"No one’s trying to fool anybody. This isn’t a matter of Milli Vanilli,” she [Carole Florman, a spokeswoman for the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies] added, referring to the pop band, stripped of a 1989 Grammy because of its lip-synching, that became synonymous with the practice."Really, no one's trying to fool anybody there Carole? I didn't watch this live, but I don't imagine they made some sort of announcement that the music was 'pre-recorded.' So it turns out that that fancy carbon cello was just for show. How many times do you think Milli Vanilli and Yo-Yo Ma get discussed in the same context? I LOVE IT!!!!
In other news, LOST premiered two nights ago. I was totally on fire (although not from a flaming arrow) in my predictions: 1) I called, almost down to the exact dialogue, that Daniel Farraday would that the camp wasn't gone, but that "it hadn't been built yet;" 2) I also called Ana-Lucia pulling Hugo over...totally called it! And I absolutely loved the woman in the cloak working on physics problems on a chalkboard with the pendulum swinging in the background.
I find that this show is completely engaging, and its more esoteric aspects really appeal to me. The fact that time travel is an integral aspect of the show now, which has been foreshadowed from the very first episode, is pretty good. Now that the flash forwards started to appear right at the mid-point of the show, I'm in awe of these writers -- they are fantastic.**
I'm going to see a Haydn opera tomorrow night (hand to God!), and then hopefully TW & I will be seeing the Underworld prequel on Saturday -- TW just loves a good vampire story...
*This was my favorite line from tonight's episode of Grey's Anatomy. The whole broken penis story line, coupled with the whole Izzy sleeping the Denny thing, has pretty much illustrated that Grey's Anatomy has jumped-the-shark, so to speak, or in modern parlance, moved-the-island.
**I'm a sucker for palindromes (See the Act III interludes music from Lulu!).
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"Ms. Florman said that the use of a recording was not disclosed beforehand but that the NBC producers handling the television pool were told of its likelihood the day before.
The network said it sent a note to pool members saying that the use of recordings in the musical numbers was possible. Inaugural musical performances are routinely recorded ahead of time for just such an eventuality, Ms. Florman said. The Marine Band and choruses, which performed throughout the ceremony, did not use a recording, she said."
Seems like wind more than cold was the real issue. With winds of 13 mph and gusts up to 28mph, hiss would have been a real problem. And you can't hook up a cello to an amp like an electric guitar.
And a carbon cello wasn't used (see photo at top of the article and statement at the end). I actually like the way carbon instruments look. Was at a charity concert where they had a carbon viola for auction. Something Darth Vader should be playing.
1) Did those pool reporters actually report that there was a possibility of pre-recorded music? no...
2) You can amplify a cello: you just hook the microphone right up inside the bridge. Also, how much wind could there possibly be up there behind all the bullet-proof glass?
3) How do we know that that picture is the real deal? It was cold and windy, why did he end up using the 300+ year old cello to begin with?
Wonder if the writers of Grey's were thinking like this when they wrote the line:
"China is called Zhōngguó (also Romanized as Chung-kuo or Jhongguo) in Mandarin Chinese. The first character zhōng (中) means "central" or "middle," while guó (国/國) means "kingdom". The term can be literally translated into English as "Middle Kingdom" or "Central Kingdom." [1]"
Blame the producers (people like Kenny who don't care), not Florman or Ma. Didn't seem like they were trying to hide anything (unlike Milli Vanilli who denied it after confronted initially).
There was plenty of wind. I heard the feed live. You could hear it during the whole thing.
If you think that picture is doctored, you need to move to Area 51. You are reading too many conspiracy stories. While he might not have been using the $2M cello (since I couldn't tell by looking at a picture), it certainly wasn't the carbon one since I was watching on 4 different feeds at the same time. Unless you think that it was all a hoax.
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