Venezuelan pianist to play at Obama’s inauguration

[EFerrari]

Source: Associated Press

Venezuelan pianist to play at Obama’s inauguration
By Associated Press
Tuesday, January 13, 2009 - Added 4h ago

CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuelan pianist Gabriela Montero said she is starting to feel the adrenaline as she rehearses for President-elect Barack Obama’s inauguration next week.

Montero is preparing to perform a special tribute composed by John Williams at the Jan. 20 inauguration, along with cellist Yo-Yo Ma, violinist Itzhak Perlman and clarinetist Anthony McGill.

"As the date approaches, I’ll be more and more into this rain of adrenaline," Montero told The Associated Press in a phone interview Monday from her home in the outskirts of Boston.

"I’m very excited to be part of this great day," Montero said. "It’s going to be a great moment for the entire world."

Read more: http://www.bostonherald.com/entertainment/arts_culture/view.bg?articleid=1145049&srvc=rss

[Critters2]

1. Damn! This is what I get for not practicing more!

My rendition of The Surprise Symphony from "Classical Piano for Adult Beginners, book 2" is almost ready for public performance!

[EFerrari]

2. I could furnish "Brown Eyed Girl" on my son's bass or

Au claire de lune on violin. But, no, they didn't call me. :)

[madrchsod]

3. a "venezuelan" ? how did she get past homeland security?...lol

it`s going to be a one of the greatest performances of their lifetime.... i hope it`s televised.

[EFerrari]

5. Lol! I hear they're using women now!

:)

[JDPriestly]

7. Is this the performance?

The Wall Street Journal reports that a high-profile event of the "people's inauguration" will be aired exclusively on HBO.

The premium cable channel has signed a deal with the Presidential Inaugural Committee hbo.jpgto televise 90-minutes commercial-free from the "Opening Celebration" of Barack Obama's inauguration. The event takes place at the Lincoln Memorial on Sunday, Jan. 18. Both Obama and Vice President-elect Joe Biden plan to attend. (The actual inauguration is two days later, on Jan. 20.)

HBO will make the celebration available on an open signal, meaning everyone with cable or satellite service can watch it for free, whether or not they subscribe to HBO.

Still, notes one media expert, Jere Hester of City University of New York's Graduate School of Journalism, this means that about 20 million U.S. households -- those without cable or satellite TV -- will be left out. That's about 15 percent of all households with televisions.

http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2009/01/exclusively-on-hbo-one-big-ina.html

[madrchsod]

8. great..i canceled hbo...never mind..i should read first.

[Broadslidin]

4. Thank You Venezuelan Gabriela Montero for your participation in this "Exorcism"....!

And may the salubrious spirit of President Hugo Chavez*
also participate in my nation's moral rebirth.

*An excellent example of a courageous person
who somehow survived the Lucifugous cheney:mad:bush clique.

[ooglymoogly]

6. ya get 10 points for using Lucifugous

in a sentence.

[Schema Thing]

9. How many pianist is that?