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Air and Simple Gifts is a quartet composed and arranged^[1] by American composer John Williams for the January 20, 2009, inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44thPresident of the United States.

The first public performance of the piece was in Washington, D.C., immediately prior to Obama taking the oath of office, when musicians Anthony McGill (clarinet), Itzhak Perlman (violin), Yo-Yo Ma (cello) and Gabriela Montero (piano)^[2] synced their performance to a tape they had recorded two days earlier.^[3] It was the first classical quartet to be performed at a presidential inauguration.^[4] Obama officially became the 44th President of the United States while the piece was being performed, at noon, as the United States Constitution stipulates.^[5]

Although it appeared that the piece was being performed live, it was in fact mimed while a recording made two days before was fed to the television pool and speakers.