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MUSIC PRESENTED AT THE WHITE HOUSE FROM PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMAThese performances are all available on YOUTUBE
MUSIC AND ARTS
Performances at the White House
Memphis Soul
President Obama Hosts In Performance at the White House: Memphis Soul
Soulsville, USA: The History of Memphis Soul Student Workshop
Backstage at the White House: Memphis Soul
Alabama Shakes, Steve Cropper, and Booker T. Jones: "Born Under A Bad Sign"
Eddie Floyd: "Knock On Wood"
Cyndi Lauper and Charlie Musslewhite: "Try a Little Tenderness"
Joshua Ledet: "When A Man Loves A Woman"
Mavis Staples: "I'll Take You There"
Queen Latifah: "I Can't Stand the Rain"
Sam Moore: "When Something Is Wrong With My Baby"
Justin Timberlake and Steve Cropper: " Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay"
William Bell: "You Don't Miss Your Water"
Booker T. Jones & Ensemble: Grand Finale "In The Midnight Hour"
Sam Moore and Joshua Ledet: "Soul Man"
Gershwin Prize for Burt Bacharach
Behind the Scenes as Burt Bacharach and Hal David receive the Gershwin Award
Arturo Sandoval and Stevie Wonder: Make It Easy on Yourself
Burt Bacharach: "What the World Needs Now Is Love"
Diana Krall: "The Look of Love"
Lyle Lovett: "Always Something There to Remind Me"
Michael Feinstein: "Close to You"
Mike Myers: Whats New Pussy Cat
Rumer: A House is Not a Home
Sheléa and Arturo Sandoval: "Anyone Who Had a Heart"
Sheryl Crow & Lyle Lovett: "Ill Never Fall In Love Again"
Stevie Wonder: Alfie
Sheryl Crow: "Walk On By"
Red, White, & Blues
B.B. King & Ensemble: "Let the Good Times Roll"
Gary Clark, Jr.: "Catfish Blues"
Shamika Copeland & Gary Clark, Jr.: "Beat Up Old Guitar"
Buddy Guy and Jeff Beck: "Let Me Love You"
Buddy Guy, Mick Jagger, Gary Clark Jr., & Jeff Beck: "Five Long Years"
Mick Jagger & Jeff Beck: "Commit a Crime"
Keb' Mo' -- "Henry"
Mick Jagger: "Miss You"
Mick Jagger: "I Can't Turn You Loose"
Susan Tedeschi, Derek Trucks, & Warren Haynes: "Id Rather Go Blind"
Trombone Shorty: "St. James Infirmary"
Buddy Guy & Ensemble: "Sweet Home Chicago"
President Obama Welcomes Guests to "In Performance in the White House: Red, White and Blues"
Behind the Scenes: Red, White and Blues
Backstage at the White House: Tedeschi & Trucks
Backstage at the White House: Warren Haynes
Backstage at The White House: Keb Mo
President Obama Sings "Sweet Home Chicago"
President Obama Welcomes Guests to "In Performance at the White House: Country Music"
Behind The Scenes: In Performance at The White House: Country Music
President Obama Celebrates Country Music
Alison Krauss: "When You Say Nothing at All"
Dierks Bentley & Lauren Alaina: "Always on My Mind"
Darius Rucker: "I Got Nothing"
Dierks Bentley: "Home"
James Taylor: "Riding on a Railroad"
James Taylor: "Wichita Lineman"
Kris Kristofferson: "Me & Bobby McGee"
Lauren Alaina: "Coal Miner's Daughter"
Lyle Lovett: "Cowboy Man"
Arnold McCuller & Lyle Lovett: "Funny How Time Slips Away"
Mickey: "Crazy"
Darius Rucker & Kris Kristofferson: "Pancho & Lefty"
The Band Perry: "I Will Always Love You"
The Band Perry: "If I Die Young"
he Motown Sound
Amber Riley
Natasha Bedingfield
Gloriana
John Legend
Mark Salling
Jordin Sparks
Mens' Medley
Nick Jonas
Seal
Sheryl Crow
