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Whether Jimmy Jones was on a grand stage or dressed as a T-Rex, his music captivated

J immy Jones could put on a white tie and tails, sit down at an organ, and captivate large audiences of paying classical-music lovers — as he did, for instance, with the symphonies in Cape Town, South Africa, Sacramento and Portland, Maine.

But while doing so would bring him joy, Jones almost certainly would have said he experienced even greater pleasure as an artist in church, his spouse Robert Moody believes.

While wearing a dinosaur costume.

“If he were in this conversation right now, he would talk about how putting together the most impactful, artistically satisfying, musical, Easter Sunday-morning service was more important than playing a concerto with the New York Philharmonic,” Moody says.

Jones’ passion, he continues, was “reaching not just musical heights, but spiritual heights. ...

“He did do a good number of the great organ concertos with great orchestras. But I think he was much, much, much more proud of his ‘Phantom of the Organ’ Halloween concert for kids at Myers Park, where he dressed up like a T-Rex and played music from ‘Jurassic Park.’”

James Jones — who spent more than a decade as a dynamic and beloved director of music at Myers Park United Methodist Church in Charlotte — died suddenly last Sunday at his home in Memphis, Tennessee.

Moody, himself music director of the Memphis Symphony Orchestra, says the coroner’s initial observation was that his spouse of 18 years had a heart attack. Jones was 41.

‘You were just anointed by God’

Jones’ parents are not farmers, but they live on a beautiful piece of farmland in Lee County (about 2-1/2 hours east of Charlotte), where Jones grew up four-wheeling and deer hunting and fishing. Even so, his family also had a strong affinity for classical music, so it’s little surprise that Jones ended up in front of a piano at a young age.

He was introduced to the organ when he was about 11 years old, while in a summer program for gifted students. And he fell for it, hard.

“I’ll never forget this,” recalls his original organ teacher, Danny Hester. “We had a new pipe organ at my church — Jonesboro United Methodist Church in Sanford — and it had been a very popular thing in town because everybody loved hearing it. He was taking lessons on that, and at the end of his second lesson, he got off the bench and walked about halfway across the pulpit area, stopped, stood there, looked up at the pipes, and smiled. His eyes just glowed.

“I thought, Ohhhh, young boy. You don’t know it, but you were just anointed by God. Your life is music.”

Hester, now adjunct professor of organ at Campbell University in Buies Creek, says Jones had a natural gift but also worked tirelessly. He remembers occasions when Jones would extend his own practice sessions so long that Hester actually had to kick his student off the organ ... because it was eating into time that he needed to spend practicing.

Before Jones had even turned 12, he earned his first payday — $25 — as an organist for a one-off local Sunday-morning church service. (His parents never cashed the check, and it sits in a frame over the organ in Jones and Moody’s home.)

By 15, Jones had a steady gig at Divine Street United Methodist Church in Dunn, 40 miles south of Raleigh. He sat at the organ there pretty much every Sunday until heading off to study organ performance at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston-Salem.

While working on his bachelor’s degree, he got hired as organist and choirmaster for Westminster Presbyterian Church and its roughly 2,000-member congregation in nearby Greensboro, and after graduating moved to the Gate City full-time.

His new hometown would prove fruitful: It’s where he would earn his master’s degree in choral conducting (from UNC Greensboro) and, more significantly, where he’d meet the love of his life.

Jones and Moody — then the brand-new music director of the Winston-Salem Symphony — met through an online dating site in 2005.

Moody noticed Jones’ screen name had the word “musician” in it, and so he just came right out and asked. “What type of music?,” said his first-ever message to Jones. The reply that came back was just as direct.

“Classical.”

“And the rest is history,” Moody says.

‘It was the best hire I ever made’

James Howell, longtime senior pastor at Myers Park United Methodist Church in Charlotte, remembers the day in 2010 when he met Jones to discuss the opening they had for a music director and organist.

“We talked, gosh, three hours. I didn’t intend to,” says Howell, whose church’s membership was more than twice the size of the one Jones was at in Greensboro. “We just got to talking about the church, music, God, life, everything. And during that conversation, he asked me — I mean, the way he phrased it was amazing — ‘Will I get to work with the children?’

“With a lot of (people interviewing for) senior music positions, it’s like, ‘Will I have to work with the children?’”

