Inaguration Music Staged
Does everyone remember the cute little girl that the Chinease government had lip synch during the opening ceremony because the real singer wasn’t cute enough? Well the US decided to follow their lead during the presidential inaguration.
The classical music that millions watched during President Barack Obama’s inaguration was not live as it appeared to be.
Cellist Yo-Yo Ma, pianist Gabriela Montero, violinist Itzhak Perlman, and clarinetist Anthony McGilly supposedly decided on Monday, just one day before their performance, that they would use a previously recorded tape for the broadcast. The Associated Press reports:
“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.
The decision was made to avoid an embarrassing event like the botched swearing in ceremony.
“It would have been a disaster if we had done it any other way,” Perlman told The New York Times, which first reported that the music was taped on its Web site Thursday. “This occasion’s got to be perfect. You can’t have any slip-ups.”
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March 6th, 2009 at 8:34 pm
I don\’t know why I put anonymous on my comment lol that last comment was me!