Smokey Robinson & Sheryl Crow
Stevie Wonder
Behind the Scenes at "In Performance at the White House: The Motown Sound"
The Sound of Young America: The History of Motown
Raw Video: The Four Tops & The Temptations Surprise White House Tours
Music of The Civil Rights Movement
Yolanda Adams Performs at the White House
Smokey Robinson & Jennifer Hudson Perform at the White House
John Mellencamp Performs at the White House
Natalie Cole Performs at the White House
Joan Baez Performs at the White House
Jennifer Hudson Performs at the White House
Yolanda Adams Performs at the White House
The Freedom Singers Perform at the White House
Smokey Robinson Performs at the White House
The Blind Boys of Alabama Perform at the White House
Music That Inspired the Movement Student Workshop
An Evening of Classical Music
President Obama Opens White House Evening of Classical Music
Sharon Isbin Performs at the White House
Awadagin Pratt Performs at the White House
Alisa Weilerstein Performs at the White House
Alisa Weilerstein and Sujari Britt Perform at the White House
Alisa Weilerstein and Jason Yoder Perform at the White House
Joshua Bell and Awadagin Pratt Perform at the White House
Joshua Bell and Sharon Isbin Perform at the White House
Joshua Bell, Awadagin Pratt, and Alisa Weilerstein Perform at the White House
An Evening of Music, Poetry, and Spoken Word
The President and First Lady Open White House Poetry Jam
Mayda del Valle at the White House Poetry Jam
James Earl Jones Performs Shakespeare at the White House Poetry Jam
Michael Chabon & Ayelet Waldman Speak at the White House Poetry Jam
Esperanza Spalding Performs at the White House Poetry Jam
Jamaica Osorio Performs "Kumulipo" at the White House Poetry Jam
Joshua Bennett Performs at the White House Poetry Jam
Lin-Manuel Miranda Performs at the White House Poetry Jam
A Broadway Celebration
Assata Alston: "Gimme Gimme"
Audra McDonald: "Happiness is a Thing Called Joe"
Audra McDonald: "Can't Stop Talking About Him"
Brian d'Arcy James: "Blue Skies"
Chad Kimball: "Memphis Lives in Me
Elaine Stritch: "Broadway Baby"
Idina Menzel & Marvin Hamlisch: "What I Did For Love"
Idina Menzel: "Defying Gravity"
Karen Olivo & Dancers: "America"
Nathan Lane & Brian d'Arcy James: "Free"
Tonya Pinkins: "Gonna Pass Me a Law"
Grand Finale - "You Can't Stop the Beat"
Gershwin Prize for Stevie Wonder
India Arie: "Summer Soft"
Stevie Wonder: "Sir Duke"
Stevie Wonder: "Signed, Sealed, Delivered"
Paul Simon: "If It's Magic"
Mary Mary: "Higher Ground"
Martina McBride: "You and I"
Tony Bennett
Esperanza Spalding: "Overjoyed"
Diana Krall: "Blame It on the Sun"
Anita Johnson: "I Never Dreamed You'd Leave in Summer"
Fiesta Latina
Gloria Estefan, Sheila E., & Jose Feliciano: "No Llores"
Jose Feliciano
Los Lobos
Marc Anthony
Marc Anthony Encore
Thalia
Tito El Bambino
Sheila E. & Pete Escovedo
Gloria Estefan & Ensemble: "Mi Tierra"
RKP5637
(67,032 posts)mnhtnbb
(31,319 posts)The guy is a malignant narcissist. EVERYTHING has to be about him and focused on him. That doesn't happen when one is a member of an audience.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)This, exactly. He has to be the star of every show, the most fascinating thing in every room, the focus of everyone's attention ALL THE TIME!
