It's the ultimate back-up group: 12 male singers accompanying Frederica von Stade on solo vocals, and with a great backdrop, the Met's Temple of Dendur, to boot.
"If I had a back-up group now," she says, "I would do the old songs like All Tomorrow's Parties and I'll Be Your Mirror.
The two had started playing together in Canada as members of Ronnie Hawkins's band; the Band became Mr. Dylan's electrified back-up group before putting out their own albums.
The smoothed out vocals give the songs a fuller, pumped up sound, but it's a bit like hearing the Andrews Sisters with only Patty and an anonymous back-up group, while Maxene and LaVerne take a break.
But Brown found and assembled another back-up group as he pushed his career forward with hits like; It's a Man's World, Payback, Sex Machine, I Got You, and Get Up Offa That Thing.
"We know Hungary will be tough to beat, but if we get a full house behind us again, there's no reason why we can't make it back up into Group I of the Davis Cup again," Smith added.
Once the capoeira started back up, the group's paranoia quickly faded.
And he moved to New York City in the 2002 to study jazz, embarking on a professional career that's taken him all over the world, singing back up for groups like the Roots and Usher, to writing songs with Prince and Esperanze Spalding, to dropping his own excellent projects, like 2012's trippy LOVElife Is a Challenge and 2016's excellent LOVE BOMB cover EP.
After a difficult half-hour we reached the end of the traverse, the junction of a new valley that led back up towards the group of mountains we had crossed.
Only Andrea didn't make it back to join back up with the group, because everyone else managed to get in a vehicle and she was left on foot.
But like any meme, it always bubbles back up when a new group of people discover it.
