A pen pal who heard Condoleeza Rice play in Aspen Aug. 2 offered this account:
You have to give Condi credit for getting up in front of over 2000 people and playing with students who have surpassed her musically. She held her own in one movement of the Dvorak Piano Quintet and a movement of the Brahms Piano Quintet, although I suspect she wasn't familiar with the acoustics of the music tent. Because of that, she didn't give enough weight and therefore relinquished the lead that the piano should have. Still, as one of the students commented, it was a good, just not great, performance. Without a doubt she deserved an A for effort.
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Condoleeza Rice helped start a war against a nation that never attacked us. Hundreds of thousands have died, on all sides; the country is in ruins; 60% of the population doesn't have drinkable water; and America is now up to nearly a trillion dollars in spending, with money borrowed from the Chinese, to finance this disaster.
For Yo-Yo Ma to perform with her publicly, and for music schools to use her in concerts, is like Wilhelm Furtwangler conducting the Horst Wessel Song in Nazi Germany in the 1930s. Disgusting.
Posted by Don Drewecki | August 13, 2008 1:38 PM
Posted on August 13, 2008 13:38