Also, he is an uncultured boor - as well as a boring person - who does not have any interest in the arts, nor the attention span to actually sit through a concert, even a short one. He is such a vulgar, egocentric ignoramus. It's an embarrassment.
3catwoman3
(23,820 posts)...this coarse, crude, common, and crass clod.
Or, has his Russian handlers would say, nekulturny.
certainot
(9,090 posts)Demovictory9
(32,324 posts)groundloop
(11,488 posts)Last edited Mon Sep 2, 2019, 03:45 PM - Edit history (1)
Hey, Buddy Guy. I'm having a cookout, wanna' come play a few tunes for me? Oh, and while your at it could you maybe invite a few of your friends to come along also, maybe Eric for instance. And let's see if Dylan is available too. Thanks man, see ya' soon. Oh, what's that.... Mick and his boys want to stop in also. Sure, I'm sure we can fit them in.
tRump, on the other hand only cares about things which will bring him profit.
dem4decades
(11,244 posts)madinmaryland
(64,920 posts)groundloop
(11,488 posts)dem4decades
(11,244 posts)CaptYossarian
(6,448 posts)virgogal
(10,178 posts)was a POTUS requirement. I have been around since FDR and dont recall much about their music habits.
Ilsa
(61,675 posts)But some people in office like celebrating the diversity of talents in the USA, and like to show their appreciation for the arts as part of the American experience. It's not important to trump unless it's part of a "deal."
DinahMoeHum
(21,737 posts). . .and broke new ground.
kskiska
(27,041 posts)were Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians.
Wounded Bear
(58,440 posts)-Old Celtic proverb
Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)Grasswire2
(13,564 posts)Kid Berwyn
(14,651 posts)"I, too, have a dream-to show people in the out of the way places, some of whom are not only in small villages but in corners of New York City-something they cannot get from between the covers of books-some real paintings and prints and etchings and some real music."
Franklin Roosevelt to Hendrik Willem Van Loon, January 6, 1938
Art of the New Deal
virgogal
(10,178 posts)Larrybanal
(227 posts)you seem to like that.what is your problem with music...forget trump. he only cares about trump...nothing else
Lars39
(26,093 posts)dawg day
(7,947 posts)I'll have to get a snap of that.
Also I support my state historical society, and in the library are many volumes of county histories, because the WPA also -- get this-- paid historians to do these histories.
stuffmatters
(2,574 posts)One of the great tragedies from the Repugs(ALEC/Koch) campaign to destroy the USPS. Our national treasures were sold for pennies on the dollar to satisfy impossible demands on USPS. Absolutely obscene.
At least we, the American taxpayers, still own the WPA/FSA's collection of all the original negatives by artistic icons from Dorothea Lange to Gordon Parks. You used to be able to write the Smithsonian and get a print struck from any FSA negative for $20...the price may have gone up a little, but I think you still can order them.
murielm99
(30,657 posts)This "president" does not have a pet. He does not invite musicians to the White House. I think that shows a lack of character, taste and soul.
keithbvadu2
(36,369 posts)Trump does not have a live-in pet.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,483 posts)and shows them off in public regularly......
MarcA
(2,195 posts)make one a good Leader or Person.
murielm99
(30,657 posts)You are right. I would make a terrible President. At least I know this.
Last edited Mon Sep 2, 2019, 12:01 PM - Edit history (1)
A lyrical history of the American presidency and people, this is the story of a show that goes on. Elise Kirk traces the story of more than 200 years of musical performance in the White House to present the tale of the American process of music-makinghow music in a democracy has been absorbed, shaped, transformed, and perceived from the period of George Washington to early in the Donald J. Trump administration. Whether dramatic or abstract, vernacular or cultivated, music can mold the political process and shape a historic event in a manner like no other. Nancy Reagan once said, What but art can cause tears among strangers?
https://www.whitehousehistory.org/collections/music-in-the-white-house
nolabear
(41,915 posts)I might not go the cash but Im glad that book is out there.
bdamomma
(63,658 posts)looks interesting.
tenderfoot
(8,424 posts)Got it!
virgogal
(10,178 posts)lacking if thats what you took from my post. The topic is presidential love of the arts,especially music. That is something that most dont consider when choosing a president.
tenderfoot
(8,424 posts)character.
