Celine did not sing the Beijing 2008 Olympics theme song

[Bellamy]

Maybe she cancelled because she doesn't like fried rice...

 

No, really, I still don't quite understand what happened there.

The Beijing concert was canceled due to the venue was not available to Celine at that time, and they can't find another venue in time.

 

haha,i see you at the show

Yeah, I was. And you?

 

That's one of the best Celine moments to me. Especially because Rene recognized me.

[venezia7]

it all feels like it is just like the game of chinese whispers where something very innocent is said and then as it gets passed on it spreads and changes so it ends up nothing like the original sentence.

 

It's all about the wikipedia thing.

 

The 'reporters' got ferverish to say that someone was gonna sing

as there's no news about anyone.

 

Ow, Geez... I don't like that Sarah woman... I really don't like her,

don't like her faces, don't like her stupid voice. SHE IS SOOOO ANOYING

 

i knew i shouldnt have got my hopes up it did seem a bit to good to be true though

 

 

What Sarah Bloody Brightman, you have to be kidding me

 

I cant stand her...i will watch anyway as i love the opening ceremony but i know the whole time i will eb thinking "should have been Celine" "Celine would have been so much better"

[VinnyT.]

http://www.rtlinfo.be/news/article/156855/...3%A0+P%C3%A9kin

 

more! "big slap for celine dion in Beijing "

[celine_026]

it all feels like it is just like the game of chinese whispers where something very innocent is said and then as it gets passed on it spreads and changes so it ends up nothing like the original sentence.

 

It's all about the wikipedia thing.

 

The 'reporters' got ferverish to say that someone was gonna sing

as there's no news about anyone.

 

Ow, Geez... I don't like that Sarah woman... I really don't like her,

don't like her faces, don't like her stupid voice. SHE IS SOOOO ANOYING

 

i knew i shouldnt have got my hopes up it did seem a bit to good to be true though

 

 

What Sarah Bloody Brightman, you have to be kidding me

 

I cant stand her...i will watch anyway as i love the opening ceremony but i know the whole time i will eb thinking "should have been Celine" "Celine would have been so much better"

 

The saaaaaaaaaaaaaaaame for me here

[CelineTheBest5]

Its a pity, but we knew before she wouldn't be there

[Davey84]

how many times has this topic title been edited?

[celine_026]

how many times has this topic title been edited?

 

I am in hopes of a miracle...

 

that Bellamy change it again

[deccan]

Maybe she cancelled because she doesn't like fried rice...

 

No, really, I still don't quite understand what happened there.

The Beijing concert was canceled due to the venue was not available to Celine at that time, and they can't find another venue in time.

 

haha,i see you at the show

Yeah, I was. And you?

 

That's one of the best Celine moments to me. Especially because Rene recognized me.

of course i was there,but i was not sitting in the audience...it's also a diamond time to me

[CelineHayatiAna]

By Sarah Marsh Reuters - Monday, August 4 04:05 am

 

LONDON (Reuters) - Imagine the Olympics Games void of music - the raising of the Olympic flag without the Olympic hymn, the parade of nations in a hushed stadium and synchronized swimming to the sounds of silence.

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Music has helped turn the Olympics opening ceremony into one of sport's great occasions and Beijing organisers have already released pre-Olympic jingles, including the theme song for the 100-day countdown celebration featuring vocals by Hong Kong film hero Jackie Chan.

 

The musical lineup for the Beijing Games, which start on Friday, remains secret although the Olympics Cultural Festival, from June 23 to September 17, will include performances by Italian pop tenor Andrea Bocelli and British soprano Sarah Brightman.

 

The founding father of the modern Olympics, Baron Pierre de Coubertin, felt the Games needed to integrate sport and the arts and his zeal led to the creation of competitions in music, sculpture, painting, literature and architecture in 1912.

 

Winners of the so-called "Pentathlon of the muses" were, like their athletic counterparts, awarded gold, silver and bronze medals.

 

"He wanted (to include) the arts pretty much from the start and this was all part of his vision," said Olympic historian Phillip Barker.

 

"It was a nice idea to try and make out that everybody wasn't just a muddied oaf."

 

The competitions suffered, however, because judges deemed many of the entries substandard and refusing to award medals.

 

Another sticking point was the amateur rule that forbade professionals from participating in the Games, thereby preventing contributions from the artistic elite.

 

After 1948, the arts competitions were abandoned, and the host cities focused instead on the cultural festival held in the run-up to and throughout the Games.

 

Music has been especially prominent at the opening and closing ceremonies.

 

"In the opening ceremonies you have a lot of prescribed music. The Olympic hymn has to be sung ... and the national anthem of the host country," said the author of "100 Years of Olympic Music", William Guegold.

