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Music that reminds you of skater(s)/programs

Vash01

Medalist
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Jul 31, 2003
I don't believe that any skater or skaters can 'own' a music, no matter how great the skating was. However, when I listen to a certain piece of music, it brings up memories of a certain skater or pair/dance team. It is not necessarily their ONLY signature piece.

Here is my list:

Bolero - T&D (obviously)
Moonlight Sonata- G&G
'Meditation' from Thais- B&S
Rachmaninoff's 2nd- M&D (many others have skated to it, but M&D come before MY eyes when I listen to it)
Rachmaninoff's 3rd- Michelle Kwan
Swan Lake- B&S (again, many have skated to it, but they are the ones I think of)
Carmen- Katarina Witt
Sex Bomb-Plushenko
Reverie- G&G
Love Story- S&P
Four Seasons-Usova-Zhulin
Memorial- Grishchuk & Platov
Charlie Chaplin music (Limelight, Charlie's theme, etc.)- B&S
Bach's 'Air'- Klimova-Ponomarenko
Lieberstraum-M&D
Gladiator-Yagudin
Karl Jenkin's Diamond music- S&Z
Josh Groban's 'Let me Fall'- B&S
Salome- Michelle Kwan
Vocalise-G&G
You don't bring me flowers-Bechke & Petrov
Turandot-Shizuka Arakawa

There are lots more, but let me hear yours.

Vash
 
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BronzeisGolden

Medalist
Joined
Jul 27, 2003
Here are mine:

"Four Seasons" - Surya Bonaly
"Claire de Lune" - Chen Lu
"Spartacus" - Watson & Oppegard
"Carmen" - Katarina Witt
"Turandot" - S&Z
"1492: Conquest of Paradise" - Elvis Stojko
"Lyra Angelica" - Michelle Kwan
"Rhapsody in Blue" - Ilya Kulik
"Samson & Delilah" - Kristi Yamaguchi
"Send in the Clowns/Wild Thing" - Tonya Harding....who else? :D
"Riverdance" - Bourne & Kraatz
"Moonlight Sonata" - G&G
"Libestraum" - M&D
"Malaguena" - Kristi Yamaguchi
"Anastasia" - Tara Lipinski
"East of Eden" - Michelle Kwan
"Glory" - Todd Eldredge
"Swan Lake" - Rudy Galindo
 
Joined
Jul 11, 2003
"Don Q" - John Curry - who skated the best of that tune!!

C'mon, am I the the only one over 40 in this forum? :laugh:

Joe
 

thisthingcalledlove

Final Flight
Joined
Sep 24, 2003
Joesitz said:
"Don Q" - John Curry - who skated the best of that tune!!

C'mon, am I the the only one over 40 in this forum? :laugh:

Joe

ITA agree with you, Joe. That was the best interpretation of that music...my old coach used to insist that we watch anything John Curry.

Vash is right. When Abt skated to Rachmaninoff's 3rd, I thought of Michelle, and not him =(

Likewise, whenever I watch Sense and Sensibility, I think of Tara Lipinski.
 

Piel

On Edge
Record Breaker
Joined
Jul 27, 2003
Joesitz said:
C'mon, am I the the only one over 40 in this forum? :laugh:

Joe

Oops, didn't you get the memo that we are all staying 29 forever? ;) :D :laugh:
 

Grgranny

Da' Spellin' Homegirl
Joined
Jul 26, 2003
Joe, maybe your the only one that can remember. :laugh:
I don't think I ever saw him. "Back in the olden times", I never knew when anything was on, that is, after my husband finally decided we could get a tv set.
 

hrmsk8ngnutt

Final Flight
Joined
Jul 29, 2003
Here's what comes to my mind right now:

The Man I Love, Ella Fitzgerald - G/G
Fields of Gold, Eva Cassidy - Michelle Kwan
Brick House, Commodores - Kurt Browning
Blue Danube - Kristi Yamaguchi
Schindler's List - Paul Wylie
Butterfly Lovers - Lu Chen
Liebestraum - Mishkutienok/Dmitriev
Dr. Zhivago - Nicole Bobek
Lawrence of Arabia - Alexei Yagudin
Take Five - T/D
Rhapsody in Blue - Ilia Kulik

Herm (sk8ngnutt)
 

Vash01

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Joined
Jul 31, 2003
Butterfly Lovers- Oh yes! I was at an Asian festival here- sort of a cutural exchange where local kids & adults perform art forms from their culture, and they have shopping tents, etc. At one point I just stopped because I heard Butterfly Lovers being played in the background. I was sure I was the only one non-Chinese that knew that music instantly, and of course Lulu's skate in the 98 Oly was going through my mind.
 

thisthingcalledlove

Final Flight
Joined
Sep 24, 2003
Vash01 said:
Butterfly Lovers- Oh yes! I was at an Asian festival here- sort of a cutural exchange where local kids & adults perform art forms from their culture, and they have shopping tents, etc. At one point I just stopped because I heard Butterfly Lovers being played in the background. I was sure I was the only one non-Chinese that knew that music instantly, and of course Lulu's skate in the 98 Oly was going through my mind.

the same thing happened to me in a chinese restaurant. i'm asian (filipino) but it isn't known to many other asians, except chinese, or skating fans. when the waitress (she was older) came by, i discussed the music with her. she told me the legend...
 