Have a miserable day.
virgogal
(10,178 posts)EarnestPutz
(2,087 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)American culture, or others.
demmiblue
(36,751 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,280 posts)curiosity and appreciation of something other than power.
irisblue
(32,829 posts)An active brain in fact. I do not think Mr. Trump has that.
But about FDR, you sentme looking...
https://www.whitehousehistory.org/the-roosevelts-as-entertainers
Snip- In 1936, she invited contralto Marian Anderson to sing at the mansionthree years before her landmark concert at the Lincoln Memorialwhile baritone Todd Duncan, who originated the role of Porgy in George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess, along with the Howard University glee club also found their talents welcome in the environs of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
Source-https://www.whitehousehistory.org/music-and-musical-performances-in-the-white-house-timeline
Snip-1940s
As the war in Europe cast its shadow over the capitals social life, White House entertaining diminished. But one event in particular stands out: "A Program of American Songs for American Soldiers," presented by Burl Ives, Wade Mainer and other folk, spiritual and ballad singers in 1941.
I can honestly understand why public music & arts were not a big part of depression & war era FDR White House .
yonder
(9,631 posts)Exactly right. Curiosity and inquisitiveness outside of ones immediate self-interest is one thing that makes us human, the lack of which is what I would expect from tRump, Inc.
volstork
(5,394 posts)associated with what some would term the "soul," or a deep connection to humanity, spirituality, and the things that are beyond our understanding. Oliver Sacks said, "Music needs no mediator; it pierces the heart directly."
IQ45 has no soul, he's just an ill-fitting suit.
Karadeniz
(22,283 posts)Iggo
(47,489 posts)Which is one of my main requirements for POTUS.
madinmaryland
(64,920 posts)but I assume they had enough culture to appreciate music and the arts
Control-Z
(15,681 posts)and most definitely appreciates!
The King of Prussia
(735 posts)But can you imagine Trump even trying it? I think Nixon, for all his faults, was a somewhat cultured man.[link:
|Kingofalldems
(38,361 posts)RandiFan1290
(6,206 posts)Turin_C3PO
(13,650 posts)Your mask slips daily.
ChubbyStar
(3,191 posts)Asking for a friend?
virgogal
(10,178 posts)ChubbyStar
(3,191 posts)Wearing a mask is so hard, I can't imagine an 85 year old trying to wear one. That is ridiculous!
virgogal
(10,178 posts)soldierant
(6,648 posts)The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted. Mark the music.
fit for treasons?
Stratagems?
Spoils?
Affections dark as Erebus?
Personally I think Shakespeare nailed him.
dawg day
(7,947 posts)Nothing about art or music-- just Trump.
The only art is the plastic surgery of Ivanka's face when she stiltedly recites her "wrap-up" of the G-20.
It's just amazing. How shallow are this person and family? If you had "billions" and lived in Manhattan, really, wouldn't you have brought your children up going to Broadway and the symphony and the Met? A poor kid going to a PS there would have tons more exposure to the arts and music than the Trumps do.
The Obamas, of course, aren't just curious, live-loving people. They're good attentive parents who wanted to expose their children (and the country's children) to our great culture. I remember Mr. Obama introducing a jam band by saying that there were some benefits to being president, and one is being able to call up BB King and Mick Jagger and ask them to come jam.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)they spend none of that on art or culture. No concerts, theatre, opera, museums, lectures, no books. How can you grow up living in the middle of Manhattan and not even be curious enough to attend any of the thousands of cultural events that go on every week in that city?