Howell was sold, even though Jones practically appeared to be a kid himself. “He looked 17. He was 29,” Howell recalls. “And churches like ours don’t tend to hire a 29-year-old. But it was the best hire I ever made.”

One of the first programs Jones created saw him dressing up the sanctuary that October with fake cobwebs, blacklights, and other assorted Halloween decorations. Called “Phantom of the Organ,” he would combine spooky-sounding organ music and popular songs while wearing, yes, a costume for the occasion.

Over the next decade, he turned Myers Park UMC into a musical juggernaut, commissioning a diverse selection of masterworks; creating a Christmas concert so big it needed to be shifted to a larger venue and split into two performances; growing the chancel choir to nearly 100 singers; and leading the chancel and chamber choirs on three European tours.

Basically, Howell says, “He elevated our music program from really good to just-frickin’-amazing.”

Perhaps equally remarkable? Jones somehow managed to make playing an organ seem cool. “Phantom of the Organ,” for instance, “got kids interested in the organ,” Howell says. “They would come up and want to see it.”

On top of that, his style of playing was enchanting in its physicality.

“He was so into it,” says Kevin Proffit, Myers Park UMC’s tenor section leader and a member of the choir since before Jones took it over. “I mean, he moved . Lots of movement , and you could hear him breathing at times, and his fancy pedal work with his feet was really impressive. It was a joy to watch — and a joy to hear.”

But perhaps more than anything, those who knew him best say, it was a joy to simply be in his orbit at all.

Moody says his spouse “very easily won the hearts of the littlest kids and the eldest persons in the church,” and in turn, the church had apparently won Jones’ heart: When Moody’s hiring by the Memphis Symphony Orchestra in 2016 necessitated a move to Tennessee, Jones stayed in Charlotte to continue his work with the church, with the couple doing the long-distance thing for the next five years.

It wasn’t until 2021, during COVID, that Jones finally decided it was time to join Moody in Memphis.

But in many ways, his heart stayed in Carolina.

‘Everyone in heaven knows this’

It was clear from his final Facebook post .

Last Saturday night, Jones — dressed in a navy-blue Carolina hoodie and a gray UNC ballcap — posted a video on the site of him saying a prayer with his and Moody’s dog Presley, whom he’d squeezed into a Carolina-blue T-shirt. Jones was praying for the UNC Tar Heels men’s basketball team to beat the Duke Blue Devils with his tongue in his cheek, deadpanning that, “well, Devils just don’t belong to the kingdom of God, Lord.”

The Tar Heels would go on to beat the Blue Devils, 93-84.

So, although it’s very small consolation, there’s good reason to believe Jones died happy. There’s also reason to believe he’s smiling right now in the afterlife, too, Moody says.

He explains: “The operatic superstar Renée Fleming, who just won the Kennedy Center Honors a couple months ago, we know her,” Moody says, “and I did not reach out to her, but somehow the word got to her, and she sent me the most beautiful text saying how sorry she was and how much she loved Jimmy.

“I will tell you, if he’s able to share this news in heaven, everyone in heaven knows this by now: that he got a text from Renée Fleming. He would be putting that on a billboard.”

Moody has to fight back tears as he talks over the phone, from the passenger seat of a car headed from Tennessee to North Carolina for Saturday’s memorial service in Sanford for Jones. He’s still reeling from the shock of the tragedy, he says, and adds that he canceled all of his music-directing obligations for the next month.

There is one date in March, however, he left alone. One he doesn’t dare miss. On March 10, at Arizona Musicfest in Scottsdale, Moody will lead the festival orchestra as it presents the premiere of a performance by ...

... Renée Fleming.

“There’s no way I could cancel that, because he would have my head,” Moody says. “He was slated to play piano in the orchestra with her, and he was so incredibly looking forward to it.”

He takes a slow, deep breath.

“We had planned for many, many more years than this,” he says, then pauses one more time before adding, “but I’m so grateful for the 18 that we got.”

©2024 The Charlotte Observer. Visit charlotteobserver.com. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.

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Jones hangs on for win at final PGA TOUR Canada qualifying tournament

COURTENAY, British Columbia—It was a popular win as Jimmy Jones held it together just enough to walk away with medalist honors at Crown Isle Resort, shooting an even-par round of 72 Friday to capture the top spot at the sixth and final 2023 PGA TOUR Canada Qualifying Tournament.

