After years of planning and preparation and gathering of necessary funds, the Fiske Planetarium announced in 2012 that at the end of the year, it would be shutting down Fritz, its huge Zeiss star projector, for the last time. This would be the first step in an eight-month rebuilding of the star theatre to a modern digital standard. Having performed with Fritz since 1999, there was no way I could let him go gracefully into that good night without a final concert!