January 23, 2009
The Inauguration Quartet: Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Itzhak Perlman (violin), Gabriela Montero (piano) and Anthony McGill (clarinet) decided on Monday it was going to be too cold to risk playing live. They did play their instruments but that sound was not amplified to the crowd. Instead, their pre-recorded track of "Air and Simple Gifts" written by John Williams for the inauguration was. So they played but what they played wasn't what we heard on TV. Perfectly fine. If they did it an Orchestra Hall - unconscionable.
It would have been a disaster if we had done it any other way. This occasion's got to be perfect. You can't have any slip-ups.
Aretha Franklin was accompanied by taped music and voices.
The Marine Band, the youth choruses and the Navy Band Sea Chanters performed live.
Luciano Pavarotti had to lip-sync at the 2006 Torino Olympics because it was too cold and the video shown on TV was not even him live. Didn't matter. It was him and his voice and his homeland.
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