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Want to hear something beautiful? Air and Simple Gifts, performed at Obama's inaugural 2009
by amazing and diverse musicians: Yo-Yo Ma, a Chinese-French-American cellist; Anthony McGill, an African-American clarinetist;
Itzhak Perlman, an Israeli-born violinist who gets around on crutches or an Amigo scooter; and Gabriela Montero, a pianist from Venezuela (born to an American mother and Venezuelan father).
They were playing an arrangement by John Williams of "Simple Gifts" from American composer Aaron Copland's ballet music Appalachian Spring, which Williams chose because Copland is one of Obama's favorite classical composers.
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