{"id":1030,"date":"2009-01-23T08:15:40","date_gmt":"2009-01-23T12:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/godandculture.wordpress.com\/?p=1030"},"modified":"2009-01-26T20:17:45","modified_gmt":"2009-01-27T01:17:45","slug":"milli-yo-yo-ma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/milli-yo-yo-ma","title":{"rendered":"Milli Yo-Yo Ma?"},"content":{"rendered":"

For me, the best part of the Inaugural ceremonies was the beautiful performance by Cellist Yo-Yo Ma, violinist Itzhak Perlman, pianist Gabriella Montero and clarinetist Anthony McGill. The blogosphere was buzzing later in the day about how wonderful the performance was given how cold it was. Now comes this disappointing report from FoxNews:
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Whether you loved or hated the classical music played at President Barack Obama’s inauguration, what you heard was a recording made two days earlier unless you were sitting within earshot of the celebrated performers.<\/p>\n

Cellist Yo-Yo Ma, violinist Itzhak Perlman, pianist Gabriella Montero and clarinetist Anthony McGill made the decision a day before Tuesday’s inauguration after a sound check to use a previously recorded audio tape for the broadcast of the ceremonies.<\/p>\n

Carole Florman, a spokeswoman for the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies, said the weather was too cold for the instruments to stay in tune.<\/p>\n

“They were very insistent on playing live until it became clear that it would be too cold,” said Florman in a telephone interview Thursday night.<\/p>\n

People sitting nearby could hear the musicians play “Air and Simple Gifts”, written for the inauguration by John Williams, but their instruments were not amplified.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So, the oath was a do-over, the music was canned; now if we could just do something about that inane poem!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For me, the best part of the Inaugural ceremonies was the beautiful performance by Cellist Yo-Yo Ma, violinist Itzhak Perlman, pianist Gabriella Montero and clarinetist Anthony McGill. The blogosphere was buzzing later in the day about how wonderful the performance … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1030"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1047,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030\/revisions\/1047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}