Jones—who lists Lake Cowichan, British Columbia, as home and is the son of the late LPGA Canadian great Dawn Coe-Jones—had a strong following all week, just two hours from his mom’s hometown.

It was just as an attractive runner-up finish for Max Sear, who hails from the provincial capital of Victoria, where the opening tournament—the Royal Beach Victoria Open—begins play this coming week as PGA TOUR Canada’s ninth and final season gets underway.

Sear, a member of Royal Colwood in Victoria, had family and friends on hand to witness his play as he tied for second with U.S. player Carr Vernon, a stroke behind Jones’ leading pace.

Jones and Sear started the day in the top two spots, respectively—with Jones holding a two-stroke lead—and managed to hang on for the gallery that followed. The winner had rounds of 72-63-68-72, finishing at 13-under, while Sear suffered a double bogey on his final hole for a 1-under 71 to fall one shot short of forcing a playoff.

Vernon birdied his last two holes to catch Sear with his round of 69.

With the win, Jones earns full playing privileges for the year, eligible for every open tournament. It was an emotion triumph, he admitted.

“The nerves were real. Exciting nerves, too. This win is going to bring me to tears,” he said, his eyes starting to mist up. “This one is for Mom. She was up there, cheering me on, and it means a lot to me, especially with all the support here.

“It feels, like we said [Thursday], like a home game. You want to perform for everybody in the crowd. But there were a lot of emotions and thoughts out there. Everyone knows golf, though, you have to keep it simple, and that was the goal.”

It was a cautious start as Jones had to hit a provisional drive on the first tee, but he luckily found the errant first tee shot. He had three birdies and three bogeys on the day and gutted things out, which the fans appreciated at tournament’s end.

“I signed a bunch of autographs today, more than I ever have, which is pretty cool and makes you feel good. It’s so special to have my boy Mark (Valliere, his caddie) with me and my godmother, Kelly, was here watching,” said Jones.

“It was Family Part Two up here, and it’s something I will always wear on my sleeve, and I hope to come back here as many times as I can,” said the Tampa-born Jones, who won with the tattoo DCJ (his mom’s initials) and a Maple Leaf freshly stamped on his right wrist.

Jones was also glad he pulled off the win and had Sear there right behind to make it a Vancouver Island affair.

“We had a fun day. We were chatting a lot, and I’ve known Carr, too, from playing college, so it was a good grouping,” Jones said.

As for Sear, it was a bit of a struggle all day, but his putter saved him just enough, until the final hole when he missed an eight-footer for bogey that would have forced a playoff with Jones.

“I didn’t have my best stuff. I struggled all day, hitting wipey cuts again. I just managed it with a good couple of up and downs before I completely puked on myself on the last hole,” he said. “I slipped on the drive (on 18); chipped it out; hit another bad shot; bad chip and missed the putt and missed by one.

“It is what it is. I’d rather do it now than when there’s a purse on the line, I guess,” Sear said, still glad to have played in the final grouping. “I had never played with Jimmy before, so it was nice to connect. Any time you can feel like it’s a home game and play well makes it that much sweeter.”

Several others made their charges to earn exemptions through the first half of the season, including Canadian amateur Matthew Anderson, who just turned pro, finishing fourth after his final-round 66 propelled him 11 spots.

Tyson Dinsmore’s 67 left him fifth, while Kyle Vance made the biggest leap, with his 8-under 64 that left him tied for sixth with fellow U.S. player Daniel Wetterich and Canadian Raoul Ménard, who both shot 69s.

A four-player playoff featuring Canadians A.J. Ewart and Jake Lane and U.S. players Hagen Fell and Dylan Healey produced the last two exemption spots for the first half of the season with Lane making a par on the third extra hole to advance and Healey making birdie on the fifth playoff hole to secure the final spot.

Ewart and Fell, along with 18 others, picked up conditional playing status.

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Jones hangs on for win at final PGA TOUR Canada Qualifying Tournament

COURTENAY, British Columbia—It was a popular win as Jimmy Jones held it together just enough to walk away with medalist honors at Crown Isle Resort, shooting an even-par round of 72 Friday to capture the top spot at the sixth and final 2023 PGA TOUR Canada Qualifying Tournament.

Jones—who lists Lake Cowichan, British Columbia, as home and is the son of the late LPGA Canadian great Dawn Coe-Jones—had a strong following all week, just two hours from his mom’s hometown.

