First Obama Scandal
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Clearly this is grounds for impeachment.
So? They knew that it was going to be freezing and that the music would sound like crap with frozen fingers.
Some people just need to find negatives in everything. Doesn't surprise me that it is coming from the NY times.
The less you read and watch the news the happier you will be and you will actually enjoy life.
Some people just need to find negatives in everything. Doesn't surprise me that it is coming from the NY times.
The less you read and watch the news the happier you will be and you will actually enjoy life.
yeah, damn the right wing forces controlled NY Times.
Man, I was actually figuring they had hand warmers in their pockets and left the cocoon at the last second before playing...it hurt just to watch the fingering in all that cold.
(That wasfun to say.)
Kinda disappointing. The music was sort of a strange choice, though...very atmospheric, but not very thematic. I mean, I liked it...just didn't seem the type of thing for the occasion. Will Obama have the first ambient presidency?
(That wasfun to say.)
Kinda disappointing. The music was sort of a strange choice, though...very atmospheric, but not very thematic. I mean, I liked it...just didn't seem the type of thing for the occasion. Will Obama have the first ambient presidency?
Compared to invading a country that posed no threat, costing us trillions, thousands of lives and sinking us into financial ruin, there really isn't much of a comparison.
I'm patiently waiting to see all the old crap coming to an end. Step 1 - gitmo. If after 7 years if we don't have enough info to try someone, then it will never happen.
We have got a lot of crap to clean up.
Plus, we should deport yo yo ma for his deceit of the american people.
I'm patiently waiting to see all the old crap coming to an end. Step 1 - gitmo. If after 7 years if we don't have enough info to try someone, then it will never happen.
We have got a lot of crap to clean up.
Plus, we should deport yo yo ma for his deceit of the american people.
I was kind of relieved to know it was recorded...although also a bit sad to think they endured the cold fingers and weren't being heard live. Yo-Yo Ma didn't seem bummed about it at all. I love watching that guy play. All of them actually but he can be exceptionally delightful.
As much as I am against it, any stringed instrument would have gone out of tune in that weather/temperature. Makes sense.
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.
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.
"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."
The Marine Band, the youth choruses and the Navy Band Sea Chanters performed live, Florman said, although Aretha Franklin was accompanied by taped music and voices.
Florman said all the acts "laid down tape" before Tuesday's inauguration. When they did their sound checks on Monday, all but the quartet made the decision to have their live performances broadcast.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/01/22/famed-quartet-played-recordings-tunes-inauguration/
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.
"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."
The Marine Band, the youth choruses and the Navy Band Sea Chanters performed live, Florman said, although Aretha Franklin was accompanied by taped music and voices.
Florman said all the acts "laid down tape" before Tuesday's inauguration. When they did their sound checks on Monday, all but the quartet made the decision to have their live performances broadcast.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/01/22/famed-quartet-played-recordings-tunes-inauguration/
Not to mention, I somehow doubt Itzak brought his Strat (stratovarius) on stage, but rather a lesser valued model...a $1M+ instrument is not something you bring out in dry cold air just for show...
I'm going to burn my Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon soundtrack tonight. I'm outraged. 
Much-ado about nothing.
Much-ado about nothing.
Yeah...you put a crack in that bad boy, game over.
I can haz new soundpost?!?
Two words: "John. Williams."MikeD said:
Blech.
I like how right before breaking into a variation on 'Simple Gifts' they put up Johnny's name and his "original compositions" title. Good thing he only directly plagiarizes public domain pieces...(wok wok wok)
A-friggin'-men
milli yo-yo vanilli 
Nope.. Obama will be the second. William Henry Harrison was the first.
And with the musical appreciation that has gone on with the presidency in the past....that's perfectly acceptable....
See what I did there....
I hope so...