There are so many interesting things to do, see and hear. Most people, if they had the money and the free time would jump at the chance to experience what NYC has to offer culturally. But not the Trumps. This is why they will always be boorish and crass.
dawg day
(7,947 posts)Now he still golfs, but apparently she does nothing much up there in Maryland with her parents and son.
What a waste of wealth, power, and space.
redstatebluegirl
(12,264 posts)Maybe he has that portrait of him from Mar A Largo. He is devoid of any soul, no mind, no kindness.
SMC22307
(8,088 posts)What a contrast between, say, Teddy Roosevelt, or even Poppy Bush. There just doesn't seem to be any *life* at Dirty Don's White House. No kids playing under the desk. No dogs or kitties romping around. No playing in the snow. His predecessors were natural at it, unlike the star of shit reality show we're sucked into now.
redstatebluegirl
(12,264 posts)SMC22307
(8,088 posts)bronxiteforever
(9,287 posts)brush
(53,475 posts)won't spring for the real thing.
keithbvadu2
(36,369 posts)He could put up his phony Time magazine cover that graced his clubhouses.
sinkingfeeling
(51,279 posts)Demovictory9
(32,324 posts)neeksgeek
(1,214 posts)Trump strikes me as the sort who might own... a really nice turntable and record collection, lets say, but never actually plays any records for fear of damaging them or it. Or like owners of Leica cameras who dont photograph.
Not that I have a problem with people taking care of their stuff, you understand.
Ive just never gotten along well with people who only have things for status. Trump apparently sees no status symbolism in having a pet, or having live musical performances at the White House. Or in becoming better informed, for that matter. And status is the only reason hed do any of these things.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)Really?
treestar
(82,383 posts)that's why he has all that crass gold decor - he can't think of any other way to show his wealth off.
PatrickforO
(14,516 posts)the lack of music and arts is symptomatic of it.
Parallels Hitler in a way. He had strange ideas about art - thought he could micromanage it. But he was all straight angles, ponderous architecture and propaganda.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)erronis
(14,955 posts)The list goes on.
Now, is it that the (R) brand attracts shallow, non-empathetic, etc. people; or is it that the (R)'s are re-programmed to be robotic morons?
Not totally a rhetorical question.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)as the disease drags them lower and lower
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,280 posts)to get into a prestigious art school so he became a dictator instead. If Hitler had been a better artist maybe he wouldn't have tried to take over the world.
maddiemom
(5,106 posts)bronxiteforever
(9,287 posts)PatSeg
(46,804 posts)with his cable news watching and the voices in his head.
greblach
(256 posts)Heart doing a version of Stairway to Heaven with Obama and Led Zeppelin watching... [link:
|spanone
(135,636 posts)KY_EnviroGuy
(14,483 posts)Unbelievable A&R and wonderful musicianship.....
And, welcome to DU!......
yonder
(9,631 posts)It looked liked it was thoroughly enjoyed by everyone there - Jimmy Page especially, was hooked up and grooving.
And then you think of how the current WH occupant, might have responded. Some mouthing of unknown words with a couple of out-of-time head bobs.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)Damn!
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,280 posts)He doesn't host performers or go to performances - I've never heard of him attending concerts or plays - and I haven't even read any reports about what kind of music he likes. Apparently he doesn't like any. The only art he seems to like consists of paintings of himself that he buys with money from his "charities" and displays in his cheesy resorts. There was a report about a painting he had in his tacky Versailles-redecorated-by-Saddam- Hussein's-pimp apartment in NYC that he claimed was a Renoir, but he had it not because he liked Renoir but because having a Renoir was a sign of his wealth. But it was a forgery or a reproduction, and even after it was pointed out to him that the original was in a museum in Chicago, he continued to insist it was the real thing. https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/10/donald-trumps-fake-renoir Probably still does. But that's not art for art's sake, that's art for prestige's sake.
Love of the arts requires a soul. QED.
