It's a fiddle!

Mahlerei · 03-06-12, 15:27

This story was tweeted a short while ago. It seems the LSO will be miming the music at star of Olympics.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ing-Games.html

**french frank** · 03-06-12, 15:48

And a 'big name' conductor being imported to wave his arms about?

**Beef Oven** · 03-06-12, 15:50

Originally Posted by french frank

And a 'big name' conductor being imported to wave his arms about?

Shame Solti's not around still, he could've done that.

**VodkaDilc** · 03-06-12, 15:52

Originally Posted by Mahlerei

This story was tweeted a short while ago. It seems the LSO will be miming the music at star of Olympics.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ing-Games.html

Something else to avoid!

**salymap** · 03-06-12, 16:02

If they could manage an open air choir of 1200 in the 1948 Olympics, I'm sure they could devise some cover for a live orchestra if it rains.

What a travesty for the LSO to have to do that. Must watch it.

**amateur51** · 03-06-12, 16:05

Originally Posted by Beef Oven

Shame Solti's not around still, he could've done that.

Solti always looked like he was shadow-boxing

**french frank** · 03-06-12, 16:09

If they're using a recording I can't see that the presence of the orchestra is required - except to show that we do things with a bit of class here in the UK.

**Serial_Apologist** · 03-06-12, 16:10

Originally Posted by amateur51

Solti always looked like he was shadow-boxing

Solti and battery then

The *real* question about all this, however, is: do the composers of the music to be... mimed at these games, deserve to be called classical composers?

Does the answer depend which "door" the orchestral "players" will be exiting from? Or what sound the music makes?

**Petrushka** · 03-06-12, 16:23

Does anyone else remember the scene in the Munich Olympic Stadium on September 6 1972 at the commemorative service for the murdered Israeli athletes? The Munich Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Rudolf Kempe played the Funeral March from Beethoven's Eroica.

Didn't Richard Strauss conduct at the opening ceremony of the 1936 Berlin Olympics? I seem to recall some film somewhere, possibly Leni Riefenstahl's Olympia. Elgar conducted at the 1924 Wembley Exhibition.

None of these were mimed.

The LSO and Rattle (if he it is) hold all tha aces: they should withdraw.

**amateur51** · 03-06-12, 16:24

Originally Posted by Serial_Apologist

Solti and battery then

The *real* question about all this, however, is: do the composers of the music to be... mimed at these games, deserve to be called classical composers?

Does the answer depend which "door" the orchestral "players" will be exiting from? Or what sound the music makes?

Scamp, S_A!

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