{"id":85528,"date":"2022-10-03T10:56:03","date_gmt":"2022-10-03T10:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/lizzo-plays-james-madisons-priceless-200-year-old-crystal-flute\/"},"modified":"2022-10-03T10:56:03","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T10:56:03","slug":"lizzo-plays-james-madisons-priceless-200-year-old-crystal-flute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/lizzo-plays-james-madisons-priceless-200-year-old-crystal-flute\/","title":{"rendered":"Lizzo Plays James Madison&#8217;s Priceless, 200-Year-Old Crystal Flute"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"oc-video-wrapper\">\n<p>\n\t<span class=\"youtube\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"ast-oembed-container\" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Lizzo plays James Madison&#039;s flute at Library of Congress\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3mb62QNXY0g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><noscript><\/p>\n<div class=\"ast-oembed-container\" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Lizzo plays James Madison&#039;s flute at Library of Congress\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3mb62QNXY0g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><\/noscript><\/span>\n\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In the annals of modern popular music, one does not find a surfeit of flautists.  Tim Weisberg, in partnership with singer-songwriter Dan Fogelberg, did score a modest his or two in the seventies.  More incongruously, Jethro Tull&#8217;s Ian Anderson set his band apart with his decision to take up the flute not long before their earliest performances.  But today, outside the realm of orchestral music, there is surely no higher-profile flautist than Lizzo.  Though best known as a pop singer, she continues to put to use the flute skills she honed at the University of Houston, without which she wouldn&#8217;t have been able to handle a precious piece of American history.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, writes the Library of Congress&#8217; April Slayton, one of that institution&#8217;s librarians Carla Hayden \u201csaw that the one and only Lizzo was coming to DC for a concert.\u201d  Given that \u201cthe Library has the world&#8217;s largest flute collection,\u201d Hayden took the opportunity to point out that fact to the pop star on Twitter.  \u201cOne of about 1,700 flutes in the collection, she teased, is the crystal flute made for President James Madison by Claude Laurent \u2014 a priceless instrument that Dolley Madison rescued from the White House in April 1814 as the British entered Washington, DC during the War of 1812.. Might she want to drop by and play a few bars?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Indeed she did, with results you can see in the video above: at the Library itself, Lizzo tries out one of the collection&#8217;s many flutes;  then she plays the crystal flute itself on onstage at Capitol One Arena, having been handed it by the instrument&#8217;s own security detail.  \u201cIt&#8217;s like playing out of a wine glass,\u201d she tells her thrilled audience.  One wonders if the comparison would ever have occurred to its first owner: \u201cIt&#8217;s not clear if Madison did much with the flute other than admire it,\u201d Slayton writes, \u201cbut it became a family heirloom and an artifact of the era.\u201d  Now it has become a uniting symbol of American culture past and present: however forward-looking the Founding Fathers were, we can safely say they never imagine twerking.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related content:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Butterfly Lands on Flutist&#8217;s Face During Flute Competition: The Show Must Go On<\/p>\n<p>Hear the World&#8217;s Oldest Instrument, the \u201cNeanderthal Flute,\u201d Dating Back Over 43,000 Years<\/p>\n<p>Hear a 9,000 Year Old Flute \u2014 the World&#8217;s Oldest Playable Instrument \u2014 Get Played Again<\/p>\n<p>The Flute of Shame: Discover the Instrument\/Device Used to Publicly Humiliate Bad Musicians During the Medieval Period<\/p>\n<p>The Library of Congress Makes 25 Million Records From Its Catalog Free to Download<\/p>\n<p><em>Based in Seoul, Colin Marshall writes and broadcas<\/em><em>ts on cities, language, and culture.  His projects include the Substack newsletter<\/em> Books on Cities,<em> the book <\/em>The Stateless City: a Walk through 21st-Century Los Angeles <em>and the video series <\/em>The City in Cinema<em>.  Follow him on Twitter at <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#%21\/colinmarshall\" target=\"_blank\">@colinmarshall<\/a> or on Facebook.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script>\n  window.fbAsyncInit = function() {\n    FB.init({\n      appId      : '139550851813', \/\/ App ID\n\t   version    : 'v2.0'\n      channelUrl : '\/\/www.openculture.com\/openculture-misc\/channel.html', \/\/ Channel File\n      status     : true, \/\/ check login status\n      cookie     : true, \/\/ enable cookies to allow the server to access the session\n      xfbml      : true  \/\/ parse XFBML\n    });<\/p>\n<p>    \/\/ Additional initialization code here\n  };<\/p>\n<p>  \/\/ Load the SDK Asynchronously\n  (function(d){\n     var js, id = 'facebook-jssdk', ref = d.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];\n     if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;}\n     js = d.createElement('script'); js.id = id; js.async = true;\n     js.src =  \"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js\";\n     ref.parentNode.insertBefore(js, ref);\n   }(document));\n<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js?ver=6.0.2\" id='facebook-js'><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the annals of modern popular music, one does not find a surfeit of flautists. Tim Weisberg, in partnership with singer-songwriter Dan Fogelberg, did score a modest his or two in the seventies. More incongruously, Jethro Tull&#8217;s Ian Anderson set his band apart with his decision to take up the flute not long before their &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/lizzo-plays-james-madisons-priceless-200-year-old-crystal-flute\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lizzo Plays James Madison&#8217;s Priceless, 200-Year-Old Crystal Flute<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":80487,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/lizzo-plays-a-200-year-old-crystal-flute-lent-to-her-by-the-library-of-congress\/","url_meta":{"origin":85528,"position":0},"title":"Lizzo plays a 200-year-old crystal flute lent to her by The Library of Congress","date":"September 28, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Lizzo made history on Tuesday night after The Library of Congress let her borrow a 200-year-old crystal flute during her concert in Washington, DC. 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