The Opening Ceremony: Totally Forgettable
The Opening Ceremony: Totally forgettable!
I sat there in awe! Not because it was so good, but because it was that boring! The world is looking. 1.3 billion people watching and all the Germans proved was that they do not know how to cut loose and have a party! After great opening ceremonies like the Greeks put up in 2004 at the opening of the Olympics, showing their great history in great song and dance. In 2000 Australia showed the world how they could light up the night with fireworks and pyrotechnics. We have all come to expect great musical and dance acts, coupled with the host nation’s history and culture: But not today. I’m sorry; I just did not like it.
The ceremony was held in Munich; The Bavarian capital. This city is the birth place of the golden liquid that most men thirst for after a long work week: BEER! The stadium was packed to capacity, most in the German white colors.
It started with traditional choir music from German composers sung by a youth choir while about a hundred drummers stood on the pitch and banged their drums in anticipation to the action. One nice element to this part was the whip-men; clapping their whips simultaneously to the beat of the drums. The rolled out the red soft carpet and played more traditional music. The funniest part was when a couple of the men in the traditional band had these over sized “cow” bells around there waists. To produce sounds from these over sized bells, they had to do “suspicious” pelvic movements! The traditional was broken with a performance by German hip-hop group Seed. Not an exhilarating song at all.
The German showed their diplomacy in grandeur when the brought in a precession previous champs of the world cup. Each country brought out their old hero’s of yester year; some as old as 90 years! First out was England, followed by France, Uruguay, Argentina, Italy, Germany and Brazil. This precession brought out some of soccer biggest hall-of-famers like Pele, Maradonna, Ronaldo and Sid Meyer.
The one thing that I did not appreciate, was the fact that the following section was solely presented in German. Seph Blatter, FIFA’s President and the German President and the head of the German World Cup Committee officially opened the World Cup. Although they kept the speeches brief, they did not even try to say anything in another language. This is a global audience of 1.3 million. Probably only 100 million of them speak German.
Okay, they ended it off pretty well with various performers performing the Germany 2006 official anthem: Celebrate the day. The dancers were entertaining while they brought in the flags of all the participating countries. They ended it off there and the great anthem kept resounding in my head…
I sat there in awe! Not because it was so good, but because it was that boring! The world is looking. 1.3 billion people watching and all the Germans proved was that they do not know how to cut loose and have a party! After great opening ceremonies like the Greeks put up in 2004 at the opening of the Olympics, showing their great history in great song and dance. In 2000 Australia showed the world how they could light up the night with fireworks and pyrotechnics. We have all come to expect great musical and dance acts, coupled with the host nation’s history and culture: But not today. I’m sorry; I just did not like it.
The ceremony was held in Munich; The Bavarian capital. This city is the birth place of the golden liquid that most men thirst for after a long work week: BEER! The stadium was packed to capacity, most in the German white colors.
It started with traditional choir music from German composers sung by a youth choir while about a hundred drummers stood on the pitch and banged their drums in anticipation to the action. One nice element to this part was the whip-men; clapping their whips simultaneously to the beat of the drums. The rolled out the red soft carpet and played more traditional music. The funniest part was when a couple of the men in the traditional band had these over sized “cow” bells around there waists. To produce sounds from these over sized bells, they had to do “suspicious” pelvic movements! The traditional was broken with a performance by German hip-hop group Seed. Not an exhilarating song at all.
The German showed their diplomacy in grandeur when the brought in a precession previous champs of the world cup. Each country brought out their old hero’s of yester year; some as old as 90 years! First out was England, followed by France, Uruguay, Argentina, Italy, Germany and Brazil. This precession brought out some of soccer biggest hall-of-famers like Pele, Maradonna, Ronaldo and Sid Meyer.
The one thing that I did not appreciate, was the fact that the following section was solely presented in German. Seph Blatter, FIFA’s President and the German President and the head of the German World Cup Committee officially opened the World Cup. Although they kept the speeches brief, they did not even try to say anything in another language. This is a global audience of 1.3 million. Probably only 100 million of them speak German.
Okay, they ended it off pretty well with various performers performing the Germany 2006 official anthem: Celebrate the day. The dancers were entertaining while they brought in the flags of all the participating countries. They ended it off there and the great anthem kept resounding in my head…
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