{"id":151,"date":"2009-01-26T03:41:18","date_gmt":"2009-01-26T08:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scripts.mit.edu\/~zong\/wpress\/?p=151"},"modified":"2010-10-20T18:18:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-20T23:18:00","slug":"fake-inaugural-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/?p=151","title":{"rendered":"fake inaugural performance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Didn’t know what the big deal was so I took a listen<\/a> to this “Air and Simple Gifts” piece. So not only was it performed to recording, the piece itself is a cheap knockoff, quoting almost verbatim Copland’s use of a pre-existing shaker melody (“Simple Gifts”) down to instrumentation, plus some other less than appealing thematic fluff and unoriginal variations thereof.<\/p>\n

Yo-Yo Ma told NPR’s All Things Considered that the piano keys had been decoupled from the hammers, and the bows of the stringed instruments had been soaped to silence them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So much trouble for a … meh … piece. I’m disappointed. This isn’t even as good as the 40’s movie music “At Last”<\/a> performed at the Ball in the ‘Hood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Didn’t know what the big deal was so I took a listen to this “Air and Simple Gifts” piece. So not only was it performed to recording, the piece itself is a cheap knockoff, quoting almost verbatim Copland’s use of a pre-existing shaker melody (“Simple Gifts”) down to instrumentation, plus some other less than appealing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1819,290,287,284,286,283,285,288,282],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-air","tag-copland","tag-gifts","tag-piano-keys","tag-recording","tag-simple-gifts","tag-stringed-instruments","tag-unoriginal","tag-yo-yo-ma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}