FakeNoose
(32,356 posts)True Blue American
(17,972 posts)Tanuki
(14,893 posts)"The construction of Trump Tower may have been Donald Trumps greatest achievement, but it was a disaster for the citys artistic legacy.
To build his skyscraper, Trump first had to knock down the Bonwit Teller building, a luxurious limestone building erected in 1929. The face of the building featured two huge Art Deco friezes that the Metropolitan Museum of Art wanted to preserve. The museum asked Trump to save the sculptures and donate them, and the mogul agreedas long as the cost of doing so wasnt too high.
But then, according to journalist Harry Hurt III in his book Lost Tycoon, Trump discovered that taking out the sculptures would delay demolition by two weeks. He wasnt willing to wait. On his orders, the demolition workers cut up the grillwork with acetylene torches, Hurt wrote. Then they jackhammered the friezes, dislodged them with crowbars, and pushed the remains inside the building, where they fell to the floor and shattered in a million pieces.
The art world was shocked. Architectural sculpture of this quality is rare and would have made definite sense in our collections, Ashton Hawkins, the vice president and secretary of the Mets board of trustees, told the New York Times. Robert Miller, a gallery owner who had agreed to assess the friezes, told the paper that the reliefs are as important as the sculptures on the Rockefeller building. Theyll never be made again.
The Times reported that Trump also lost a large bronze grillwork, measuring 25 feet in length, from the building that the museum had hoped to save.
Trumpposing as spokesman John Baron, one of the fake alter egos he used to speak to the press throughout his careertold the Times that he had the friezes appraised and found they were without artistic merit and werent worth the $32,000 he supposedly would have had to pay to remove them intact. Can you imagine the museum accepting them if they were not of artistic merit? Hawkins said in response."
xxqqqzme
(14,887 posts)https://secretsofmanhattan.wordpress.com/2017/08/16/the-bonwit-teller-building-how-donald-trump-destroyed-an-art-deco-treasure/
IcyPeas
(21,747 posts)JohnnyRingo
(18,581 posts)"I hate music" would be a telling response, but I'd expect him to lie. Hearing him fake his way through a fictional playlist would be amusing.
John Fante
(3,479 posts)turbinetree
(24,632 posts)from the copyright holders ..........................go figure...........................
handmade34
(22,755 posts)our art is what makes us human...
My humanities course was one of my favorites in college... I remember doing a paper on Guernica by Pablo Picasso.
A president who values the arts, and who subsequently provides funding in their proposed yearly budget, is important to me.
we know he's not human, if he wants to kill the environment and our planet. He has no soul.
highplainsdem
(48,731 posts)music at his private residences was a story a while back saying he played music outdoors really loud at Mar-a-Lago, specifically to annoy the neighbors, most of whom looked down on him.
And as far as the rally music goes, he seems to love using songs even after the artists tell him to stop because they don't want to be associated with him.
Wounded Bear
(58,440 posts)which seems to be a Repub trait in general.
The irony of him playing the Stones' "You Can't Always Get What You Want" at his rallies never dawned on his supporters.
fierywoman
(7,641 posts)that the audience was talking loudly during his performance. At one point he even commented on it.
Mendocino
(7,431 posts)madinmaryland
(64,920 posts)Sneederbunk
(14,208 posts)Demovictory9
(32,324 posts)reading or ANYTHING. does he appreciate flowers, trees, fine art, clouds, the rain ANYTHING
lindysalsagal
(20,444 posts)His brain does not respond to music.
UniteFightBack
(8,231 posts)Sorry no room for no text !
MFM008
(19,782 posts)Is like a mausoleum.
Cold. Empty.
Lifeless.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,280 posts)because all of them, even the bad ones, were actual humans.
