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Dec 2, 2008 9:35 am US/Eastern
Piano For The Queen: Condi Rice Plays The Palace
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice speaks during a news conference in Kazakhstan as she begins talks focused on security and energy cooperation with the strategic Central Asian state on Oct. 5, 2008.
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Live from the palace -- Condi Rice on piano!
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice performed in a piano quintet Monday night for Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace.
Rice played Brahms' Op. 34 with British Foreign Secretary David Miliband's wife, Louise, on violin, and three members of the London Symphony Orchestra.
The queen gave Rice an audio recording of the performance as a gift.
Rice is a classically trained pianist who had expressed a wish to play at the palace.
She was making her final trip to Britain before President-elect Barack Obama takes office next month. On Tuesday, she gave a farewell speech to NATO foreign ministers in Brussels.
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