The first-ever space-Earth flute performance took place over the weekend with Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson dueting with NASA astronaut Col. Cady Coleman.
We wouldn’t blame you if you thought this marvelous little performance was still to come. Press announcements issued last week declared the duet would take place April 12, 50 years to the date when Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human in history to be launched into space.
With Coleman floating weightlessly on board the International Space Station while Anderson kept his feet planted firmly on the ground in Perm, Russia, the two flautists played a portion of “Bouree,” which appeared on Tull’s 1969 album Stand Up.
Along with carrying one of Anderson’s flutes to the space station, Coleman took a penny whistle and Irish flute belonging to The Chieftains.
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We wouldn’t blame you if you thought this marvelous little performance was still to come. Press announcements issued last week declared the duet would take place April 12, 50 years to the date when Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human in history to be launched into space.
With Coleman floating weightlessly on board the International Space Station while Anderson kept his feet planted firmly on the ground in Perm, Russia, the two flautists played a portion of “Bouree,” which appeared on Tull’s 1969 album Stand Up.
Along with carrying one of Anderson’s flutes to the space station, Coleman took a penny whistle and Irish flute belonging to The Chieftains.
Read More
http://www.pollstar.com/blogs/news/archive/2011/04/11/763148.aspx
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