Yo-Yo Ma, Perlman, and Milli Vanilli

That's excellent! This means there are nice clean studio recordings of this out there. It's only a matter of time before they're mine! Bwahahaha! I hope they took the same precautions with Sunday's concert performances.

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I don't follow, Goth.

How are the music and the president fake?

Or merely to the fact that he's a Democrat?

I was wondering if that was the case - it was too cold for them to have their good instruments outside, and I can't even imagine trying to play in the cold.

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There was an article about Yo Yo Ma's plan to play a carbon fiber cello, due to the cold.

I was surprised to see a regular cello. I guess it wasn't as cold as they thought it was going to be. Even if the broadcast used a pre-recording, they were apparently playing live as well.

"It was too cold for the cello, violin and Anthony McGill's clarinet to hold true pitch, according to Carole Florman, a spokeswoman for the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies, and Gabriela Montero's piano could not hold its tune for more than two hours under those conditions."

"This isn't Milli Vanilli," Florman said, with an allusion to the pop group once stripped of a Grammy Award for lip-syncing. "They had to perform in such cold weather, the instruments couldn't possibly be in tune. They were able to play in sync with the tape. It's not unusual."

Yo-Yo Ma or Memorex? Both, actually

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I was wondering if the broadcast used a recording as well. With all the visible wind, no interference was picked up on the microphones. Doesn't matter. They were still playing live anyway.

Hey, if it's good enough for Britney...

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