It was just as an attractive runner-up finish for Max Sear, who hails from the provincial capital of Victoria, where the opening tournament—the Royal Beach Victoria Open—begins play this coming week as PGA TOUR Canada’s ninth and final season gets underway.

Sear, a member of Royal Colwood in Victoria, had family and friends on hand to witness his play as he tied for second with U.S. player Carr Vernon, a stroke behind Jones’ leading pace.

Jones and Sear started the day in the top two spots, respectively—with Jones holding a two-stroke lead—and managed to hang on for the gallery that followed. The winner had rounds of 72-63-68-72, finishing at 13-under, while Sear suffered a double bogey on his final hole for a 1-under 71 to fall one shot short of forcing a playoff.

Vernon birdied his last two holes to catch Sear with his round of 69.

With the win, Jones earns full playing privileges for the year, eligible for every open tournament. It was an emotion triumph, he admitted.

“The nerves were real. Exciting nerves, too. This win is going to bring me to tears,” he said, his eyes starting to mist up. “This one is for Mom. She was up there, cheering me on, and it means a lot to me, especially with all the support here.

“It feels, like we said [Thursday], like a home game. You want to perform for everybody in the crowd. But there were a lot of emotions and thoughts out there. Everyone knows golf, though, you have to keep it simple, and that was the goal.”

It was a cautious start as Jones had to hit a provisional drive on the first tee, but he luckily found the errant first tee shot. He had three birdies and three bogeys on the day and gutted things out, which the fans appreciated at tournament’s end.

“I signed a bunch of autographs today, more than I ever have, which is pretty cool and makes you feel good. It’s so special to have my boy Mark (Valliere, his caddie) with me and my godmother, Kelly, was here watching,” said Jones.

“It was Family Part Two up here, and it’s something I will always wear on my sleeve, and I hope to come back here as many times as I can,” said the Tampa-born Jones, who won with the tattoo DCJ (his mom’s initials) and a Maple Leaf freshly stamped on his right wrist.

Jones was also glad he pulled off the win and had Sear there right behind to make it a Vancouver Island affair.

“We had a fun day. We were chatting a lot, and I’ve known Carr, too, from playing college, so it was a good grouping,” Jones said.

As for Sear, it was a bit of a struggle all day, but his putter saved him just enough, until the final hole when he missed an eight-footer for bogey that would have forced a playoff with Jones.

“I didn’t have my best stuff. I struggled all day, hitting wipey cuts again. I just managed it with a good couple of up and downs before I completely puked on myself on the last hole,” he said. “I slipped on the drive (on 18); chipped it out; hit another bad shot; bad chip and missed the putt and missed by one.

“It is what it is. I’d rather do it now than when there’s a purse on the line, I guess,” Sear said, still glad to have played in the final grouping. “I had never played with Jimmy before, so it was nice to connect. Any time you can feel like it’s a home game and play well makes it that much sweeter.” 

Several others made their charges to earn exemptions through the first half of the season, including Canadian amateur Matthew Anderson, who just turned pro, finishing fourth after his final-round 66 propelled him 11 spots.

Tyson Dinsmore’s 67 left him fifth, while Kyle Vance made the biggest leap, with his 8-under 64 that left him tied for sixth with fellow U.S. player Daniel Wetterich and Canadian Raoul Ménard, who both shot 69s.

A four-player playoff featuring Canadians A.J. Ewart and Jake Lane and U.S. players Hagen Fell and Dylan Healey produced the last two exemption spots for the first half of the season with Lane making a par on the third extra hole to advance and Healey making birdie on the fifth playoff hole to secure the final spot.

Ewart and Fell, along with 18 others, picked up conditional playing status.

Did you know that 2022 PGA TOUR Canada Fortinet Cup winner Wil Bateman  earned the right to start in the field at the PGA TOUR’s Canadian Open in Ontario this week and turned in a scintillating, 6-under 66 Friday to move into a tie for 23rd after two rounds at Oakdale Golf and Country Club? The 66 moved him up 84 spots on the leaderboard after an opening 74.

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PGA TOUR Canada, along with PGA TOUR Latinoamérica, are international PGA TOUR-sanctioned tours that provide access to the Korn Ferry Tour and are part of the pathway to the PGA TOUR. Since its inception in 2013, PGA TOUR Canada has held 34 Qualifying Tournaments across the U.S. and Canada. This event was the final of six 2023 PGA TOUR Canada Qualifiers scheduled in advance of the 2023 season. Each qualifier was a 72-hole, no-cut event, with playoffs, if necessary, for the medalist position and for the 10th and final position available.

