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Save this story for later. Live music has been a significant part of every Presidential Inauguration since 1789, when George Washington journeyed on horseback from Mount Vernon to New York City, and was fêted en route by various composers, including the German-American violinist Philip Phile, who used the occasion to début a new piece, “The President’s March.” (Washington was tense during his voyage, writing in his diary that he was “oppressed with more anxious and painful sensations than I have words to express,” and admitting that he felt increasingly uncertain about bidding adieu “to private life, and to domestic felicity.”) The Inauguration ceremony has only grown more elaborate and campy in subsequent decades, and, in the modern era, it usually involves one or two or three extravagantly dressed and jittery pop stars. This year, Lady Gaga, Jennifer Lopez, and Garth Brooks performed during the event, which is scheduled to be followed, on Wednesday evening, b ....