Turns out Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman, Anthony McGill and Gabriela Montero were not really playing at the presidential inauguration, the New York Times reports. Well, they were playing, just not that day. Well, they played that day, but that's not the performance everyone heard. They were doing the instrumental version of lip-synching.
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Peter Dobrin has been writing about classical music and the arts for The Inquirer since 1989. He earned an undergraduate degree in performance from the University of Miami, and received a master's degree in music criticism from the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University.
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Comments (2)
Oh, If only I could get away with that on a gig...but we pipers dont need to...I'm stayin in tune: even at 11F.
Posted by CHasR | January 23, 2009 9:08 AM
Posted on January 23, 2009 09:08
As a violin player, I was wondering how they could be playing stringed instruments out there and holding intonation. I can't say that I'm surprised.
Posted by David | January 23, 2009 9:54 AM
Posted on January 23, 2009 09:54