Bob Gilmore alerts me to a video that reveals what Yo-Yo Ma and his gang really played at the inauguration. If memory serves, I think it’s an Elliott Sharp tune. Certainly beats John Williams half-heartedly trying to avoid directly plagiarizing Aaron Copland.
The First Downtown Inauguration After All
February 9, 2009 by
Notice it lasts precisely 4 minutes and 33 seconds.
KG replies: Mary Jane Leach said the same thing, but somehow I had a duplicate post, and hers got accidentally erased when I deleted it. Great minds think alike.
Brilliant. I just had 3 non-musician friends laughing their heads off.
hi, this is a good editorial about the faked YoyoMa performance.
http://online.wsj.com/article/
SB123388674781555341.html
OPINION: TASTE
FEBRUARY 5, 2009, 11:25 P.M. ET
That Synching Feeling
By ERIC FELTEN