Salon.com > Madeleine Albright http://www.salon.com Fri, 24 May 2013 19:30:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Madeleine Albright is quite the drummer http://www.salon.com/2012/09/25/madeleine_albright_is_quite_the_drummer/ http://www.salon.com/2012/09/25/madeleine_albright_is_quite_the_drummer/#comments Tue, 25 Sep 2012 15:37:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13021218 Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright got the biggest applause at the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz gala at the Kennedy Center, because she is apparently an awesome drummer:

From the Washington Post:

"A longtime supporter of jazz who has worked with the Monk Institute for years, Albright received the annual Fisher Founder’s Award. After the customary speech of thanks, she went to a drum set and pounded away on tom-toms and cymbals — quite creditably — as trumpeter Chris Botti performed an instrumental version of 'Nessun dorma,' the aria from the Puccini opera 'Turandot.'"

Albright, who received the gala's annual Fisher Founder’s Award, had a similar exhibition at the Kennedy Center honors in February 2011. Skip to the 2:00 mark for Albright:

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