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A few months ago, I played the last movement of Shostakovich's Fifth symphony and went to cast my vote against our current dirt in White House. Nowdays, a celebrated cellist Matt Haimovitz released his new album. In there, he introduces his cello version of our “The Star-Spangled Banner” inspired by the infamous Jimi Hendrix’s performance during the Woodstock. When I heard it I got a very special feeling, not the same what I had from Hendrix. Our National Anthem vintage of 2004 has a very different taste and a very different flavor. It is not any more a celebration of the testeronial freedom that made Hendrix’s electric guitar to go wild but rather a deliberate masochistically-ironic self-distraction, superbly performed but an academic musician. Bravo, Matt Haimovitz, bravo to your musical exploit and bravo to you timely expressed citizen’s position. Now, it is a time for us, the Americans, to start practicing to play the last movement of the Tchaikovsky’s “Pathétique”...

To listen Haimovitz's "Anthem"

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