Báo chí Tây phương làm rùm beng về chuyện Ban tổ chức thế vận hội Bắc Kinh 2008 đưa ca sĩ ra hát nhép và làm mấy show giả trong buổi lễ khai mạc. Tưởng chỉ có Á châu mới làm chuyện giả tạo này, nhưng lầm to, vì bọn Tây họ cũng làm giả thôi. Bài báo dưới đây trên tờ Sydney Morning Herald nói trong buổi khai mạc Thế vận hội Sydney 2000, họ cũng cho dàn nhạc ra chơi nhưng tất cả thì đã thu âm trước và chỉ phát thanh ra thôi, chứ ban nhạc chỉ chơi cho có! Hahaha. Vậy mà mấy anh chàng nhà báo Tây phương làm đạo đức giả lên giọng dạy đời thiên hạ! Chỉ tiếc là có người mình tin họ như là tin vào chân lí.
Viết đến đây tôi nhớ đến lời của Phật (hay ai đó) dạy rằng thấy cái gì quá hoàn hảo hay quá tệ đều đáng chất vấn. Trên đời này chẳng có cái gì hoàn hảo cả. Khoa học chẳng bao giờ tìm hết mọi sự thật của tự nhiên, chỉ gần với sự thật thôi. Ông George Box nói một câu chí lí rằng: tất cả các mô hình -- dù là mô hình toán học hay sinh học -- đều sai hết, nhưng trong đó có một vài mô hình tốt. (Sai ở đây hiểu theo nghĩa không phản ảnh đầy đủ hiện tượng tự nhiên, chứ chẳng có dính dáng gì đến “God” ở đây cả). Nhiệm vụ của chúng ta là đi tìm mấy cái “mô hình tốt” đó.
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Revealed: Sydney Olympics faked it too
Richard Jinman, Arts Editor
August 26, 2008 - 10:19AM
MADONNA has done it, so have Milli Vanilli and the "flawless" Chinese singer Lin Miaoke. But miming isn't a technique associated with the world's great orchestras.
As a result, the Sydney Symphony's confirmation that it mimed its entire performance at the opening ceremony of the 2000 Sydney Olympics comes as something of a shock. Even worse, it admits the backing tape was recorded, in part, by its southern rival, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.
"It [the performance] was all pre-recorded and the MSO did record a minority of the music that was performed," the Sydney Symphony's managing director, Libby Christie, said yesterday. "It's correct that we were basically miming to a pre-recording."
Ms Christie said the reason the orchestra did not play live was that Olympics organisers "wanted to leave nothing to chance". She said short deadlines and a "mountainous workload" required the use of two orchestras to make the backing tape.
A report in a Melbourne newspaper claimed the MSO, conducted by Paul Grabowsky, played "much of the [opening ceremony] program" including the celebrated seven-minute Tin Symphony.
Not true, said Ms Christie. The majority of the repertoire was recorded by the Sydney Symphony at Studio 301 in Alexandria.
The managing director of the MSO, Trevor Green, backed her up yesterday.
"It was purely a workload issue," he said. "It's nothing to do with priorities or which orchestra is better. It was decided to split [the work] between the two orchestras ...
"It's quite a normal practice and if the Olympics had been in Melbourne, the Sydney Symphony would have been involved - I'm sure of that."
Neither Mr Green nor Ms Christie could recall which parts had been played by which orchestra. "I haven't a clue and I'm not that interested," Mr Green said.
"We should really be celebrating the fact that a country the size of Australia has six international orchestras."
It is extremely unusual for the Sydney Symphony to mime, Ms Christie said. The opening of the Rugby Union World Cup in 2003 was the only other example she could recall.
Mr Green said the MSO had used a backing tape at the opening ceremony of the 2006 Commonwealth Games.
"The miming side of it is perfectly normal," he said. "There are millions of people watching and if something goes wrong you'd be snookered."
Arjun Ramachandran reports: For those who may have had suspicions about the music played during the Pope's visit to Sydney for World Youth Day, a spokesman for the event said: "The nature of liturgical celebrations does not permit pre-records; it is an authentic expression of the prayer and song of those people at the time in that place."He said orchestras, including the SBS Youth Orchestra and the WYD08 Orchestra, rehearsed for at least six months and performed live at the event.
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