 

Increasingly though, host cities have integrated top class music acts into these ceremonies. Some of them have provided one for the Games' highlights and given worldwide fame to the artists.

 

On the occasion of the performance of opera star Montserrat Caballe at the Barcelona 1992 Games, journalist William Livingstone wrote in Stereo Review:

 

"Which champion gets the gold medal? Montserrat Caballe! Again, she demonstrates that she possesses one of the most beautiful voices ever to issue from a human throat."

 

CLASSICAL MEETS POP

 

It was in Barcelona that classical music met pop at the Olympics, marking the progressive move away from high-brow musical performances to crowd-pulling acts.

 

One of the most enduring memories from Barcelona was the crowds streaming out of the Montjuic stadium late at night accompanied by the haunting theme tune "Barcelona", recorded by Caballe with Queen singer Freddie Mercury.

 

Four years later in Atlanta, rock 'n' roll took over at the closing ceremony. Athletes poured into the stadium for the mother of all discos with Little Richard pounding out "Good Golly Miss Molly" and Stevie Wonder sang the John Lennon anthem "Imagine."

 

"The opening ceremonies are more of ritual and the closing ceremonies are more of a going-away party for the athletes, you will see more popular music that the athletes can relate to," said Guegold.

 

Popular in this instance also means money-making. Recordings of official and unofficial Olympic songs sell like hot pancakes and are heavily promoted and distributed throughout host cities.

 

An official album of around 30 Olympic songs is set to be released for the Beijing Olympics and retailed at some 3,000 shops in China.

 

Expectations for the musical lineup at the Beijing Games are high and the opening ceremony may be the most extravagant yet. The 2008 cultural festival will be the biggest so far.

 

The festival has been held every year since 2003 and included performances by some of China's best musicians and orchestras, film festivals, song competitions, exhibitions as well as some of the major landmarks in Games preparations such as the launch of the mascots.

 

"This is 2008, this is China," said Ren Xiaolong, deputy division chief at BOCOG's Ceremonies and Culture department. "We have more than a billion people so I think we can say it will be the biggest Olympic cultural festival ever."

[celinesounds]

maybe she will or not

 

or maybe a duet

[bruno_oliveira]

http://translate.google.com/translate?u=ht...zh-CN&tl=en

 

it says that sarah brightman is already in beijing as well as "many international stars "

[VintageCeline]

I don't like Sarah Brightman

 

What a letdown....

 

x

[Teodora]

I don't get where all this is coming from. Celine was never supposed to sing at this year's Olympics. She only said she supports it and that she'll be back to Beijing some day. Even that info that she submitted a song was wrong, because it was actually Mego who had submitted a song. All these reports are so silly. It's like they pick a huge name and try to drag it in whatever is going on in the world.

[celine_026]

SARAH will not performe on the olimpics, as said by LOVE

 

It's on a festival there. She's not for the big thing. Nor Andrea

[celine_026]

I don't get where all this is coming from. Celine was never supposed to sing at this year's Olympics. She only said she supports it and that she'll be back to Beijing some day. Even that info that she submitted a song was wrong, because it was actually Mego who had submitted a song. All these reports are so silly. It's like they pick a huge name and try to drag it in whatever is going on in the world.

 

Oh, you seem to know everything... why don't you tell us what's gonna happen then?

 

As for the playback -> You said it's a surreal thing, never happened...

 

Then -- I prefer to keep my hopes up to a miracle :giggle:

 

[Teodora]

I don't know anything. Can you give me any thrustworthy reports where anybody from Celine's team says she was going to sing at the Olympics? No, because there weren't none.

[dj4celine]

The media are the funniest when reporting something they don't know about If she had a problem with China, she wouldn't have given a concert there Media can be so dumb sometimes.

 

As for Celine performing there or not, I really don't care. The opening and the closing ceremonies are the best there is to enjoy (apart from other events as well). If Celine performs, it would be an added bonus. But I'm watching it

[Teodora]

The media are the funniest when reporting something they don't know about If she had a problem with China, she wouldn't have given a concert there Media can be so dumb sometimes.

 

As for Celine performing there or not, I really don't care. The opening and the closing ceremonies are the best there is to enjoy (apart from other events as well). If Celine performs, it would be an added bonus. But I'm watching it

I always watch too. They're always so spectacular. And this is the country that invented fireworks! I think we're in for the most spectacular openning ever.

[bruno_oliveira]

http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/0elj0I07Z9dVU/610x.jpg

I WANT TO SEE A PHOTO LIKE THIS ONE SOON...... (this is from the oscar right?)

but admit...just by looking at this your heart beated faster right?

[Nando Férri]

http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/0elj0I07Z9dVU/610x.jpg

I WANT TO SEE A PHOTO LIKE THIS ONE SOON...... (this is from the oscar right?)

but admit...just by looking at this your heart beated faster right?