FDR created the Federal Music Project, which, as part of the New Deal, employed thousands of musicians, composers and conductors to produce public concerts. The Eisenhowers were the first to bring Broadway musical theater to the White House. JFK hosted many classical concerts at the White House, probably at Jackie's urging since his tastes were more middlebrow, but he did enough for music to get a performing arts center named after him. Nixon preferred classical music and played the piano. Jimmy Carter hung out with the Allman Brothers and was a big fan of Southern rock. Bush I liked the Oak Ridge Boys and other country music. Bill Clinton played the saxophone. W. had an iPod containing country and classic rock. Obama's tastes in music are listed in the OP.
But Trump?
Nothing.
spanone
(135,636 posts)bdamomma
(63,658 posts)music and the arts be classified as that bad word now to "liberal" they hate the word and the concept of liberalism.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,280 posts)for years, not to mention PBS.
dalton99a
(81,073 posts)East Room celebration: Lionel Hampton, Shirley Caesar, Bobby Jones, James Brown, Blind Boys of Alabama, the Harlem Jazz Museum Artists, Regina Belle, Take 6, etc.
sammythecat
(3,568 posts)would exist in a "man" so full of voids.
Just last night I happened to see video of Joe Rogan interviewing Penn Jillette. Jillette had two "tours of duty" with Trump on "The Apprentice" I've never seen the show), so having spent a lot of time with this turd he had a pretty informed and interesting summation of this completely self-absorbed and uninteresting ignoramus. It's just a little over 7 minutes long and you might find it interesting enough to invest the time. I did. I'll give one tidbit from the end. In all the hours spent with Trump, Jillette never once saw him laugh sincerely. Not once, and I'll bet that doesn't surprise you at all. What an appalling creature this man is.
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cp
(6,543 posts)Couldn't live without them, or books.
Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)I can't go a day without music.
It is often said that math is the universal language, but I think it's music.
FailureToCommunicate
(13,989 posts)Thanks!
Politicub
(12,163 posts)It was such a different time. Even though Obama has been out of office for a couple of years, it seems like an eternity.
trusty elf
(7,349 posts)Are there pets of any type allowed in Trump's WH? Most people who enjoy music also like little (or large) furry critters.
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lutherj
(2,486 posts)
Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds,
Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils;
The motions of his spirit are dull as night
And his affections dark as Erebus:
Let no such man be trusted.
- William Shakespeare
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,280 posts)sandensea
(21,530 posts)demmiblue
(36,751 posts)A tip of the hat to my Irish roots:
bdamomma
(63,658 posts)he doesn't bother. He hates the arts, he's never attended a Kennedy Center Honors Programme, he's uncultured and a thug. Period.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,280 posts)which his "charities" purchase at inflated prices and display at his golf resorts. I'll bet if some composer wrote a piece of music and called it the "Trump Concerto" he'd go to that performance.
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usaf-vet
(6,094 posts)Is the only music that the greedy con man and his grifters listen for.
randr
(12,408 posts)I have suspected that the man can't read beyond a remedial level
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,280 posts)TeamPooka
(24,156 posts)"In June 2001, President Bush proclaimed the month of June, Black Music Month, encouraging all Americans to learn more about the contributions of black artists to America's musical heritage and to celebrate their remarkable role in shaping our history and culture. Performers Lionel Hampton, Shirley Caesar, Bobby Jones, James Brown, the Blind Boys of Alabama, and the Harlem Jazz Museum Artists attended the ceremony in the East Room.
During their first year in the White House, President and Mrs. Obama hosted a celebration of the music of Stevie Wonder, and welcomed Festiva Latina. Both events were part of the PBS series In Performance at the White House."
Much more at link...
https://www.whitehousehistory.org/music-and-musical-performances-in-the-white-house-timeline
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,483 posts)* Daily pin the tail on the Democrat,
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* Monthly best message for back of Melania's wind breakers,
* Award for closest guess of the magic numbers for that weird black leather suitcase,
* A weekly piñata in basement of Hillary, Pelosi, or Schumer, and
* Monthly bonus for most creative fake gold spray paint usage in the building.
KY.........
