rav3n Posted August 22, 2006 Report Share Posted August 22, 2006 This is a thread to post the musics played on the opening & closing ceremonies of the olympic games (and another games like the Pan Am or Commonwealth). For all the fans of the OC and CC. Upload your music files on this page: www.filefactory.com Moscow 1980 A lot of songs played on the ceremonies. http://anp.lib.ru/songs/l_m_sprt.shtml Los Angeles 1984 The song ''The Olympian'' (lighting of the olympic cauldron by Rafer Johnson) http://www.filefactory.com/file/6f5eb9/ Indianapolis 1987 (Pan Am Games) Official Fanfare http://www.filefactory.com/file/67d8ed/ Barcelona 1992 ALL of the olympic fanfares of Carles Santos, played on the Opening and closing of the games. Click the music icon on the right side of the names to play them (the Bienvenidos song is a sample and not the complete song, sorry) http://www.starzik.com/mp3/produits/Musica...icas-39669.html El Cant dels Ocells, by Pau Casals (at the closing ceremony, during the extinction of the olympic flame) http://www.filefactory.com/file/6071ff/ Atlanta 1996 The Power of the Dream, by Celine Dion (opening ceremony) http://www.filefactory.com/file/45b297/ Call To All Nations, by Mickey Hart, played at the beggining of the Opening Ceremony (and on other parts of the OC, if i remember).Just a sample, sorry, if someone have the complete song please contact me or post it here http://www.filefactory.com/file/eeed34/ Reach, by Gloria Estefan (closing ceremony & official theme). http://www.filefactory.com/file/3d9ff3/ Summon the Heroes, by John Williams http://www.filefactory.com/file/130f30/ Georgia on my mind (not the version played on the OC, but the one singed by Ray Charles) http://www.filefactory.com/file/0bfd69/ Sydney 2000 The Man from Snowy River (at the beggining of the Opening Ceremony) http://www.filefactory.com/file/1294f7/ Olympic Fanfare performed by Swing City, at the entrance of Samaranch & the General Gouvernor of Australia. http://www.filefactory.com/file/3d50d9/ Salt Lake 2002 Fragile, by Sting (without the violin guy) http://www.filefactory.com/file/c62d24/ Manchester 2002 (Commonwealth Games) Dont Stop Movin', by S Club 7 (opening ceremony) http://www.filefactory.com/file/131971/ Athens 2004 Adagio for Strings, by DJ Tiesto (Parade of the Athletes) http://www.filefactory.com/file/ee7059/ I didn't post Oceania of Bjork for obvious reasons xD PD: If the files appears without extension, rename them and write, at the end of the name, ''.mp3'' 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olympian2004 Posted August 22, 2006 Report Share Posted August 22, 2006 Thanks for all those files and links! I have another one -- it's the official fanfare of the Munich 1972 Games. http://www.olympia72.de/olympia-fanfare.mp3 It originates from a great website about those Games, by the way. But sadly, that website is in German only. Here are some more links from that Munich 1972 website: The beginning of Kurt Edelhagen's arrangement for the parade of nations: http://www.olympia72.de/ouvertuere.mp3 The end of the arrangement: http://www.olympia72.de/finale.mp3 Finally, the "Munich Fanfare March" performed by Günter Noris and the Bundeswehr (Federal Army) Big Band at the closing ceremony: http://www.olympia72.de/march.mp3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
savas Posted August 22, 2006 Report Share Posted August 22, 2006 Here you can see and hear the "Countdwon" and "The Drums" of the "Athens 2004" Opening Ceremony... just amazing... Athens 2004 - The Countdown ...and the Double Helix "DNA" theme Athens 2004 - Double Helix Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rafa Posted August 22, 2006 Report Share Posted August 22, 2006 julian scott rocks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rav3n Posted August 22, 2006 Author Report Share Posted August 22, 2006 Barcelona 1992 Mediterrean Sea (El Mar Mediterrani), by Ryuichi Sakamoto (also composer of the OST for the movie ''The Last Emperor''), during the sea battle segment. This is a collection of the Olympic anthems played at the ceremonies Sydney 2000 http://210.218.40.142/~gwakdh/music/mu40.mp3 Nagano 1998 http://dbaalss.nationalanthems.us/anthems/...c_Hymn_v_jp.zip Salt Lake City 2002 http://users.atw.hu/szbszig/olympics%20(english).mp3 Lillehammer 1994 http://www.nationalanthems.us/anthems/Olym...m-Norwegian.zip