{"id":2100,"date":"2008-12-17T20:43:40","date_gmt":"2008-12-18T02:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2008\/12\/17\/gabriela-montero\/"},"modified":"2008-12-17T20:43:40","modified_gmt":"2008-12-18T02:43:40","slug":"gabriela-montero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/17\/gabriela-montero\/","title":{"rendered":"Gabriela Montero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The bad news is that Rick Warren, author of <em>The Purpose-Driven Life<\/em>, will be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prospect.org\/csnc\/blogs\/ezraklein_archive?month=12&amp;year=2008&amp;base_name=the_purposedriven_preacher\">giving the invocation<\/a> at Obama&#8217;s inauguration.  A terrible choice; reaching out to evangelicals is fine, but honoring bigoted homophobes is a bad strategy.<\/p>\n<p>The good news is that pianist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gabrielamontero.com\/\">Gabriela Montero<\/a> will be <a href=\"http:\/\/thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com\/2008\/12\/17\/aretha-franklin-to-participate-in-inaugural-ceremony\/\">performing<\/a> at the inauguration!  (Along with some other jokers: Aretha Franklin, Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman, and Anthony McGill.)  Hopefully this prestigious venue will bring an incredibly talented performer to much-deserved wider recognition.<\/p>\n<p>If you tend not to click on YouTube clips of musicians, you might want to make an exception this time.  Here is Montero at a concert in Germany.  She asks the audience to suggest a German song for her &#8212; &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Wiy0Tj8CFV0\">Mer losse de Dom in K\u00f6lle<\/a>,&#8221; if commenters are to be believed &#8212; and gets them to sing it.  She catches the tune (which apparently she&#8217;s never heard before), and starts improvising based on it.  (There&#8217;s not nearly enough improvisation in modern classical music, in my jazz-inflected opinion.) It&#8217;s a throwaway, but quite joyous and beautiful.  And most of all, fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bad news is that Rick Warren, author of The Purpose-Driven Life, will be giving the invocation at Obama&#8217;s inauguration. A terrible choice; reaching out to evangelicals is fine, but honoring bigoted homophobes is a bad strategy. The good news is that pianist Gabriela Montero will be performing at the inauguration! (Along with some other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}