Mmmmm... No....

[bruno_oliveira]

i love rehearsal photos..

i wish i was from the press...

Edited August 5, 2008 at 04:34 PM by bruno_oliveira

[celine_026]

http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/0elj0I07Z9dVU/610x.jpg

I WANT TO SEE A PHOTO LIKE THIS ONE SOON...... (this is from the oscar right?)

but admit...just by looking at this your heart beated faster right?

Mmmmm... No....

 

better put some makeup on to make Nando's heart beat fast

[Shall]

I'm hoping that Celine will be too busy with another baby and not be in a position to say yay or nay to an Olympic song.

 

 

I agree.....i hope she will not sing at the olympic game this time...

FREE TIBET..

What did you say? Are you a true celine fan? Everybody here is so exciting and praying that she can perform in Beijing!!! I don't want to interfere with your personal point of view,

 

BUT CELINE DION SAID IN BEIJING ON APRIL, 12th 2008:

"When you talk about Olympic games, you don't want to talk about politics. We talk about love. We talk about dreams!"

 

That's all. Thank you!

Edited August 5, 2008 at 04:40 PM by Shall

[bruno_oliveira]

hi shall...

you need to become a friend from the press hahah

to ask if they have some news about it.

[Shall]

hi shall...

you need to become a friend from the press hahah

to ask if they have some news about it.

 

The theme song is a top top secret of the opening ceremony, with only less than 10 people knowing the truth all over China. They won't even tell a close friend...

 

But the vice director of the ceremony told something in an interview by a Chinese journalist Xu Gehui (许戈辉). The Vice director said that the song will be performed by two singers standing on a raising earth.

 

I just came back from the last rehersal of the opening ceremony tonight. And I saw the "earth", but I feel a little weird that the earth appeared long before the flame was lighted. Usually, the theme song should appear after the torch relay reaches its destination.

 

So it's totally a myth for all. We can only wait and see!

Edited August 5, 2008 at 05:41 PM by Shall

[remykyes]

i do have to say, the opening & closing ceremonies are what i enjoy about the olympics the best. every country gets to show off their cultures. for example, 4 years ago in athens, that was a spectatcular opening show. i'm sure china will be able to do a fabulous one as well. but nothing will beat Celine in Atlanta in 1998 singing "the power of the dream"!

[deccan]

i do have to say, the opening & closing ceremonies are what i enjoy about the olympics the best. every country gets to show off their cultures. for example, 4 years ago in athens, that was a spectatcular opening show. i'm sure china will be able to do a fabulous one as well. but nothing will beat Celine in Atlanta in 1998 singing "the power of the dream"!

1996,not 1998!~

[dj4celine]

i do have to say, the opening & closing ceremonies are what i enjoy about the olympics the best. every country gets to show off their cultures. for example, 4 years ago in athens, that was a spectatcular opening show. i'm sure china will be able to do a fabulous one as well. but nothing will beat Celine in Atlanta in 1998 singing "the power of the dream"!

 

You mean 1996, right?

[Bellamy]

i do have to say, the opening & closing ceremonies are what i enjoy about the olympics the best. every country gets to show off their cultures. for example, 4 years ago in athens, that was a spectatcular opening show. i'm sure china will be able to do a fabulous one as well. but nothing will beat Celine in Atlanta in 1998 singing "the power of the dream"!

Athens opening ceremony was brilliant, but Bjork was a disaster. Celine sang "the power of the dream" in 1996.

[bruno_oliveira]

hi shall...

you need to become a friend from the press hahah

to ask if they have some news about it.

 

The theme song is a top top secret of the opening ceremony, with only less than 10 people knowing the truth all over China. They won't even tell a close friend...

 

But the vice director of the ceremony told something in an interview by a Chinese journalist Xu Gehui (许戈辉). The Vice director said that the song will be performed by two singers standing on a raising earth.

 

I just came back from the last rehersal of the opening ceremony tonight. And I saw the "earth", but I feel a little weird that the earth appeared long before the flame was lighted. Usually, the theme song should appear after the torch relay reaches its destination.

 

So it's totally a myth for all. We can only wait and see!

 

like this?

http://www.brianhayes.com/images/earth-inflatable.jpg

http://www.stanleyfoundation.org/images/earthballoon.jpg

 

i think i saw some chinese with black clothes and small lamps just like stars....

they will make the earth appear from the space????

http://www.nancarrow-webdesk.com/warehouse/storage2/2008-w28/img.267021_t.jpg

 

so theres a world!

 

"YOU GAAAAVE MEEE A WOOOORRLD TO BELIEEEVE IN"

Edited August 5, 2008 at 06:11 PM by bruno_oliveira