Ms. Choi, a Korean-American, did something larger and more original than ingeniously devise a foreigner experiencing America.
But even more than that I am endlessly fascinated by him and his lifelong quest to do something large, to impact America, through football.
But of course he's right, he did do something large and worthwhile, of which the relentless playing of David Bowie was but a small yet memorable part.
"Rather than do something large scale, the idea was individual voices shining an individual light against the darkness," said Ara Guzelimian, Carnegie Hall's artistic adviser and senior director, explaining the concert was planned about 10 days ago.
Setting aside campaign politics and the brouhaha over how exactly Obama put together his memoir, Maraniss has done something larger.
Whoever wins the election may have a chance to do something larger: propose a new defining idea for American foreign policy.
"I like their way of listening and their deep interest in music, and so I thought it was possible to do something larger and different.
If you really want someone you love to make a change, the key is to ask them to do something small and easy first because that increases the chances they will do something larger later.
"I wanted to do something larger that could be applied to business jet and commuter jet size, and even bigger transport size," he says.