Albertville 1992 (a video that shows the version of the anthem played at a medal ceremony) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxxP9zGs6eQ...edal%20ceremony Moscow 1980 http://users.atw.hu/szbszig/olympics%20(russian).mp3 I'm now downloading the song used for the Sydney 2000 cauldron lighting. When i finally have it i'll post a link to download it =P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rav3n Posted August 22, 2006 Author Report Share Posted August 22, 2006 Sorry,i forgot to put the link to the Mediterrean Sea, here it is: http://www.filefactory.com/file/ddbfc2/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
savas Posted August 23, 2006 Report Share Posted August 23, 2006 Here is the amazing part of the Ceremony "Klepsydra". The part of the parade of the greek history from ancient times to modern times. the song composed by one of the best (in my opinion) artist of electronic music Konstantinos Vita Athns 2004 - Klepsydra Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
micheal_warren Posted August 24, 2006 Report Share Posted August 24, 2006 great thanks for all the links!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Athensfan Posted August 27, 2006 Report Share Posted August 27, 2006 As far as I'm aware no CD of the Athens Opening Ceremonies was ever released. Does anybody know how I might be able to get recordings of the music? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
christos Posted September 4, 2006 Report Share Posted September 4, 2006 Here you can see and hear the "Countdwon" and "The Drums" of the "Athens 2004" Opening Ceremony... just amazing...Athens 2004 - The Countdown ...and the Double Helix "DNA" theme Athens 2004 - Double Helix Where you can download these files??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
christos Posted September 6, 2006 Report Share Posted September 6, 2006 Does anybody have the music played in Athens, during medal ceremony? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PYRROS2004 Posted September 6, 2006 Report Share Posted September 6, 2006 It's the same person that composed the 'Fanfares' when Gianna entered the stadium. He's a greek living in Australia, but I don't remember his name at the moment. Although Dimitris Papaioannou wanted to release a CD with the music of the ceremonies, there is a legal problem with the copyright that he signed with IOC when he took over the ceremonies. So probably we must IOC if they plan to release a CD with the music. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
christos Posted September 6, 2006 Report Share Posted September 6, 2006 After two years, is it possible? Thanks anyway PYRROS2004 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
christos Posted September 7, 2006 Report Share Posted September 7, 2006 What was the music in Athens Ceremony, at the tribute to Olympic cities and when Nikos Kaklamanakis lights the cauldron? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olympian2004 Posted September 7, 2006 Report Share Posted September 7, 2006 What was the music in Athens Ceremony, at the tribute to Olympic cities and when Nikos Kaklamanakis lights the cauldron? The two pieces were called "Torch Journey Around the World" and "Pyros 1" by John Psathas, the guy from New Zealand (not Australia) who also composed the fanfares for the opening ceremony and the medal ceremony music. You can look up all infos about the pieces played at Athens' opening ceremony here: http://home.iprimus.com.au/beethoven2001/thegames/ (click at the banner "Athens Special") And just one request: In case you have some more questions about Olympic musical pieces, could you please open a new topic for those? Because this topic here is about posting links to musical pieces. Thus it's quite annoying for me (and others) to look forward to the (supposedly) new links whenever someone has made a new post in this topic and then it turns out to be just another question, and not a link. Thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
