Condoleezza Rice plays it again for Charity

[emad]

June 13, 2005
From Roland Watson in Washington

CONDOLEEZZA RICE, who took her first piano lesson at the age of three and was a would-be concert pianist in her teens, played in front of a packed theatre at the weekend to raise awareness of a rare and life-threatening disease.

The US Secretary of State accompanied a 21-year-old soprano who had pulmonary hypertension, a lung disease, diagnosed a little more than a year ago. Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick sang as Dr Rice played selections by Verdi, Mozart and Jerome Kern.

Ms Tillemann-Dick, who uses Charity Sunshine as her stage name, is the granddaughter of Tom Lantos, a veteran Californian congressman, the only Holocaust survivor on Capitol Hill and an old friend of Dr Rice.

The concert, at Washington’s Kennedy Centre, was Dr Rice’s idea after Mr Lantos had told her about his granddaughter’s plight. Kofi Annan, Secretary-General of the United Nations, was among the political and diplomatic members of the audience.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,170-1652094,00.html

[goclark]

1. She has been "playing" all of us for fools

for her entire poublic life.,

She is a wolf piano player is sheeps clothing.

[Avalux]

2. Wow. I had no idea Condi had such a kind, caring heart -

and it truly shows in her face. :puke:

[Benhurst]

3. ...

:puke:

[Village Idiot]

4. Gee - that's great.

All Nero was able to do was FIDDLE while Rome burned...

[Goldeneye]

5. I don't know if we should attack her

for one of the few good things she has done in her life. God, she lied about war, lets attack her for that.