Anthem for the Millenium: Bob Marley's "One Love" sung by Ziggy Marley
& The Gipsy Kings...
Anthem for the Millennium:
Bob Marley's 'One Love' Sung By Ziggy Marley & The Gipsy Kings Is the Anthem
to Worldwide New Year's Eve
Broadcasting
Single
Available Exclusively On Sony Classical's '2000 Today - A World Symphony For The
Millennium,' With Original Score By Celebrated Composer Tan
Dun
Live
Performances: The Gipsy Kings Will Perform 'One Love' From Miami, Florida and
Tan Dun Will Conduct the BBC Orchestra from
London
NEW YORK, Dec. 22
/PRNewswire/ -- "One Love," the global anthem for a new millennium, is the new
multi-lingual version of Bob Marley's reggae classic sung by Ziggy Marley, The
Gipsy Kings, Tsidii Le Loka (acclaimed South African vocalist) and members of
the Boys Choir of Harlem. The single is available exclusively on the Sony
Classical soundtrack 2000 Today, official soundtrack to the MILLENNIUM 2000
broadcast event featuring the original score by celebrated composer Tan
Dun.
Tan's score will be the centerpiece
for the television programming. His scoring reflects the multicultural breadth
of the project, utilizing instruments ranging from banjo, electric guitar and
penny whistle to erhu, koto djembe, paiku and
stones.
On the morning of December 31,
1999, MILLENNIUM 2000 will begin -- the most ambitious television production
ever mounted. The broadcast will cross 24 time zones during 26 hours of
programming and has a potential global audience of
billions.
Live on ABC and PBS across the
United States. Worldwide on the BBC.
The
Gipsy Kings will perform ``One Love'' live from Miami on New Years Eve -- at
11:57 EST on PBS.
Tan Dun will conduct
with the BBC Concert Orchestra in London performing the overture & finale to
``A World Symphony for the
Millennium.''
This unprecedented
collaboration between 57 worldwide broadcasters will follow the celebrations as
millennium events unfold -- from Chile to Japan, Auckland to Miami, France to
Fiji, the MILLENNIUM 2000 broadcast even will unite parties and prayers around
the whole world as the sun sets on the twentieth century and rises on a new
Millennium.
SOURCE: Sony
Classical
Posted: Mon - February 3, 2003 at 12:00 AM