It Just Doesn't Get Better Than This

Probably due to Pavarotti's recent death, PBS has once again recycled the Three Tenors concert for their pledge drives.

Well this may be heretical for a traditionalist such as myself, but there is no more exciting moment for me, than the sound of the three greatest tenors in the world (and they were) going for that high B natural at the end of Nessun dorma.

These three men, two of them at the peak of their forms and one recently recovered from leukemia were singers of great accomplishment. At that moment they used their considerable art for a moment of pure excitement.

After this moment, one's career would begin a cheapening and decline, another's would peter out into insignificance, and one's would continue it's increasing level of achievement which, despite diminishing resources, shows no sign of abating.

But for this moment, they reached a level that none other (not even themselves four years later) would ever climb.

For that one moment, it just didn't get any better.