Christopher Marchiot
Appearances
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I have some power in my voice, some colour, and so I'll be endeavouring to deliver the most impactful, stirring and moving performance that I can.
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Washington gears up for Trump inauguration
It's just first and foremost a privilege to have been asked to perform at an event like this at a particularly historic moment. I think that rather than being nervous per se, I just feel imbued with a sense of responsibility to deliver a performance that really...
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Washington gears up for Trump inauguration
honors our great nation, but also uses the universality of music to really try and unite the nation going forward for the next four years.
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Well, no one occurrence or one particular contributor, I think, can quite get that job done completely. But it's my humble hope to contribute to other efforts underway that hopefully collectively can achieve that noble goal and move us together in that right direction.
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No, they're not fans. There obviously is a tendency in the artistic community towards a liberal sensibility. In recent years, maybe even a more overtly leftist progressive sensibility. And for myself, I just have always, my entire life from childhood, was precociously politically aware, and I always had very conservative values at my core.
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And so really, President Trump has been the first president in my lifetime that has consistently adhered to those standards. I support him wholeheartedly without necessarily feeling the need to throw it in everybody's face at every opportunity in an obnoxious way. Everybody knows precisely where I stand on President Trump, that I'm a thousand percent loyal, unconditionally so.
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that there's a way to go about expressing your support that is mindful of and respectful of you know where other people are coming from because that gives you the room and the flexibility to hear what their concerns might be and then polemically to maybe address some of those concerns and change some hearts and minds and really that's something that in my private life and
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Also, in my professional life, I endeavor to accomplish.
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You know, I really don't know if he's ever done that. I know he loves opera. So as far as sitting through an entire one, I think the breadth and gravitas of his responsibilities might make that a little bit difficult, at least over the next four years. But I do know that opera is featured prominently on his playlist.
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So I'll do my best to give him the best operatic experience possible whenever I see him.