Five Ring Circus

Ladies and gentlemen I am here today to warn you about a new menace to relationships everywhere. For the next 16 days a threat so huge is looming that people will be left reeling. Spouses will seemingly vanish for hours if not days at a time. The war over television viewing will escalate as never before as people try to watch their favourite network shows only to find the television has been commandeered for a darker purpose. Fights will break out as conflicting schedules will create conflict as never before.

That's right, it's the Olympics!! An orgasm of patriotism and television viewing on a scale that makes the superbowl organizers absolutely green with envy. It all begins today with a marathon 3 hour broadcast of the opening ceremonies. While I don't usually partake of the sluggish spectacle that is the Olympics, I will likely try to give it a go for one special reason (well, 2 if you really want to be picky). Dave and Wendy Young have struck again!! You may or may not recall my past post about these musical dynamos, but they have done it again.

Dave was invited to compose a piece for the Olympics by Grammy-nominated composer Christopher Hedge. He's collecting performance clips from around the world to be played in a musical collage at Turin's Piazza Solferino before medal ceremonies. I'm hoping that some of it will air on TV but we will have to tune in and see. Four of the Youngs' students are playing french horn as well as Wendy playing soprano sax for a composition of David's for Hedge's The One Project. David and Christopher vacation in the same place in BC and follow each other's work so Hedge was glad to offer David an opportunity. Hopefully they make it as this would be very cool indeed. At the very least the final product will be webcast and the artist names and links will be in the forums as well so more exposure will likely result.

Good luck to the Youngs and the four students chosen to perform for the recording and filming as they take place this weekend and I look forward to seeing the work. Maybe something entertaining will come from the Olympics after all!!