The most over-used music for figure skating programs

Question- has a man or a team ever used it?

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Wicked said:

Carmen. Too many ladies have used this. Question- has a man or a team ever used it?

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Wicked said:

Carmen. Too many ladies have used this. Question- has a man or a team ever used it?

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evangeline said:

I voted for Carmen too. Isn't there an unspoken rule that every skater must skate to Carmen once in their lifetime?



Off the top of my head: Evgeni Plushenko, Alexei Yagudin, Evan Lysacek, Navka/Kostamarov, Dube/Davsion, Krylova/Ovsyannikov......ugh, the list goes on.

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Joubert has done too much Matrix music

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Layfan said:

But one thing I'll say: Sasha skated to about half the music on your list. But everytime she did she made it seem like it was the first time anyone had skated to it.

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ImaginaryPogue said:

Carmen is probably the correct answer, but I'm gonna go with Others. I love Mansell's music, but why is Requiem for a Dream suddenly so popular. C/L, DomShabs, P/B, D/D, Javier Fernandez. I understand it's appeal (again, it's on my iPod), but with so much music out there, rather disappointing to see so many go to this well (though I will say I enjoy C/L and D/D's programs quite a bit).

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bigsisjiejie said:

Wow, there is such an abundance of tired old chestnuts that a brief poll can't do it justice. To expand, here is BigSis' list of prohibitions for future skating music selections:

No skater in any discipline shall use the following for SP or FS:
Carmen
Tosca
Nutcracker
Swan Lake
Firebird
Scheherezade
Dark Eyes
West Side Story
Tango de Roxanne
Phantom of the Opera POTO
Bolero (unless your name is Torvill & Dean)
Matrix (if your name is Joubert)
Kalinka (if you are Russian)
Butterfly Lovers (if you are Chinese)

Additional restrictions on Pairs/Dance. There shall be NO:
Nessum Dorma
Turandot (unless your name is Shen & Zhao)
Adagio in G Minor by Albinoni

Feel free to add to this list!

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evangeline said:

This is a very good point--Sasha constantly uses these warhorses, but her programs to them often are very memorable (e.g. Dark Eyes, Malaguena, Romeo and Juliet). I think this, above all, makes the difference to me--I don't mind watching warhorse programs if the skater brings something of their own to the music. It's just when skaters like Evan Lysacek use the same old tired pieces of music as background noise does the use of warhorses become annoying.

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bigsisjiejie said:

Wow, there is such an abundance of tired old chestnuts that a brief poll can't do it justice. To expand, here is BigSis' list of prohibitions for future skating music selections:

No skater in any discipline shall use the following for SP or FS:
Carmen
Tosca
Nutcracker
Swan Lake
Firebird
Scheherezade
Dark Eyes
West Side Story
Tango de Roxanne
Phantom of the Opera POTO
Bolero (unless your name is Torvill & Dean)
Matrix (if your name is Joubert)
Kalinka (if you are Russian)
Butterfly Lovers (if you are Chinese)

Additional restrictions on Pairs/Dance. There shall be NO:
Nessum Dorma
Turandot (unless your name is Shen & Zhao)
Adagio in G Minor by Albinoni

Feel free to add to this list!

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evangeline said:

I don't mind watching warhorse programs if the skater brings something of their own to the music. It's just when skaters...use the same old tired pieces of music as background noise does the use of warhorses become annoying.

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Mathman said:

According to this site, Carmen has no rival

http://www.skatemusiclist.com/index.html#general

http://www.skatemusiclist.com/all_c.html

Some skaters who have medaled at major championships with Carmen:

Mao Asada
Sasha Cohen
Silvia Fontana
Don Jackson
Linda Fratianne
Beatrisa Liang
Katarina Witt
Moiseeva & Minenkov
Lang & Tchernyshev
Manuela Ruben
Yvonne Pokorny
Fumie Suguri
Editha Dotson
Charlie Tickner
Bestemianova & Bukin
Gordeeva & Grinkov
Evan Lysacek
Charlie Tickner
Emily Hughes
Eric Millot
Julia Sebestyen
Navka & Kostomarov
Stephan Yvars
Oleg Tataurov
John Curry
Cynthia Lemaire
Cecelia Gauvin
Yu-Na Kim
Debi Thomas
Victor Petrenko
Krylova & Ovsiannikov
Michelle Kwan
Evgeny Plushenko
Irina Slutskaya
Michael Weiss
Yamato Tamura
Denise Benning & Lyndon Johnston (before he became president of the United States )
Nicole Watt
Sergei Rylov
Heather Kemkaran
Sessions & Williams
Alexei Yagudin
Andrei Griazev
Marina Kiellman
Maria Butyrskaya
Valentina Marchei
Kawaguchi & Markuntsov
Elena Liashenko
Delobel & Schoenfelder
Nicholas Young
Blair Smith
Claudia Villiger
Alice Sue Claeys
Monte & Lapointe
Marie Luc Jodoein

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Mathman said:

According to this site, Carmen has no rival

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