An “error” you call it? An error was the time I dropped an egg on the floor. The last eight years were a horrendous, multi-trillion dollar catastrophe, and in the election we came far too close to maybe permanently ruining the US with the nasty, lying, crooked, national security and foreign policy disaster second place one who shall not be named, maybe never named again.

Yes, mostly I watched Melania: Why? I don’t want to see her hurt. The risk? Recently Newt Gingrich called the election sublimated civil war, and to me that begins to explain much of what we saw for the past 17 months or so.

For the horrendous catastrophe of the last 8 years, that was another serious war where, to quote a recent Gingrich remark on Hannity, the adversary did as much damage to the US as he could.

Melania looked, acted just terrific. The Donald picked very well, and now the US can be very proud.

On dancing, yes, I noticed that — sad situation. It was so embarrassing I couldn’t watch it and turned away. Of course, the music wasn’t very good for dancing.

The US used to know how to dance. Gee, can get good at the waltz in about an hour. That part of US culture has gone downhill, along with much more.

So, Don and Melania could have practiced the waltz for about an hour. Then would need for the orchestra to play some danceable waltz music. How about

R. Strauss, The Blue Danube, Vienna Philharnonic Orchestra.

at

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6t318FgFdc

For more, there is the Hector Berlioz sparkling orchestration of the Carl Maria von Weber

Aufforderung zum Tanz

or

Invitation to the Dance

at

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7b5YWRQP0U

There is an old USA sweetheart version by Deanna Durbin from a movie at

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6N_E5KHs1g

which immediately is danceable!

And there is the Tchaikovsky, Waltz of the Flowers

at

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxHkLdQy5f0

This just in! At

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0yNcnPAM14

is

My top 10 favorite waltz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0yNcnPAM14

The second one there, right, another J. Strauss, would have been good for dancing.

But, wait, there is more:

As Donald was walking down the steps of the Capitol site of the swearing in at the inauguration, they could have played, say, Beethoven’s Ode to Joy, say, from Australia as at

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFX8S9aAgvw

or starting at, say, 3:58 at

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbJcQYVtZMo

or starting at

7:08 at

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kcOpyM9cBg

or with an orchestra in Japan with a choir filling a large sports stadium as at

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBlQZyTF_LY

Or, when Donald and Melania entered the Lincoln Memorial on Thursday, play, say, the

R. Wagner, “Entry of the Gods Into Valhalla,” Das Rheingold,

e.g., as at

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b80Jw8MuZxo

Or, Donald and Melania could have arrived at the Thursday concert by boat down the Potomac with the music

Richard Wagner, “Dawn and Siegfried’s Rhine Journey,” from Götterdämmerung.

as at

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMn9fObPH7g

and have Donald and Melania step off the boat at about 3:00.

Ah, the last two uses of music would have been a bit much, especially since Trump is aiming strongly, as he very much should in our democracy, at the unemployed in the fly over states.

The inauguration could also have made use of some of the sections of

Richard Strauss, Ein Heldenleben.

e.g., by von Karajan as at

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nu5AXJGmkJk

In the third section the guy courts and wins the girl, played by the violin, maybe sounds some like Melania did when Don was courting her, as at

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbeTgo9d24s

In the fourth section is his battle with his enemies, e.g., as at

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0wfQjiK7I0

So, the enemies? NYT? HRC? BHO?

At the end, at about 8:00 to the end of the section, is the victory music, some of the best victory music!

So, play the victory music as the helicopter with the previous POTUS, he who is not to be named, takes off.

The rest is works of peace, e.g., Trump as POTUS and later with just his family.

Gee, Melania is from Europe, so why not a lot of music from there? But, sure, instead of just Europe, somewhere they might have played

Aaron Copeland, “Hoedown,” Appalachian Spring,

as at

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsReWx9XdNs

Gee, Don and Melania could have learned to have danced at that!

Or, sure,

“Simple Gifts” at

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JI6RYZygevA

with a very careful performance of the full piece at

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMaAe2aH6pw

Sure, somewhere, nearly anywhere,

Aaron Copland, Fanfare For The Common Man.

as at

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NjssV8UuVA

But, Trump was fully correct: There was plenty of celebration, and the main thing to do was to get to work.

For me, got most of the unpredictable exogenous interruptions beaten back, and hope next week to order the parts for my first server computer. Should be a nice computer — 8 core 64 bit processor at 4.0 GHz with 32 GB of ECC main memory with three hard disks at about 2 TB each.

.
Hey, Jim, yeah they sure couldn’t dance. I wonder what they do at weddings?

The VMI cadets did us old grads proud. 1500 marchers. Wow!

Be well, my friend. Hang on, it’s going to get bumpy.

BRC
http://www.themusingsofthebigredcar.com

Did you see them dancing?

http://themusingsofthebigredcar.com/mandatory-dancing-lessons-trumps-america/

OK, sorry. Yes, the President needs to take some dancing lessons. Kind of rude, but if I don’t tell him, who will?

BRC
http://www.themusingsofthebigredcar.com