The TCHS band took some time out to watch Barack Obama’s inauguration speech yesterday. This is unrelated to band except for the fact that prior to the speech, there was one of the most amazingly beautiful pieces of music I have ever heard. It was arrranged especially for the occasion by John Williams, composer of fantastic movie soundtracks for “Star Wars”, “Indiana Jones”, “Jaws”, the “Olympic Theme”, “Harry Potter”, and almost any other recognizeable movie music you can think of. It featured a quartet of cello (Yo-Yo Ma), violin (Itzhak Perlman), clarinet (Anthony McGill), and piano (Gabriela Montero). It was incredible. I would normally put something like this in my director’s blog, but it was so good I wanted everyone to see it.

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