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Filed in Composition, History, Noteworthy, Performance, Thought for the Day, Violin on January 21, 2009 at 11:23 pm

Yeah, yeah, I bet EVERYBODY’s blogged this one… But I just gotta get on that bandwagon, too!
Of course, I’m talking about John Williams‘ Air and Simple Gifts composed for and performed at Obama’s inaguration yesterday. The musicians? The venerable  Anthony McGill  on clarinet, Itzhak Perlman on violin, Yo-Yo Ma on cello (who was also asked by the inauguration committee to organize [...]