christos Posted September 7, 2006 Report Share Posted September 7, 2006 OK thanks and ....sorry for this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rav3n Posted September 10, 2006 Author Report Share Posted September 10, 2006 A little gift for all gamebidders: The COMPLETE OST of Sydney 2000 opening ceremony: http://www.filefactory.com/file/62aedd/ Does someone have the Melbourne 2006 OC Soundtrack or a link to download it?. I remember someone posted the version of The Church ''Under the Milky Way'' played at the opening ceremony and ''Dont dream it's over'' on the closing, but i can't found the tracks anymore. If someone have the OST please upload it to www.filefactory.com. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LinkParkFn Posted September 10, 2006 Report Share Posted September 10, 2006 I already have the cds for the Sydney Opening and Melbourne Opening and Closing, but this is pretty nice, though every time I tried to open Tin Symphony there was an error message, so if anyone has that I hope they'd consider uploading it. Thanks though. Here's a few tracks: Sarah Blasko-Don't Dream It's Over http://www.filefactory.com/file/566413/ The Church-Under the Milky Way http://www.filefactory.com/file/c4820d/ Grinspoon-Hard Act to Follow http://www.filefactory.com/file/f140bc/ Claudio Bagliani- Va (Go) http://www.filefactory.com/file/f140bc/ Inno Italiano-Torino 2006 http://www.filefactory.com/file/df951c/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olympian2004 Posted July 14, 2007 Report Share Posted July 14, 2007 What was the music in Athens Ceremony, at the tribute to Olympic cities and when Nikos Kaklamanakis lights the cauldron? I have to correct my former statement that those two pieces by John Psathas are called "Torch Journey Around The World" and "Pyros 1". It seems as if those two were only the names for the segments, but not for the corresponding music. In fact, the music for the torch journey segment was an arrangement of Claude Debussy's "King Lear" fanfare (and thus not a composition by John Psathas himself). And the music during the lighting of the cauldron was Psathas' arrangement of Dimitri Shostakovich's "Pirogov". You can look those infos up here: YouTube clip of the 'Torch Journey Around The World' segment in Athens and YouTube clip of the cauldron lighting in Athens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
christos Posted July 15, 2007 Report Share Posted July 15, 2007 Thanks! these days I made many pieces of opening and closing ceremony as mp3 as we will not have any official cd with the music.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rei Posted July 15, 2007 Report Share Posted July 15, 2007 I don't know if that was mentioned before but did anybody ever notice how the Torino2006 anthem "Va" sounds pretty similar to the former URSS hymn? Take a hear and judge! Torino2006 anthem preceded by the olympic anthem Former URSS hymn The resemblance was unveiled by the italian satiric tv program "Le Iene" which realised this interview with Claudio Balgioni, Torino2006 anthem's composer Youtube-Baglioni a Le Iene Could that have been a presage of a future russian winter host? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Westfale Posted July 15, 2007 Report Share Posted July 15, 2007 All the mp3s on filefactory are no longer available to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Filipe_Golias Posted July 16, 2007 Report Share Posted July 16, 2007 I don't know if that was mentioned before but did anybody ever notice how the Torino2006 anthem "Va" sounds pretty similar to the former URSS hymn?Take a hear and judge! Torino2006 anthem preceded by the olympic anthem Former URSS hymn The resemblance was unveiled by the italian satiric tv program "Le Iene" which realised this interview with Claudio Balgioni, Torino2006 anthem's composer Youtube-Baglioni a Le Iene Could that have been a presage of a future russian winter host? Didn't realize that because Torino's anthem didn't glue to my mind. But there is a portion of "Va" that is scarily similar to the former USSR (now Russian anthem) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LinkParkFn Posted July 16, 2007 Report Share Posted July 16, 2007 Would anyone be illing to repost some of them, including the ones I uploaded(since I have no idea which cd I saved them on)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
christos Posted July 16, 2007 Report Share Posted July 16, 2007 Fanfare of Olympic Oath, Athens opening ceremony of John Psathas http://rapidshare.com/files/43195610/oath.mp3.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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