Given that Place de la Concorde was his only previous outdoor show at that time, and it happened seven years’ earlier, how, and why did Houston get in touch and then agree to a show format that was pretty much untested, and indeed, ‘dated’ by this point? I know he was approached by the Houston Opera, and Mayor Kathy Whitmore was key to this project, and then NASA got involved. But it still seems like a rather random approach to an artist not widely known in America and with extraordinarily little live experience. Big risk!
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