Klarinet Archive - Posting 000246.txt from 2006/02

From: Tim Roberts <timr@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Re: "Half time" shows
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 18:03:55 -0500

On Fri, 17 Feb 2006 09:00:27 -0800, o4rmondtoby@-----.net (Ormondtoby
Montoya) wrote:

>I watched (finally) the Olympic opening show. Now that's what a "half
>time" show should be, and I don't think it would have been beyond the
>economics of a Super Bowl game to organize public participation (the
>skier) of that sort. Probably it would improve public interest in the
>game as well, which would be a commercial benefit for them.
>
>

For me, the most moving moment of the entire opening ceremony was when
that 9-year-old girl sang the Italian national anthem. There she stood,
all alone, on stage at the center of that huge stadium, packed with
people, with a substantial fraction of the world's population watching
on television, and she sang it out tenderly, lyrically, and perfectly clear.

I actually got a lump in my throat.

--
Tim Roberts, timr@-----.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

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