In late December, 2008, as I was boarding a flight for New Zealand with my two girls, the phone rang. An ordinary occurrence but, on this occasion, an extraordinary request. I had been invited to play John Williams' "Air and Simple Gifts" at the inauguration of President Obama, with Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman and Anthony McGill. I had many hours to ponder the implications of this request. I, a Venezuelan, had been handed the opportunity to represent my native land in my adopted one, on this most historic and conciliatory of occasions. It was an incalculable honor. If the inauguration of President Obama symbolized anything, it was the overdue victory of human dignity over barbarism, equality...
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