One-hundred-seventeen players started the tournament Tuesday, with 114 completing all 72 holes. Below is a breakdown of the various PGA TOUR Canada memberships earned this week.   

• There were 15 amateurs playing at Crown Isle Resort. The top finisher was Matthew Anderson of Mississauga, Ontario, who was fourth after rounds of 70-69-72-66 – 277. He, of course, turns pro with the result. Here are the three players who earned status this week:

Etienne Brault  of Mercier, Quebec, ran into a nice stretch of holes midway through his final round. A birdie on No. 8 was followed by par on 9 before he birdied the 10th hole and eagled the par-4 11th with a rare deuce on the hole that plays 401 yards. It was the third eagle on the hole for the week and second on the day as  Hagen   Fell  also turned the trick Friday after  Ty   Campbell  completed the feat in the second round.

Callum   McNeill , who shot a course record 60 on day two and was in position for a finish that would lead to exempt status, struggled to a 75 and fell 11 places into a tie for 14th. The Scotsman started the day four shots back of winner Jimmy Jones. McNeill will have conditional status this season. 

Crown Isle had been good to  Jimmy   Jones  and  Max   Sear . Sear finished fourth here last year and Jones tied for seventh.

Matthew   Anderson , of Mississauga, Ontario, got on a heater in the much-cooler temperatures Friday, weather that also featured some light rain throughout the day. Anderson finished with seven birdies and a bogey for an impeccable round of 6-under 66. “It feels good. I definitely expected to be sitting in this position, with status, but it’s actually nice to have done it. Having to go out and shoot a good round when I needed it was cool as well,” he said.

Kyle   Vance  made a big leap of his own via a spectacular 8-under 64 that moved him up 27 places into the tie for sixth and status through the first half of the season. “I had to make it happen. It was definitely there. I had a great practice round. The second round killed me,” Vance said of his 77. “I felt like I was stumbling. The next round I figured it out and shot minus-5 and then minus-8 to finish. We were checking the leaderboard. I knew I needed two more (birdies) and went birdie-birdie to finish. I really needed it.”

It’s amazing what can transpire when your give-a-darn factor drops. Take  Aidan   Goodfellow  for example. The Parksville, British Columbia, resident got over the disappointment of shooting his way out of a top-10 spot Thursday. With the stress gone, he turned in an 8-under 64 in the final round, adding to his 71-78-77 start. The 64 moved him up 27 positions on the leaderboard, but still left him at 55th overall.

Will   Stewart  from the United States kept a nice, clean scoresheet on his final round, with three birdies on each side and no bogeys to be seen for a 7-under 65. It was a nice bounce-back from his 77 Thursday. The 65 pushed him up 32 spots on the leaderboard to a tie for 40th, but he ultimately fell short of getting his card.

“It was a rough winter. I needed surgery on my hip and couldn’t play for about three months, but the people behind me stuck with me and this is for them. A little fight back to show what I have in me.”  – Kyle Vance

“A lot less than you think. It was a lot of trust in my game that was the main reasoning. That putter got going. I gave myself some chances and took advantage of them.” –  Noah Steele  speaking about the difference in his play the last two days (rounds of 70 and 65) following opening scores of 74-75. His tie for 24th left him with conditional status.

“I’m thrilled. There was a lot of behind-the-scenes work to get me to this stage.”  – Noah Steele

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James Henry "Jimmy" Jones was an American jazz pianist and arranger. As a child, Jones learned guitar and piano. He worked in various orchestras in Chicago from 1936 and played in a trio with Stuff Smith in 1943–45. Following this, he played with Don Byas, Dizzy Gillespie (1945), J.C. Heard (1945–47), Buck Clayton (1946) and Etta Jones. He accompanied Sarah Vaughan from 1947–52, and then again from 1954–57 after a long illness. In 1954 he played on an album with Clifford Brown and accompanied him on his European tour. Around this time, he also played with Helen Merrill and Gil Evans. In 1959, he accompanied Anita O'Day in her appearance at the Newport Jazz Festival, and in 1959 also worked with Dakota Staton, Pat Suzuki, and Morgana King. As a pianist and arranger in New York, he worked in the 1960s with Harry Belafonte, Johnny Hodges, Budd Johnson, Nat Gonella, and Clark Terry. He accompanied Chris Connor on Where Flamingoes Fly, and sat in with the Duke Ellington Orchestra for some of their collaborations with Ella Fitzgerald. Jones did a fine set with his trio (Jimmy Hughart and Grady Tate) at the Antibes Jazz Festival in 1966 and he went on tour with Jazz at the Philharmonic in 1967. In the 1970s, he worked with Kenny Burrell and Cannonball Adderley. In the course of his career, Jones played piano on recordings by Harry Sweets Edison, Ben Webster, Big Joe Turner, Coleman Hawkins, Frank Wess, Milt Jackson, Sidney Bechet, Sonny Rollins, Sonny Stitt, and Thad Jones, and as an arranger for Wes Montgomery, Nancy Wilson, Shirley Horn, Joe Williams, Billy Taylor and Chris Connor.

