Sydney Orchestra “Synched” 2000 Olympics Performance (too)
August 29, 2008
“What is the big deal!! When you do a live show it is sometimes neccessary to fill in with prerecord section in some instances,” cries Robyn, a commenter on a Canadian news outlet, in response to recent news about the 2000 Sydney Olympic opening performance. The Sydney Symphony Orchestra officially acknowledged that their performance during the opening ceremonies was “entirely prerecorded” and that part of the music was recorded by another symphony: their rivals, Melbourne. Members of the Asian American community respond, “If there was so much controversy about the Chinese lip-syncing or “faking” performances in Beijing, why isn’t there any fuss about the Australians in Sydney?” is there a double standard? If so, why?
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Oy!
Aiyahhhh!!
or Eeeeee!!! . . .
as a character in “Taipan” mightk say . . .
Doubles stabdards in “western” perceptions?
In sexual mores?
In self-anointing sanctities?
Ia the Pope “Catholic”?
Does he wear Prada?
Do Oscars have genitals?
Does anyone care? Other than Bette, that is.
Pour moi, that’s “for me,” in Inglese, the only tongue I can wrap my tongue around, I wish you had dredged an example other than the Aussies, who, after all, have elected a Rudd, who speaks Mandarin and appears to appreicate the fact that the Pacific Rim is tilting westward and the livin’ is easier in one’s own backyard as it were.
Double standard.
Yeah, you’re working for far less than what your wage should be.
Trust me. I know. From experience, that whore of a tell-all and wannabe.
Frank
Oh, and furthermore . . .
Speaking of “symphonies,” orchestras that is, in my time and my dad as an inkstained wretch, Americans were still servile to the European models, and there was much fussing’ and feudin’ over whether the L.A. Philharmonic held a single candle to the Cleveland, never mind the Gotham types, OR those sniffish Bostonians. And when Toscanini was being hyped as coeval with the Mengelbergs and, later, some Viennese conductor whose name escapes me this moment.
Point is, pal, it’s ALL essentially hogwash, as in balderdash AND irrelevancy.
Those musicians who swink and train and, finally, qualify for a “chair” on almost ANY “symphony” orchestra and the mere pittance derived therefrom are the salt of the music world.
And all the “patrons” and funders of the “higher arts” are mere wannabes, clutching after the ephemeral “glories: of the “haut monde.”
Today’s Guardian online has a debunker piece on one Franz Kafka, whose perceived pose as a literate pioneer of the human spirit in the wastelands of bureaucratic hallways is now outed as a Jewish scion of privilege and father-whining pout. And a subscriber to pornography, the high-end stuff of course.
But what has that to do with Kafka’s genius? Not much.
All of which swill I offer as evidence of irrelevancy, the politiczal especially.
Oh, and check out Mike Whitney’s “interviews” of fellow economist guru Michael Hudson, along with Asian counterpart, someone surnamed Liu, whose erudite AND confounding convolutions of comprehension of the “free market” of “global” “capitalism” boils down to, hold your breath, nothing less than DEregulation of our economic infrastructures.
The “Chinese,” herein, at least, are getting out of the subprime housing market, by a quarter they say, and “dollazr”bound marketplaces will have to look to their own.
Meanwhile, as we continue to build missile fences around Putin, methinks he has an ace-in-the-hole with Gazprom AND his “occupation” of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
Didn’t Warren Beatty film that two generations ago?
Oh, and Milosevic does have a point, He claims NATO is a kangaroo court. Yes, maybe the day they prosecute Bush/Cheney is the day Milosevic won’t have a leg on which to stand. In the dock or out of it.
This one is, for sure, THE “double standard.”
fran