Eeuuuw Bob, this is one of the most disturbing things I've ever read here.
Cultural exchange is great but there is something very creepy about this to
me. How did you find it - under a "Joni Mitchell" search? As a side note,
it was reported in several publications that Chelsea Morning was played by
the dj at Chelsea Clinton's 21st birthday party in New York recently.
Kakki
Bob wrote:
> Read this whilst doing some research. Has me salivating...
>
> After dining at the state dinner in Beijing, Clinton and Chinese President
Jiang Zemin cajoled each other to take turns conducting the People's
Liberation Army band. Jiang "was modestly declining an invitation to conduct
[by the band leader], but Clinton egged him on, saying: 'You can do it, Mr.
President! Go for it!' " After Jiang conducted a few bars of "Song for the
Motherland", he asked Clinton to try his hand. The latter led the band in a
John Philip Sousa march.
>
> "More... followed the after-dinner entertainment, which involved a large
ensemble playing Western and Chinese music on traditional Chinese
instruments. Particularly striking was the [group's] rendition of Joni
Mitchell's 'Chelsea Morning,' featuring a soloist on a reed instrument
called a suona." (The suona sounds like a piercing, amplified kazoo. It
must've sounded a bit jarring to hear it render the lilting melody of that
song.)
>
> Bob
>
> NP: Dire Straits, "Sultans of Swing", Italy 1981
