As Jim Morrison once said, "the whole shithouse goes up in flames," but Condi plays piano for Queen

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Condoleezza Rice played a private piano recital for the Queen at Buckingham Palace during a visit to London.

Last Updated: 10:37PM GMT 01 Dec 2008

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/theroyalfamily/3540634/Condoleezza-Rice-plays-piano-for-the-Queen.html



The outgoing US Secretary of State was accompanied by Louise Miliband, the wife of Foreign Secretary David Miliband, and three members of the London Symphony Orchestra in her performance of Brahms.

The stateswoman – who is a concert level pianist – was allowed to use a music room at the palace after expressing a wish to play for the Queen before leaving office at the end of the Bush administration in January.

The Queen listened to part of the performance, and afterward presented Miss Rice with an audio recording of the recital as a gift.

Miss Rice started playing the piano as a child and planned a career in music, originally enrolling at university to study the subject before switching to political science. At 15 she performed Mozart's Piano Concerto in D minor with the Denver Symphony Orchestra, as a prize for winning a student competition.

She was taught the instrument by her mother, who was a music teacher, and regularly performs private chamber music recitals with four friends, leading to her be described as the world's most prominent amateur musician.

Miss Rice was visiting London before heading for Brussels to attend a meeting of Nato leaders. Earlier in the day, she met Gordon Brown and Mr Miliband.

[IntravenousDemilo]

1. Ah, for a second there, I thought you meant the band Queen. n/m

[Morning Dew]

2. LMAO - "The Queen listened to part of the performance"

She's way too busy to listen to some vanity performance.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

4. I believe the expression used in the Queen Mum's native land is...

..."I know a bloody wanker when I see one."

:rofl:

[Morning Dew]

3. Dupe-o-rama

oops!

[grasswire]

5. she invited herself?????

No class. NO CLASS.

[TomInTib]

6. That woman cannot play for shit...

I am falling-down-drunk, and I can kick her ass.

Keyboard, and guitar, too.

Tom

[BrotherBuzz]

9. The Piano Has Been Drinking (not me)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72EbGVP9Pak&feature=related

The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me)

The piano has been drinking

My necktie is asleep

And the combo went back to New York

The jukebox has to take a leak

And the carpet needs a haircut

And the spotlight looks like a prison break

And the telephone's out of cigarettes

And the balcony is on the make

And the piano has been drinking

The piano has been drinking



And the menus are all freezing

And the light man's blind in one eye

And he can't see out of the other

And the piano-tuner's got a hearing aid

And he showed up with his mother

And the piano has been drinking

The piano has been drinking

Mmm...



And the bouncer is a Sumo wrestler

Cream-puff Casper Milquetoast

And the owner is a mental midget

With the I.Q. of a fence post

'Cause the piano has been drinking

The piano has been drinking



And you can't find your waitress

With a Geiger counter

And she hates you and your friends

And you just can't get served without her

And the box-office is drooling

And the bar stools are on fire

And the newspapers were fooling

And the ash-trays have retired

'Cause the piano has been drinking

The piano has been drinking

The piano has been drinking

Not me, not me, not me, not me...

[Bluebear]

7. "The stateswoman - who is a concert level pianist ".... in her own mind.

"Concert level" my arse.

[ben_meyers]

8. Oh Ya, Bushies little black female token

banging out chopsticks on the palace piano. Bet you won't find Hillary fooling around like that.