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Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers August 17, 2015

Jimmy Jones was an in-demand arranger and pianist throughout the 1950s and '60s, working with most leading jazz vocalists and soloists of the era. If you go into Tom Lord's Jazz Discography, you'll find Jones on 307 sessions. But if you modify your search, screened just for Jones's leadership dates, you'll find that the number is dramatically reduced to eight. In truth, there were only seven, since the tracks for Atlantic in 1957 were never issued. Among these seven, the ... read more

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A History of Moscow in 13 Dishes

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... in his own words and in words of those, who knew him

Concert in Moscow 1993

Samvel Gasparov , a movie director, tells the story about MJ' show in Moscow in 1993:

'I heard about Michael Jackson for the first time back in the 70's. I even knew some of his songs, but I never was a fan. When I worked as a truck driver, I used to listen to Georgian music. Later, when I went to college, I grew to like Joe Dassin, Charles Aznavour, Tom Jones, and Engelbert Humperdinck. But I always knew about Jackson, and I knew that he was a good singer. In the early 90's my dream was to make a movie called "Run brother, run". American filmmakers expressed some interest in the script, and in 1992 I went to Romania where we rented a foundation. As it happened, Michael Jackson was giving a show in Bucharest at that time, and I was introduced to his producer Marcel Avram by one of our mutual friends. Marcel asked me to help them tape Michael's concert, and I did what I could. It was a pleasure. The performance left me stunned. Jackson impressed me very much – he was a genius, that's no question. I was personally introduced to him, and I remember shaking his cool pale hand. On the second day at dinner I told Avram about my wish to make a movie in the USA and my need for money. I already had an offer for five movies and lodging in the US by then. "I like you", Avram said. "If you want, we can bring Michael to Moscow. Then you can organize a show and make some money." I thought it would be cool, but I honestly didn't believe it was possible. But soon after that Avram sent his people to Moscow in order to check out Dessa, the company I headed at the time. It was one of the first Russian private companies created for the purpose of movie making, and I had some good folks on my team.

Suddenly the project came to life. Money was pushed to the background in my mind. I was full of enthusiasm, I wanted to bring that joyful event to people – after all, it was the first time a big Star was going to visit Russia. Since the visit of Avram's delegation and till September 1993 we were busy with preparations. It was my first experience in show business, and I couldn't imagine that it would be that hard and unpredictable. I thought that all showbiz "sharks" would support me and help me with that project, but it turned out the other way round – they threw obstacles in my way and tried to prevent the show from happening. We felt that our efforts were not appreciated. We even got phone calls with threats. And we got attacked by the media: they wrote that I was the king of the liquor industry and the head of the Chechen mafia. They said I was organizing the show in order to sell vodka on the stadium. It was a nightmare! They also wrote garbage about Jackson – that he was a pedophile, and that I was going to bring not him, but his impersonator who would lip synch to his songs. But all this crap only turned us on. We decided that we would make the show happen no matter what.

On September 15, 1993 Michael postpones his flight out of Moscow, Russia, and instead goes to visit a hospital for mentally challenged children there, who rejoice at seeing him and fight for his attention. One of his aides says that the singer has asked for one of the children to be flown to America for care and treatment which Jackson will pay for. The singer holds a few children in his arms and on his lap, comforts and plays with them and wishes to entertain them: “I’d like to sing with them. We all know a song together”, he says, visibly emotional. He also visits children in a nearby orphanage, who will sing a song to him in Russian, turning him – the ultimate performer, into an attentive spectator.

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