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Skaters who have used classical ballet music

skateluvr

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If possible can you find youtube from any era that skaters use classical ballet music? It would be fun to see how different skaters interpret same music over time. TY.
 

Sam-Skwantch

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I love Pas De Duex!!! I listen to it on my way to the rink almost every day.
 

sunnystars

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Interesting thread! It's kinda hard to find some videos since ballet music is overused in fs so I'll just post some that I know of and watched

The Swan from Les Carnival des Animeux
Soyoun Park - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B323weVSdRU
Alissa Czisny - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hs6ZlAI2HE8
Satoko Miyahara - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uN7Y4Et7hNs
Kavaguti/Smirnov - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ua9JK05mOn0

The Protopopovs - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amlhlyKN9QE
Oksana Baiul - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZVsSoyMXdU

Oh and here is Ulyana Lopatkina - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-T2UeKKac-s

Anyone interested in doing Scheherazade or Giselle? :laugh:

EDIT: OH HEEEY! I found more people skating to it!
 
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Glazunov's The Seasons is a ballet, and that's the music that Virtue/Moir used for their free dance this year.

John Curry and Viktor Petrenko both skated to Don Quichotte (Don Quixote) by Minkus.

Annissina and Piezerat skated to Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet.

Several skaters have used music from Spartacus by Aram Khachaturian, includiing Bechke and Petrov.
 

skatedreamer

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Oksana Baiul was never one of my favorites, but the "Dying Swan" program linked above by sunny_skates is truly something special. IIRC, she used it @ the '94 Olys. I was rooting for Nancy Kerrigan but the "Swan" reconciled me to Oksana winning the OGM. :)
 

TheCzar

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Mao Asada's Swan Lake was beautiful- particularly her step sequence. That I took as her interpreting Odile's fouettes.
 

gkelly

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Alba

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This is a truly beautiful piece with great highs and lows in the tune!! No one has used it?! ...That just seems to good to be true...

Sometimes I think the FS world is quite ignorant when it comes to music, even with classic music that is used so much.
 
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Sometimes I think the FS world is quite ignorant when it comes to music, even with cassic music that is used so much.

I think you're right. I don't know about the coaches and choreographers (I am fairly sure that Lori Nichol for one is familiar with a wide range of music), but I suspect that in the U.S. at least, the skaters themselves don't get exposed to classical music unless their families make a point of it. (I once interviewed a skater who told me that her favorite composer was Yanni. In her defense, she was a junior-age skater at the time.) In my own experience, I was very familiar with classical music as a child and a teenager because Mom had the classical radio station on nonstop. I loved it from an early age, probably as a result of this early acquaintance with it. My friend was knowledgeable because her father was a music professor. Beyond that, few people among my friends had any familiarity with it, even including the ones who took piano lessons. (They just learned the pieces they were playing, and that was it.) It's just not part of the fabric anymore in this country. Of course I can't speak for European or Asian countries, where this form of music is more highly respected.

Alba, I know that you have actually studied music, so you and I are on the same side in this. (Except that you're far more knowledgeable!) Maybe they should hire people like us and other GS members as consultants. We'd beef up the repertoire pretty quickly.

ETA: On this topic, I think a lot of Americans of today would be astonished to learn that some of the regular radio stations in this country used to play a lot more classical music, because it was considered important to the culture. NBC actually had its own orchestra, the NBC Symphony. Its conductor during its lifespan (1937 to 1954) was no less than Arturo Toscanini. The Wiki article lists an impressive list of guest conductors, as well. This orchestra was a commitment from the top down (David Sarnoff, the network chairman, spearheaded this project) to enrich the cultural lives or ordinary people.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC_Symphony_Orchestra
 
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ETA: On this topic, I think a lot of Americans of today would be astonished to learn that some of the regular radio stations in this country used to play a lot more classical music, because it was considered important to the culture. NBC actually had its own orchestra, the NBC Symphony. Its conductor during its lifespan (1937 to 1954) was no less than Arturo Toscanini. The Wiki article lists an impressive list of guest conductors, as well. This orchestra was a commitment from the top down (David Sarnoff, the network chairman, spearheaded this project) to enrich the cultural lives or ordinary people.

I remember those "Symphony of the Air" broadcasts when I was in grade school. They were broadcast during school hours and piped into the classrooms. That was our music lesson for the day. :yes: (Yes, I am that old. ;) )
 
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