BUSH Conducts Orchestra

[kpete]

Bush conducts orchestra.“JoAnn Falletta was doing what a conductor should — concentrating on the orchestra in front of her. No wonder it took her a few seconds on Sunday to realize someone behind her was motioning for a try. President Bush.”


“Smiling at me kind of devilishly,” Falletta said.

She gave him her baton and stepped aside.

Gesturing exuberantly, the president led the orchestra during part of its performance of “Stars and Stripes Forever.”

“We didn’t expect him to know the score so well,” Falletta said afterward. “He was not shy about conducting at all. He conducted with a great deal of panache.” <…>

Just before the music ended, Bush turned to Falletta, who stood on a step below him, kissed the top of her head and left without saying a word.

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/13/bush-conducts-orchestra/

[Bluebear]

1. “We didn’t expect him to know the score so well” - who the fuck doesn't?

It's not like he barged his way on stage to conduct Ravel's La Valse.

[Berry Cool]

3. You know, there's an old joke orchestras have

about what the difference is between an orchestra and a bull.

"The difference is, a bull has the horns in the front and an asshole in the back."

Never before has that joke rung so true.

[momster]

2. Kissed the Top of her head?

Left without a word?

We've got Lenny running the country....did he have any white mice?

[Bluebear]

4. “Smiling at me kind of devilishly,” Falletta said. nt

[Manifestor_of_Light]

6. Tell me about the rabbits, Lenny.......

[DemGa]

5. Nice to see Bush can be so playful

while troops are dying, some held captive in a foreign land. :sarcasm:

[sheerjoy]

10. EXACTLY!!!! n/t

[peekaloo]

7. The orchestra members seem so thrilled to have Otis the town drunk

swatting imaginary flies before them.

[grasswire]

8. now I get it -- he thinks he's Jerry Lewis!!

All this drumming and hamming and pratfalls and now even orchestra conducting. He freaking thinks he's Jerry Lewis. "La----dy! La---------dy!"

[live love laugh]

9. Gee those kids look real happy having him there ...

:eyes:

[Rex]

11. Lost it.

Long ago.