Condoleezza Rice gives piano recital for the Queen
Condoleezza Rice, the US Secretary of State, gave a piano recital for the Queen yesterday during her visit to Buckingham Palace.
Dr Rice performed music by Johannes Brahms accompanied on violin by Louise Shackleton, the wife of David Miliband, the Foreign Secretary. Three members of the London Symphony Orchestra offered backing to the high-profile duo.
Afterwards, the Queen presented Dr Rice with a recording of the performance as a gift.
America’s most senior diplomat is a classically trained pianist who had expressed a wish to play at the palace. She was making her final trip to Britain before President-elect Barack Obama takes office next month.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article5272739.ece A video of this performance is available for viewing on this website and another artile on this topic with more pictures is below:
www.nytimes.com/2006/04/09/arts/music/09tomm.html?ex=1302235200&en=9b7986206bf57c24&ei=508...
This article expresses the importance of music within the political realm. Condaoleezza Rice utilizes a concert as a means for keeping peaceful tithes. This can be viewed as a gift or as a communication expressing terms beyond verbal or written languages. This exists because of music's intense ability to affect a person's mood. Aristotle and the doctrine of ethos stated this true fact years ago. This power has been recognized by numerous officials since that time causing priests and dictators to ban certain "devilish" music. (Oh dear not Parallel Octaves!) Their grand fear was that music would be utilized as a tool to retaliate against the powerful magistrates. Indeed, music can summon strength in individuals to surge into battle or heal a deep wound. On the opposite side of the spectrum, music has the innate capability to calm an individual into a peaceful aura. This atmosphere was probably created with the concert by Rice as well as excitement.
This performance was given as a gift to honor the relationship that the U.S., represented by Rice, has with England, represented by the Queen. Music has often been used as gifts to show the appreciation of a person’s visit and concern. Rice had a previous experience with this having been given the small guitar on one of her visits to Equador, even though it might have been confiscated. Even if music is not given as a gift, it often accompanies political gatherings such as the Inaugural presented today or any of their previous campaigning outings. Many large business meetings hire musicians to play in the back ground, as I did with my high school orchestra on a few occasions. On a side noted, even NBC’s tune (M6) is known by almost all (especially useful for aural skills). One could therefore gather from this evidence that there is a very heavy tie between politics and music as both encompass our culture.
Condoleezza Rice, the US Secretary of State, gave a piano recital for the Queen yesterday during her visit to Buckingham Palace.
Dr Rice performed music by Johannes Brahms accompanied on violin by Louise Shackleton, the wife of David Miliband, the Foreign Secretary. Three members of the London Symphony Orchestra offered backing to the high-profile duo.
Afterwards, the Queen presented Dr Rice with a recording of the performance as a gift.
America’s most senior diplomat is a classically trained pianist who had expressed a wish to play at the palace. She was making her final trip to Britain before President-elect Barack Obama takes office next month.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article5272739.ece A video of this performance is available for viewing on this website and another artile on this topic with more pictures is below:
www.nytimes.com/2006/04/09/arts/music/09tomm.html?ex=1302235200&en=9b7986206bf57c24&ei=508...
This article expresses the importance of music within the political realm. Condaoleezza Rice utilizes a concert as a means for keeping peaceful tithes. This can be viewed as a gift or as a communication expressing terms beyond verbal or written languages. This exists because of music's intense ability to affect a person's mood. Aristotle and the doctrine of ethos stated this true fact years ago. This power has been recognized by numerous officials since that time causing priests and dictators to ban certain "devilish" music. (Oh dear not Parallel Octaves!) Their grand fear was that music would be utilized as a tool to retaliate against the powerful magistrates. Indeed, music can summon strength in individuals to surge into battle or heal a deep wound. On the opposite side of the spectrum, music has the innate capability to calm an individual into a peaceful aura. This atmosphere was probably created with the concert by Rice as well as excitement.
This performance was given as a gift to honor the relationship that the U.S., represented by Rice, has with England, represented by the Queen. Music has often been used as gifts to show the appreciation of a person’s visit and concern. Rice had a previous experience with this having been given the small guitar on one of her visits to Equador, even though it might have been confiscated. Even if music is not given as a gift, it often accompanies political gatherings such as the Inaugural presented today or any of their previous campaigning outings. Many large business meetings hire musicians to play in the back ground, as I did with my high school orchestra on a few occasions. On a side noted, even NBC’s tune (M6) is known by almost all (especially useful for aural skills). One could therefore gather from this evidence that there is a very heavy tie between politics and music as both encompass our culture.
LOL! You had to bring Aural skills into your article! I agree though that NBC is quite brillant for having the little tune in order to help people remember it. It's as famous as the trumpet fanfare at the end of most Fox productions.(I wonder how much people get paid everytime it plays) Any way, This is a really interesting article and I'm happy that we are able to share music with other countries politically.
ReplyDeleteI had no idea that Condoleeza Rice played piano. I wonder if her training has a musician has helped her to be a diplomat (i.e., improved her listening skills, taught her the necessity of working together). It was also interesting to read about the church bombing in Alabama when she was a little girl that prompted a conservatory to open its doors to black students. The interaction between music and politics is not just in the music itself, but also in the way its made.
ReplyDeleteI also had no idea that Condoleeza Rice played the piano. This was a great find Rose. I have never noticed the connection between music and society, but this blog is a great example that it does exist.
ReplyDeleteRose... only you could make me sing Do- La- Fa while sitting at my computer and thinking way back to last year when we were talking about the Ancient Greeks. I had no idea that Condoleeza Rice was musical in any way so this log really surprized me. I guess we could try a new way of having conferences and meetings between the leaders of the different countries: do everything using music. That way people would really have to think about it and use all of those rules we learned in theory to get everything just right so people would be pleased and make alliances. Ok... so maybe not that far, but it might work. Your blog is a shining example of economy of words... I wish I could do it as well as you can. Have a lovely day!
ReplyDeleteMusic and peaceful auras, sounds great. I wasn't aware that Rice played the piano but I think it's incredible that she used her talents in such a way. I wish music played as large a role in our society as Ethos suggests it should (well, perhaps not quite as large given the ramifications of someone using the power in a negative manner).
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