Inauguration - finally

[sulkyblue]

I finally got around to watching the inauguration ceremony tonight, my Sky box in a fit of right-wing ness refused to record it on Tuesday and I had to wait for it to turn up on iplayer

Comments

[johnckirk]

I haven't seen the inauguration; I heard a bit of it in the background, and realised that it was the first time I'd actually heard Obama's voice, so I probably ought to be paying a bit more attention to world affairs.

As for the poem, you might like this comic strip:
http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp01202009.shtml
("It was like listening to William Shatner recite who begat whom out of the Old Testament!")

[sammoore]

For years at primary school I wondered what what a 'dance settee' was.

You know, as in "I am the Lord of the Dance Settee"...

S

[sarahinthepark]

In fact Simple Gifts has been used several times, the one that made it famous in the first place is Aaron Copland, where it's used as part of an 'Americana' sound. Copland used it as part of a ballet score, called Appalachian Spring. And he won a Pulitzer for the score.

Now if someone can tell me how to pronounce Appalachian I'll be all set on the obscure American folk music knowledge.

[sulkyblue]

*I* pronounce it Apple-ay-shun. Whether that's right or not I'm not sure.

In all my imaginings never did I predict an outbreak of a discusion on American folk music on my blog!

[terpsichore1980]

We have been watching the final series of the West Wing. I have been getting confused between what has happened in real life and what happened in the West Wing.

Mind you, I may be easily confused, it really confused me when the BBC commentator announced they were going to sing the US national anthem, then they sang something to the tune of "God Save the Queen".

[sulkyblue]

I watched that in the depths of the Bush years and found it extremely depressing. Any day that you can muddle up the West Wing with real life is a very very good day imho.