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Inaugural Quartet Faked It

Yo-Yo Ma's performance was pre-recorded.

“Air and Simple Gifts,” the lofty arrangement played by the quartet at the inauguration, was far from simple. In fact, the music performed by Itzhak Perlman, Yo-Yo Ma and their colleagues had been pre-recorded two days before. The musicians did really play their instruments just before President Obama took the stage, but the music blasting over loud speakers was something else.

Read it at the New York Times

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