03-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Washington Post
Performance honors skaters who died in D.C. plane crash
In the center of the vast, sleek ice at Capital One Arena stood a slip of a girl in a bedazzled black and white dress — Isabella Aparicio, poised to begin her skate.
A recording of her late father, 48-year-old Luciano Aparicio, playing Pachelbel's Canon in D, came over the speakers. For 1 minute and 50 seconds, Aparicio glided across the ice, her lyrical movements matching the music.
