I think it was excellently played, it’s just that none of the instruments were tuned to each other.

“Eh...c’est pas mal.”

It’s like a cheap Chinese knockoff of the French national anthem.

And Egypt is lucky Putin didn’t carpet bomb them after that.

Trumpets? You heard trumpets?

Wikipedia: “Typically ancient Egyptian music was composed from the phrygian dominant scale, phrygian scale, double harmonic scale (Arabic scale) or lydian scale. The phrygian dominant scale may often feature an altered note or two in parts to create tension. For instance the music could typically be in the key of E…

Wars have been started over less than that.

Mr. Hollande seemed to be in a daze during the performance.