What a day...January 20, 2009. Barack Obama is now the President of the United States. 'Nuf ced.
I was thrilled to hear three people at the inauguration who I either have interviewed on the radio or introduced at concerts: violinist Itzhak Perlman, pianist Gabriela Montero, and cellist Yo-Yo Ma, as they played an arrangement of Simple Gifts before Obama took the oath of office. Their playing moved me to tears...it was so beautiful.
(LATE FLASH on 1/23...it was a recording made 2 days earlier that we heard. The cold weather would've wreaked havoc on the instruments.) See this link:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/01/22/famed-quartet-played-recordings-tunes-inauguration/
Let us hope that this new administration will help get the country's economic engine going again, and as Obama said, it takes all of us to make it happen.
Pacem.
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