9/18 Articles about "A Golden Moment"

Gail sent me the following two articles about the "A Golden Moment" show (Thanks Gail!). It
appears that Kristi will skate to Sarah Brightman's Time To Say Goodbye at the show:

The Daily Review today (Sept. 17, 1999) has two articles about the ice skating show tomorrow. The
first is titled:

                                        Live Music, Skaters To Unite In Concert

        Billed as a skating concert on ice, "A Golden Moment" is a collaboration between
    Olympic medalists Kristi Yamaguchi, Ekaterina Gordeeva, Tara Lipinski, Rosalynn
    Sumners and Katarina Witt, and musicians and singers like Keiko Matsui, Sarah Brightman,
    Taylor Dayne and the Oakland East Bay Symphony.

        Co-hosted by Peggy Fleming, this event takes place at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the Oakland
    Arena. Tickets cost $50 to $150. A part of the proceeds will support the fight against breast
    cancer.

        According to Yamaguchi, the project evolved over time. "We wanted to do something
    that reached a lot of people," she says, "We decided on the cause of breast cancer because
    it touched so many people in our lives. There is so much research and work on awareness
    we wanted to help out with.

        "We developed this concept for a group of female performers to come together. I asked
    my girlfriends from the skating circuit to join me. And we decided on live music to add
    another boost to the show."

        Yamaguchi, for instance, will skate to a live performance by Brightman of the song
    "Time to Say Goodbye." Lipinski will skate solo to another Brightman tune. Gordeeva will
    likely perform with Matsui. Sumners is being paired up with Dayne.

        Organizers can't say how much money they hope to raise, "We want to be ambitious,"
    Yamaguchi says, "But this being a first-year event, we're not quite sure. Obviously, the
    more we raise, the better. If we hit, say, the $200,000 mark, that would be great....

        "Depending on how it goes this time around, we might try to make it at least a biannual
    affair, then turn it eventually into an annual affair. We'll see."

        For tickets or more information, call (510) 762-BASS. Or visit Yamaguchi's Web site at
    kristi.yahoo.com.

        Saturday's "A Golden Moment" will also be taped for television broadcast later this year.
    It is scheduled to air on Lifetime Nov. 7 and on Fox Dec.11.

    by Christina Eng

The second article is more about one of the performers, Jazz keyboardist Keiko Matsui. It's titled:

                              Matsui makes niche in 'this kind of music'

        "This kind of music," as Matsui calls it, is her eclectic-often ethereal-blend of jazz fusion,
    rhythm and blues and straight-ahead improvisation. It's the sort of borderline New Age
    sound her fans adore.

        Expect to see many of them Saturday at the Oakland Arena when the popular performer
    joins Sarah Brightman and Taylor Dayne, as well as Olympic figure-skating medalists Kristi
    Yamaguchi, Ekaterina Gordeeva and Katarina Witt, in "A Golden Moment."
        Proceeds from this ice skating concert will support the fight against breast cancer.


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