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“Air and Simple Gifts,” the lofty arrangement played by the quartet at the inauguration, was far from simple. In fact, the music performed by Itzhak Perlman, Yo-Yo Ma and their colleagues had been pre-recorded two days before. The musicians did really play their instruments just before President Obama took the stage, but the music blasting over loud speakers was something else.