Where's that like button!Originally Posted by JesTperfect!
Perhaps I'm just getting caught up in the olympic spirit (did you know that, until a couple of days ago, Cornwall had won more golds than Australia?!),
Where's that like button!
Perhaps I'm just getting caught up in the olympic spirit (did you know that, until a couple of days ago, Cornwall had won more golds than Australia?!
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Maybe we should separate Scotland's tally as well? ;O)
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There is an interview with Philip Sheppard in today's Times. Interesting points include the fact that he was given just 3 months to research, arrange and score all 205 anthems and 6 days to record them all with the LPO. Editing included cutting Uruguay's 6 minute marathon down to 1 minute, and having to loop Uganda's anthem, which is only 9 bars long, to make it long enough for the flag to get to the top of the flagpole (he needn't have bothered - they haven't won any gold medals).
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If it was such a rush why didn't he just leave our anthem alone?
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According to an item on the BBC website, the 'ta da da da' bit was not in the original version (which I can well believe), so the version we are all familiar with is itself a corruption of the original anyway. So there.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19180559
Jim Yelland
Hinckley
Quite. Doesn't excuse the rest of it, though, does it ... ?
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I'm with him! If Mr S. says it's inept so be it!
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Uganda have just won a gold medal in the Men's Marathon. Looking forward to hearing the 8 or 9 bars looped, so that the anthem is long enough to see the flag to the top.
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I can't actually believe I'm about to say this but after hearing it for the last two weeks I've actually grown to quite like it.
(Incidentally, one of my housemates from uni, who actually happens to be a euphonium player, was the man responsible for recording every one of the anthems- I think he did rather a good job!)
The loop certainly caught out Stephen Kiprotich - his hand went up to wave to the corwd after nine bars, and came down sheepishly when he heard the muted refrain!
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