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Olympic faking: Sydney orchestra mimed entire opening ceremony performance
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/australia/2631416/Olympic-faking-Sydney-orchestra-mimed-entire-opening-ceremony-performance.html
The orchestra that played at the Sydney Olympics opening ceremony has admitted miming its entire performance, in a faking confession that dwarfs the Beijing lip-synching scandal.
By Matthew Moore
Last Updated: 11:58PM BST 27 Aug 2008
The musicians of the Sydney Symphony were going through the motions as pre-recorded music was pumped out of speakers during the celebrations at Stadium Australia to mark the start of the 2000 Games, orchestra directors have confirmed.
Parts of the backing track - reportedly including the seven-minute Tin Symphony, one of the centrepieces of the show - were even recorded by a rival institution, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (MSO).
"It's correct that we were basically miming to a pre-recording,” said Libby Christie, Sydney Symphony's managing director, after reports of the deception emerged this week.
"It was all pre-recorded and the MSO did record a minority of the music that was performed," she told the Sydney Morning Herald.
She said that the decision was made because the organisers "wanted to leave nothing to chance", and that the recording was shared between two orchestras because of the "mountainous workload" involved.
Ms Christie said that she could only recall one other occasion on which the Sydney Symphony had mimed – the opening ceremony of the Rugby Union World Cup in 2003.
Trevor Green of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra said he thought the decision to mime was "perfectly normal".
"There are millions of people watching and if something goes wrong you'd be snookered," he said.
The Sydney Symphony’s confession undermines those who have seen the Beijing faking scandals as evidence of a peculiarly Chinese quest for perfection.
Lin Miaoke, a photogenic nine-year-old girl who “sang” as the Chinese flag entered the stadium during the opening ceremony was later revealed to have been miming. The real singer was a seven-year-old girl with buck teeth.
Chinese officials also admitted that the pictures of giant firework footprints which marched across Beijing towards the stadium were prerecorded, digitally enhanced and inserted into footage beamed across the world. |
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發表於 2008-8-29 14:44
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