::INAUGURATION MUSIC 2009/01/20 PRESIDENT OBAMA 'Air and Simple Gifts'::

if the United States had an opening theme..

No, YO yo mama

simple gifts is the shit

heh yeah

This is a faked for TV moment. They were motioning to the recording. World's best musicians? Can't play in the cold? Out of tune instruments? What a sham, and a tragic loss of a potentially heroic moment in American history, sacrificed to the conveniences of TV media. This country can put a man on the moon but we can't figure a way to enable these players to play for real? How terrible. I don't buy any of it! A sham!

yeah, it was actually recorded beforehand.
But really, it was way too cold for any sord of instument to sound good.

clarinet not saxophone :3

and your point is? they still played the piece

I have nothing against it. makes. the point is they actually didn't play it live during the inauguration.

If they would have attempted to play it the cords could have broken on the instruments and the piano would have fallen out of tune.