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The Great Olympic fiddle

Run_to_da_hills · 2012-06-03 10:07:36

Olympic London 2012 opening and closing ceremonies to be pre recorded. The London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) will be miming instead of delivering a live show as athletes from the competing nations parade around the stadium in front of a worldwide audience of four billion. The sound that will be filling the stadium will be…

03-06-2012 10:07AM

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Olympic London 2012 opening and closing ceremonies to be pre recorded.

The London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) will be miming instead of delivering a live show as athletes from the competing nations parade around the stadium in front of a worldwide audience of four billion. The sound that will be filling the stadium will be pre recorded six weeks before ceremony

http://www.olympic-news2012.com/article/1973/Olympic-ceremony-musicians-to-mime

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#2 03-06-2012 11:16AM

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To be fair, have you ever heard an orchestra performing in a stadium? It sounds pretty terrible.

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