(enough smart-ass for one Labor Day)......
CatMor
(6,212 posts)is the tacky Melania nude photos. They think that garbage is cutting edge art. Melania must think so too.
IcyPeas
(21,747 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,280 posts)and is kept only as a platform for Malaria's soft-porn photo shoots.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)It looks like a wannabe Adams Family movie poster! A failed one!
lillypaddle
(9,580 posts)Did I just miss it?
Initech
(99,915 posts)I can't imagine Trump painting pictures of puppies or singing Don't Stop Believing on karaoke night.
coeur_de_lion
(3,666 posts)Plus Fredo has no interest in the arts.
No intellect either.
Turbineguy
(37,212 posts)SpankMe
(2,937 posts)Few, if any artists would accept invitations to this White House. Trump is toxic and is a career killer to most who'd appear at Trump's invitation.
That, and most administration officials are culturally tone deaf derelicts.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,280 posts)I could imagine a composer, desperate to become known, writing songs or other music paying tribute to His Orangeness that would get him/her invited to the WH and lavishly praised for his/her great contribution to the arts ("the best music anyone has ever heard!" ), and becoming the court composer, like the musicians who worked for the Medicis and other noblemen during the Renaissance (except they actually produced good stuff). But once the Trump administration has disappeared into the dustbin of history, that person wouldn't be able to get a gig writing advertising jingles for toilet paper.
Paladin
(28,204 posts)Why would a brain-dead clod like trump---and the rest of his crime family---have any use for music and the arts?
no_hypocrisy
(45,774 posts)Breakfast with the Beatles on Sundays at 8:00 a.m. with Ken Dashow, the host. Dashow told the radio audience that he occasionally played golf with Trump and Trump would sometimes call in to ask that Dashow play "Hey Bulldog."
Hekate
(90,202 posts)The Teumps are just a wasteland.
cannabis_flower
(3,764 posts)Vinca
(50,170 posts)Wash. state Desk Jet
(3,426 posts)But he likes music that makes him bask in all his imagined power. For example, when on the campaign trail before he was shooed in, he liked to have playing quite loud, the Rolling Stones sympathy for the devil . So.how twisted is that !
liberalguilt57
(89 posts)Flashback to this clip of Lin-Manuel Miranda performing an early version of Alexander Hamilton at the White House, and imagine President Trump sitting there taking it all in. The Obamas knew they were witnessing a special moment. Trump wouldnt have any idea what the whole thing was about.
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Mira
(22,378 posts)...grunts...farts....snorts....and the clicking of dentures.
And not to forget the constant chatter with the accompanying waving of the conductor's right hand.
japple
(9,773 posts)him from watching fOX nEWS.
RVN VET71
(2,686 posts)Remember that? Back when scientists weren't administration pariahs?
Mosby
(16,168 posts)Where is the Buena Vista Social Club?
Blue Owl
(49,934 posts)A complete moron, lacking human emotion...
Mr.Bill
(24,104 posts)of musicians willing to perform would consist of Ted Nugent, Kid Rock and Meat Loaf.
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,539 posts)as well as about 10 backup performers. It was a really fun performance.
trickyguy
(769 posts)saying this for years now about the lack of music or culture of any kind in the WH.
This just amplifies that fact that the current resident is truly an empty man with no soul.
One of my favorite quotes: "A life without music is a mistake" - Nietsche.
And we all know who the mistake is.
SayItLoud
(1,696 posts)spanone
(135,636 posts)lpbk2713
(42,696 posts)It was thoroughly enjoyed by the President and his Lady.
DFW
(54,056 posts)And, although this wasn't at the White House, this was pretty memorable, as well:
DFW
(54,056 posts)And he hasn't proved very good at it.........
Botany
(70,291 posts)The class of the Obamas, the White House, and Paul McCartney & Company make me sad
down deep.
Lady_Chat
(561 posts)So it's no surprise they have no appreciation for the arts.