Well,
the boy stays cool and keeps right on playing. It is getting
more intricate, faster, deeper. What are we at now, 17 minutes?
Well, we've never been at anything like this! At about 20
minutes, we were motionless. Having trouble breathing. We
are WAY past stunned, and this thing is getting better by
the moment, for Christ's sakes! Now, the audience has stopped
applauding. There are the occasional whoops and hollers,
but it is getting pretty quiet out there, and the reason
is that we are gaining our collective strength. Somewhere
(we calculate at about minute 23) he ends it with a single-note
whack on the D string. The audience, as one, instantaneously,
screamingly jumps to its feet and goes on and on. People
literally dancing up and down with no music playing. We
knew we had just seen something way, way beyond special.
We had experienced, "The Moment". Wasn't it grand?
Then it comes to us in a Gestalt flash. The reason it had
gotten so quiet. We think the audience was actually waiting
for him to end the exciting madness. We have never seen
an audience truly impatient to give an artist a standing
ovation. " Stop! We want to tell you how much we love
you! How much we love THIS!! "
And,
that is the concert of the year. And, that is The Moment.
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