In an inauguration appropriately punctuated by emotion, John Williams' arrangement of Air and Simple Gifts was an exquisite homage to the playful hope of Copland's Appalachian Spring. The theme itself can be traced back to a the Shacker song Simple Gifts. This, can be regarded as a hymn to the basic values that our new president, Barack Hussein Obama, has been advocating from the outset of his campaign and stressed in his inaugural address. Hope is audacious after years of straying from those values, but this musical theme too reminded us that those values are at the foundation of our culture and that we were once living by them.
After the Audacity of Hope there comes the Continuity of Hope.
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