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Saturday, June 11, 2005
Playing with Sweetness...
Secretary of State Condi Rice took time out of her schedule to play in a concert for an ill soprano.
A musician long before she became an academic and then a world-famous diplomat, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice took to the Kennedy Center concert stage Saturday to accompany a young soprano battling an often-fatal disease.I just thought this was cool. No politics. Just art. (the post's title? Condi's name comes from musical term con dolezza- play with sweetness.)
Rice's rare and unpublicized appearance at the piano marked a striking departure from her routine as America's No. 1 diplomat. A pianist from the age of 3 she played a half-dozen selections to accompany Charity Sunshine, a 21-year-old singer who was diagnosed with pulmonary hypertension a little more than a year ago.
