No fan-fare entrance music for PE-Obama. Boo!
I know having entrance music is not something we do with our President-elects, but for some reason I think the entrance of Obama and his family is different. When Obama comes out on stage alone or with his beautiful family, I just hear music. I hear patriotic sounding music. Nationalistic sounding music. Strong American music!
I am aware soon PE-Obama will be coming in to “Hail to the Chief” and it will not happen until Tuesday afternoon, but all the same, I hear music when he makes an entrance at this stage of his public appearances before large crowds.
In my musical world I thought it criminal there was no entrance music at Chicago’s Grant Park or at the Lincoln Memorial Sunday afternoon neither for PE-Obama’s entrance nor exit. At the Lincoln Memorial, all those steeps the PE-President, the PE-Vice President and their wives had to come down without even a drum roll. To me it just seems vulgar not to have some music for such occasions and I do not mean soul music. I mean something like “God Bless America” or the likes. In my opinion, not having music for him is like the continued use of calling him by his first name after he becomes President; like not humanizing him into his new station in life; like denying him a personality. Yes, even calling him “Boy”.
I am mindful when Pres. Clinton made his entrance one night the music was Copeland’s “Fan-Fare for the Common Man”. I think it was his Inauguration night. Not sure, but the music was there. It is not as if a musical director does not know what to do because, to my great delight, it was done Saturday when PE-Obama came out on stage during his train stop in Baltimore, Md. The musical director did his thing. The music was there. The appropriate fan-fare music was there. The music director used music to dignify the occasion. It was so moving. I cried.
Fighting for the dignity of my Ancestors,
God bless Bill Gates, WPFW, C-Span and the spirits of the unborn for the help,
BB
I am aware soon PE-Obama will be coming in to “Hail to the Chief” and it will not happen until Tuesday afternoon, but all the same, I hear music when he makes an entrance at this stage of his public appearances before large crowds.
In my musical world I thought it criminal there was no entrance music at Chicago’s Grant Park or at the Lincoln Memorial Sunday afternoon neither for PE-Obama’s entrance nor exit. At the Lincoln Memorial, all those steeps the PE-President, the PE-Vice President and their wives had to come down without even a drum roll. To me it just seems vulgar not to have some music for such occasions and I do not mean soul music. I mean something like “God Bless America” or the likes. In my opinion, not having music for him is like the continued use of calling him by his first name after he becomes President; like not humanizing him into his new station in life; like denying him a personality. Yes, even calling him “Boy”.
I am mindful when Pres. Clinton made his entrance one night the music was Copeland’s “Fan-Fare for the Common Man”. I think it was his Inauguration night. Not sure, but the music was there. It is not as if a musical director does not know what to do because, to my great delight, it was done Saturday when PE-Obama came out on stage during his train stop in Baltimore, Md. The musical director did his thing. The music was there. The appropriate fan-fare music was there. The music director used music to dignify the occasion. It was so moving. I cried.
Fighting for the dignity of my Ancestors,
God bless Bill Gates, WPFW, C-Span and the spirits of the unborn for the help,
BB
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