I happened upon the Grammy Awards broadcast a few minutes before an astounding gospel/opera duet performance of Simon and Garfunkel's "Bridge Over Troubled Waters", with videos of the Haiti rescue effort showing on the big screen behind.

I am so completely out of touch with popular culture I don't know who the singers were; but it was, I think, the most amazing, and moving, presentation of the extraordinarily beautiful song I've encountered.

Perhaps someone can clue me in as to who the artists were.

Not from the Grammys, but this is my favorite "Relief for Haiti" song I've heard so far.

Thanks very much. I've never even heard of either, just to demonstrate how clueless I am.

I actually watched the "Relief for Haiti" production and that performance on TV. Being clueless as to popular culture I had no idea Justin Timberlake is so talented.

It really was a beautiful performance of a beautiful song. Who was it singing with Timberlake?

I like K.D.'s cover of the Cohen song much better than Timberlake's.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_NpxTWbovE

seriously? disagree w/ ya there.

I don't know much about Matt Morris.... I think he was on the Mickey Mouse club w/ Timberlake when they were kids... so they know each other through that.

Wow. That is indeed a stunning performance. I think the first time I heard or saw the performance of the song was by Bono.

I'm so out of it I had no idea it is a Leonard Cohen song. Thanks for the education.

I'm so completely out out of it I had no idea Timberlake was on the Mickey Mouse Club and have never heard of Morris. I thought the Mickey Mouse Club folded the tent in the '60s.

I stopped watching shortly after Elton John joined Lady Gaga onstage. I see Sir Elton is continuing his slow but definite transformation into Liza Minnelli.

I think I'm more clueless than Turnow. Who or what is Lady Gaga?

It is such a beautiful, perfectly constructed song, I'm not sure how it could be messed up. This is still one of my favorite versions:

I watched from beginning to end of what I thought was a pretty well done award show. Exceptions: I thought Steven Cobert was off his game early on. And, I wasn't as thrilled with the rap performance at the end of the night. Most of my concern over the rap, though, is personal taste.

My favorite performance was Green Day. I would love to see the "American Idiot" play in New York. And Pink was good too. She must work out.

I thought Pink was fantastic. I'd have been a little irritated had I been within shot of all the dripping water, though.

I've come to like a small amount of Taylor Swift... not much mind you, but a small amount. She was godawful with Stevie Nicks. Anyone can hit a bad note once in a while. But, a pro figures it out and either gets to the right note or compensates if it's too high or low. While Miss Swift is having a career year (2009/10), she was way out of her league with Stevie. And Stevie was a great pro, willing stepping back and singing backup on one song for Taylor and never once putting her finger in her throat while Taylor was botching it.

I totally agree with you... Taylor Swift was awful. And Stevie could do nothing about it. I think she was holding back so she wouldn't get blamed. That performance was the low of the night for me.

That was ridiculous.

Heh, so LJ, do you mean I should be glad the video has been removed? Gaga just sounds like "gag me" to me. Does she look/sing gaggy?

Funny... "Lady Gag" is what I call her. From what I've seen and heard, she's just a lot of elaborate costumes. All image, no substance. The Madonna career track on steroids, but harder to look at.