of water pouring endlessly from a waterfall on a very hot summer day.”