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                   Please 
                    join us Washington, DC on Friday, December 31, 1999 for the 
                    countdown to the new millennium including light and laser 
                    shows with fireworks to the sounds of choirs and orchestras. 
                     
                     
                    The 
                    Midnight Moment will be a spectacular high-tech sound 
                    and light display between the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington 
                    Monument that will be the nation's salute to the new century. 
                    Citizens from across the nation will be able to come together 
                    and share this extraordinary moment in history live on television. 
                    It will conclude with American children - joined by the stars 
                    of the gala, choruses and the hundreds of thousands of celebrants 
                    on the Mall - raising their voices in a rousing sing-along 
                    to lift our hearts in the first hour of the new millennium. 
                    America's Millennium Gala will be a night to remember - an 
                    historic event in which every American will want to be included. 
                    It will be telecast to the world, broadcast on radio, and 
                    transmitted by special arrangement on the Internet via the 
                    World Wide Web.   
                  A 
                    list 
                    of participants will be added to this page as they become 
                    available. 
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