1 commentMonday Morning Music #18
“Air and Simple Gifts” by John Williams, as performed at the Inauguration by Itzhak Perlman, Yo Yo Ma, Gabriela Montero and Anthony McGill:
It’s simply beautiful music, I don’t think I really have anything more to say than that. This was my favorite part of the ceremony. The multiculturalism of the quartet really adds something to the moment, too.
OBLIGATORY SPOILER: The performance itself wasn’t amplified, they had to play a recording because it was too cold out to feasibly keep the instruments in tune. Having watched this before and after learning that fact, it really doesn’t take away from it.
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Yeah, I’m glad they played a recording… from where I was standing, this performance sounded really beautiful— but with Aretha Franklin’s performance, the audio quality was just terrible.
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