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Rice plays piano for Queen as parting gift

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice took some time off from her busy international schedule to play the piano for Queen Elizabeth at the Buckhingham Palace.

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LONDON: US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice took some time off from her busy international schedule to play the piano for Queen Elizabeth at the Buckhingham Palace.
    
She played Brahms on Monday and was accompanied on violin by Louise Miliband, wife of Britain's Foreign Secretary David Miliband, along with three members of the London Symphony Orchestra, Rice's spokesperson Sean McCormack said.
    
Rice had expressed a wish to play for the Queen before leaving office at the end of the Bush administration in January next year. The Queen listened to part of the performance, and later presented Rice with an audio recording of the recital as a gift.
    
McCormack said, "It was all organised by the British and just a very nice gesture as a farewell gift."
    
Rice is known to have started playing the piano as a child and planned a career in music, but later switched to political science. At 15, she performed Mozart's Piano Concerto in D minor with the Denver Symphony Orchestra, as a prize for winning a student competition.
    
She learned to play the piano by her mother, who was a music teacher.
    
Rice is scheduled to land in New Delhi on Wednesday to deal with the stand-off between India and Pakistan arising out of the Mumbai terror attacks.
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