'This Isn't Milli Vanilli': Obama Inauguration Music Was Pre-Recorded [memories of ChiCom Olympics]

FoxNews.com ^ | January 22, 2009

[ETL]

WASHINGTON -- Whether you loved or hated the classical music played at President Barack Obama's inauguration, what you heard was a recording made two days earlier unless you were sitting within earshot of the celebrated performers.

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.

[ETL]

"The audience will understand that it's in the national interest"

Official: Child Singer Not Pretty Enough for Olympics Opener: Girl Lip-Syncs Her Song
FoxNews, August 12, 2008

A member of China's Politburo asked for the last-minute change to match one girl's face with another's voice, the ceremony's chief music director, Chen Qigang, said in an interview with Beijing Radio.

"The audience will understand that it's in the national interest," Chen said in a video of the interview posted online Sunday night.

[the "not-pretty-enough" little girl who
actually sang the song is on the left]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,402093,00.html

[Dixie Yooper]

I feel so.....cheated.

[DBCJR]

Reminds me of the Wizard at the Emerald Palace, behind the curtain.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

She was Smelly Cat.

[Obadiah]

I think it’s fitting as we have the Milli Vanilli president who won the American Idol contest back in November.

[paltz]

Oh...I thought this was a thread about Greg Craig the famous ventriliquist

[ETL]

Reminds me of the Wizard at the Emerald Palace, behind the curtain.

Well, at least it apparently was their own music that was on the recording. It's not quite like the ChiCom situation.

[stayathomemom]

Obama is really George Soros. It explains a lot of things.

[DBCJR]

Yeah, I see this as a non-story. It was a pragmatic thing due to the cold weather.

[whattajoke]

With 1000 other things to drive me nuts on Tuesday, this is not one of them.

As the article continues on to state, it was too cold for the woodwinds and strings to stay in tune. As a veteran playing such events, I can attest to the accuracy of that. It WAS them playing and they DID play, just not miked up.

And please, Yo-Yo Ma is not one to make fun of!

[Hot Tabasco]

I enjoyed the music by the group and have no problem with the fact it was pre-recorded. In fact while watching them perform I said to myself "self, with the temperature so cold, wouldn't that have a disasterous effect on those stringed instruments and wouldn't McGill's lips stick to his clarinet?"

I would also bet that the instruments in use were just cheap off brands purchased from Wal-Mart or Target and not their regular instruments.

[Merlinator]

Even the music is an illusion, why does this not suprise me?

[Merlinator]

With Hillary as the wicked witch and Sarah as Dorothy.

[Obadiah]

With 1000 other things to drive me nuts on Tuesday, this is not one of them.

Agreed.

[StAntKnee]

“With 1000 other things to drive me nuts on Tuesday, this is not one of them.
Agreed.”

Smile. It’s a tiny segment of the news show about NOTHING.

[ETL]

With 1000 other things to drive me nuts on Tuesday, this is not one of them.

I agree. There were many other things going on during the festivities that were more disturbing than that, if you would even consider that 'disturbing'.

This next one, I think, was much more troubling...

"We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration At The Lincoln Memorial"

http://www.zimbio.com/pictures/4Jfw6fON_zH/One+Obama+Inaugural+Celebration+Lincoln+Memorial/1NNi5cTZF2d/Bruce+Springsteen
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From David Horowitz's FrontPageMag.com/DiscoverTheNetwork.org:
Profile: PETE SEEGER

*Musician, folksinger, songwriter, and political activist

*Joined the Communist Party in 1942

*"I'm still a Communist" -- Pete Seeger, 2004

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1619
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"He also accuses me [Ronald Radosh] of attacking Pete Seeger for 'the consistency of his commitment to peace and social justice,' ignoring that what I argued is that Seeger’s only consistency was to the current Communist Party line; that in fact, Seeger was antiwar during the period of the Nazi-Soviet Pact; pro-war after the Soviet Union was the ally of the United States; and anti-war during the years of the Cold War and Vietnam. To Nichols -a rather dense left-winger -it is good form to acknowledge that perhaps 'Stalin was a bad guy,' and then simply get over it, and move on to campaign for very American socialist causes." --Ronald Radosh (former communist)

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=01133F31-CE9A-40BC-B797-47CBB0023EF4
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"... on April 22, 1970, [the very first] Earth Day was held, one of the most remarkable happenings in the history of democracy... "
--American Heritage Magazine, October 1993
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Earth Day, April 22, 1970:
"The nationwide event included opposition to the Vietnam War on the agenda, but this was thought to detract for the environmental message.
Pete Seeger was a keynote speaker and performer at the event held in Washington DC."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Day#Earth_Day_1970 ________________________________________________________

Vladimir Lenin
Владимир Ильич Ленин
Chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars
In office: November 8, 1917 – January 21, 1924

Born April 22, 1870
Died January 21, 1924
Political party Bolshevik Party
Profession Politician, revolutionary

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Lenin
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Earth Day founded on Lenin's 100th birthday? --yeah, it's a "coincidence". LOL!

[Raster Man]

Too bad they didn’t prerecord Elizabeth Alexander while they were at it.

[randita]

Yeah, I see this as a non-story. It was a pragmatic thing due to the cold weather.

Exactly. Condensation freezes inside wind instruments in freezing temps, so the players have to constantly be blowing warm air into their instruments even when not playing to keep them thawed out. Intonation is severely affected by cold weather, requiring instrumentalists to use all kinds of alternate fingerings to play in tune. Fingers get cold and stiff and the loss of flexibility and sensation is problematic (in all instruments, but esp. in strings).

I'm told the brass players use plastic mouthpieces in cold weather because the metal mouthpieces get too cold.

[DBCJR]

The military bands used specialized carbon threaded instruments made for cold conditions, not instruments that such masters would even consider.

[Thermalseeker]

I feel so.....cheated.

I've been feeling that way since early November.....