>>Completely unfair to the musicians ... There is no grassy knoll
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Ashley sez they tried to play live, but the drummer pressed the wrong button! |
Posted on 01/23/2009 8:18:46 AM PST by Schnucki
It's not exactly Watergate but Barack Obama's inauguration was back in the dock today after it emerged that the quartet of classical musicians who ushered him on to the steps of the Capitol were faking it.
In a report headlined "The Frigid Fingers Were Live, but the Music Wasn't", The New York Times said that the four, including the violinist Itzhak Perlman, had already recorded their contribution two days earlier and played along just for show.
A spokeswoman for the congressional committee, which organised the inauguration, the biggest and most costly in history, told the newspaper that the musicians could not have played live in Tuesday's sub-zero temperatures because of the risk of broken piano strings and cracked instruments.
“No one’s trying to fool anybody. This isn’t a matter of Milli Vanilli," said Carole Florman, referring to the lip-synching pop duo stripped of a Grammy in 1990. “Truly, weather just made it impossible."
Ms Florman said that the use of a recording had not been made public beforehand but the producers overseeing television coverage of the event had been warned that it was likely. All other musical contributions on the day were performed live.
“It’s not something we would announce, but it’s not something we would try to hide,” she added. “Frankly, it would never have occurred to me to announce it."
Joining Mr Perlman for a rendition of Air and Simple Gifts, a, new work by John Williams, was the cellist Yo-Yo Ma, the clarinetist Anthony McGill and the pianist Gabriela Montero. Their performance immediately preceded Mr Obama's swearing-in, in which he uncharacteristically managed to mangle the oath of office.
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Boy, I wondered about that. Growing up with a musician I figured that was going to be one tough gig in the cold. Thanks for the info.
Obama the Milli Vinilli of the White House.
OK some Freeper needs to photo shop of Obama and Biden as Milli Vinilli. I wish I knew how to do that.
A fitting tribute to a FAKE president.
The actual temp was around 20 (F).
My bad.
The whole concept of Television is fake. Fake sets (no backs). Fake emotion. Style no substance.
Sub-zero CENTIGRADE. (It’s a British paper).
So..the music was fake but accurate?
Masters of deceit, not exactly. Purveyors of deceit yes. Masters don’t get discovered.
Considering the audience, what’s a little more fakery. No diff than fake Bling they all display.
More importantly, is how long will the MSM be able to keep up the giddy support?
Wasnt Whitney Houston’s moving rendition of The Anthem at the SB pre-recorded too?
It’s not that big of a deal.
UK paper may have meant below 0 degrees C.
As I remember, that was another girl's voice that was used.
The first of a long list of “fakes” in this administration......
Gotta love it.
The Milli Vanilli Administration! How do you know he’s lip-synching? His mouth is moving. It sounds great, but you’ve got the sneaking suspicion that it’s not real.
The 30’s had the TVA, we’ve got the MVA.
oh but the military band could play in the cold..and all marching bands....but not these performers..???
Yup, it was another little girl’s voice.
Okay, so maybe it’s more like Ashley Simpson on Saturday Night Live. I can believe that, I mean I was suffering from massive acid reflux on inauguration day :-)
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Ashley sez they tried to play live, but the drummer pressed the wrong button! |
I criticize the event organizers, your federal government, who didn't consider that cold weather on January 20th might be a possibility and didn't arrange to have the performance area heated.
As long as it was the same musicians who actually recorded the music, then there's no foul.
Would you rather have a great-sounding performance that was recorded, or a "legit" performance in the cold with out-of-tune instruments?
Milli Vanilli this is not.
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