Best music for a skater's/couple's 'Swan Song'
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At this point it might be getting a rap as a warhorse (very mildly), but "Feeling Good" (any version, really) is an interesting way to end a career.
It can be used to begin a new career like I/M this season, but I remember it very fondly for its use in another sport. Sandra Izbasa used it in 2013 for the last competitive floor routine of her career at the gymnastics world championships in Antwerp. It was supposed to be her crowning moment after her 2-time OGM accomplishments as well as playing a huge role in helping Romania earn bronze team medals in Beijing and London. Kind of sad that she would have won a world medal until her last pass, but oh well. The song speaks of new beginnings.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0mASe6fU-M
It can be used to begin a new career like I/M this season, but I remember it very fondly for its use in another sport. Sandra Izbasa used it in 2013 for the last competitive floor routine of her career at the gymnastics world championships in Antwerp. It was supposed to be her crowning moment after her 2-time OGM accomplishments as well as playing a huge role in helping Romania earn bronze team medals in Beijing and London. Kind of sad that she would have won a world medal until her last pass, but oh well. The song speaks of new beginnings.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0mASe6fU-M
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Literally The Swan/ Dying Swan as a swan song, or Sinantra's My Way for a more masculine skater. Or just Plushenko it and do a ''Best of me medley''. Could be a bit egotistical, but when you have a career like his, I'd say it's perfectly fine.
Although if I was a competing skater, I'd probably be a crappy one. So I'd just skate to something ridiculous, maybe cross dress and skate to Sweet Transvestite/Time Warp from Rocky Horror or a Whitney Houston medley.
Although if I was a competing skater, I'd probably be a crappy one. So I'd just skate to something ridiculous, maybe cross dress and skate to Sweet Transvestite/Time Warp from Rocky Horror or a Whitney Houston medley.
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I liked Delobel/Schoenfelder's FD in 2010 to La Quete.
Coming back from injury and pregnancy, an Olympic medal was an "impossible dream" for them. The program is lovely, though.
Coming back from injury and pregnancy, an Olympic medal was an "impossible dream" for them. The program is lovely, though.
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"Is That All There Is?" by Peggy Lee 
Oh yes. That was very great music.
In that similiar note- Pang and Tong's free program to io ci saro is divine.
Weirdly, I thought their Les Miz program was the perfect swan song, but this new one is wonderful too! We are blessed to have this pair around, even if they probably won't win a medal in Shanghai. Just beautiful, expressive skating.
"Moonlight Sonata" was so perfect for Gordeeva/Grinkov. Ditto "A Man and a Woman" for Klimova/Ponomarenko. Beautiful, mature, reflective of their journeys and their relationships. I can't articulate what made those programs so magical, but they were divine.
I'd also add "Where Have All the Flowers Gone" for Katarina Witt, both as a comeback and a swan song. What a moving tribute to the people of Sarajevo. It felt like her career had come full circle.
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I wholeheartedly agree. I'm not much into The Little Prince (I read it as a child, but that's all), but P/B's free dance moved me so much when they performed it at Olympics and Worlds.
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Withnail's Theme from Withnail and I soundtrack would be suited for a splendid farewell performance.
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Easily the best free dance of the IJS era. In my opinion, of course.
Their Saitama performance was perfection on ice. Sad they never got the respect they deserved.
I think that Barbara Underhill and Paul Martini (my all-time favorite pair) did it perfectly when they did their farewell gala in 1996:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkKAW1RQy9s
To Sondhiem's "Not A Day Goes By" - my apologies that it's cut off in the beginning; I couldn't find a better copy than this one. This always puts a lump in my throat :-(
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkKAW1RQy9s
To Sondhiem's "Not A Day Goes By" - my apologies that it's cut off in the beginning; I couldn't find a better copy than this one. This always puts a lump in my throat :-(
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THe Final Countdown might be a good lively choice - didn't Valova and Vasiliev do that near the end of their careers (I thought I saw a video to that affect); Yesterday (Beatles), Unforgettable, Pray for Me (Here is where the road divides; Here is where we realize the Sculpting of the father's great design, but I know the road he chose for me is not the road he chose for you) by Michael W SMith or Friends (Cause a life time's not to long to live as friends) done by Michael W Smith are kind of nice, emotional songs to say farewell for Christians, We are the Champions or that song from the Sound of Music - something about goodbye, farewell...GOod night.