Kuchana

On the Ice
Joined
Sep 25, 2004
First Knight - Todd Elderage
Romanza - Michelle Kwan
I can't remember the name of the music but it was the LP in '94 - Mishkutienok/Dmitriev
Dream of Desdemona - Michelle Kwan
Dante's Prayer - Michelle Kwan
 

Eeyora

Final Flight
Joined
Aug 4, 2003
Moonlight Sonata: Gordeeva + Grinkov
Bolero: Torvill + Dean(However I can't listen without anticipation of Michelles new program)
Liebestraum: M+D
Love Story: S+B
Meditation: B+S
Tosca: It is funny some parts of the music makes me think of Irina. Other parts make me think of Michelle
Sleeping Beauty: Angela Nikodinov
Rach Piano Concerto #3 Finale: Michelle Kwan
The Red Violin: Michelle Kwan
Blue Danube: Kristi Yamaguchi
Aranjuez: Michelle Kwan
The Swan: Oksana Baiul
Little Women Soundtrack: Tara Lipinski
On My Own: Michelle Kwan
Four Seasons: Surya Bonaly
It's So Quiet: Kristi Yamaguchi
American In Paris: Timothy Goebel
Music of The Night: Brian Boitano
Simple Gifts: Brian Boitano
The Godfather: Philippe Candeloro
Otonal: Maria Butyrskaya
Scene' de Amour: Maria Butyskaya
Rach Piano Concerto#2: Chen Lu
Salome: Michelle Kwan
A Day in the Life: Michelle Kwan
The Man I love: G+G
Henry V: Paul Wylie
This is the Moment: Paul Wylie
Fields of Gold (Any Version): Michelle Kwan
Dragon: Elvis Stojko
Somwhere/One/The Rain in Spain etc: Oksana Baiul
Winter: Michelle Kwan
Serenade: Irina Slutskaya
Gladiator: Alexei Yagudin
Lawrence of Arabia: Alexei Yagudin
Man in the Iron Mask: Alexei Yagudin
I did not list East of Eden, Romanza or Lyra Angelica because I have never heard them other than when Michelle Kwan skates to them. This is the same reason why I didn't list Winter for Alexei Yagudin , St Petersburg 300 for Plushenko, or Just for You for Angela.
 

Ladskater

~ Figure Skating Is My Passion ~
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Jul 28, 2003
Casablanca - "As Time Goes By" and "Singing in the Rain" - Kurt Browning; also "Bonzo's Montreux "

I Pagliaci and "Too Beautiful To Last" and Firebird - Toller Cranston

The Bolt; "The Story of My Life" and "Somewhere in Time" theme - Brian Orser

The music from the Mission and "Stairway to Heaven" - Elvis Stojko


This is all I can come up with right now. Too tired.
 

Ximena

Final Flight
Joined
Jul 26, 2003
Something that have happened to me thanks to FS is that I know can recognize a lot of pieces of music and know who composed them. I have always love classical music but I always had problems knowing the exact name of it. Funny is that when I hear a piece of music from the TV in a commercial, or movie or it's a question in a program or thinks like that, I said the asnwer and I always ended being stared at and asked "how do you know that??". But then again, yes well some of the pieces are not very well known but c'mon for to not know who composed Swan Lake??

I restrained myself of answering to the actual question of this thread after realized that when I think Bolero, I think Plushenko. So now I have to run a duck from all of those who can't believe that I don't think of T&D... sorry, but I started watching FS seriously after Olys and I just have seen some of the programs before that, I watched T&D Bolero on May I think.
 

Vash01

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Jul 31, 2003
Kuchana said:
First Knight - Todd Elderage
Romanza - Michelle Kwan
I can't remember the name of the music but it was the LP in '94 - Mishkutienok/Dmitriev
Dream of Desdemona - Michelle Kwan
Dante's Prayer - Michelle Kwan

M&D's LP in '94 was skated to Rachmaninoff's 2nd piano concerto. It was on my list.

Vash
 

Vash01

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Jul 31, 2003
Eeyora said:
I did not list East of Eden, Romanza or Lyra Angelica because I have never heard them other than when Michelle Kwan skates to them. This is the same reason why I didn't list Winter for Alexei Yagudin , St Petersburg 300 for Plushenko, or Just for You for Angela.

That is exactly why I did not list many of Michelle's (e.g. EOE, SOTBS, Fields of Gold, Lyra Angelica, etc.) and B&S's numbers because they were the only ones to skate to them (e.g. Radetzky march, sentimental waltz, concert for coloratura, Happy valley), although I do see them skating whenever I listen to the music.

Vash
 

Jaana

Record Breaker
Joined
Jul 27, 2003
Country
Finland
Don Quijote - John Curry (unfortunately I don´t remember what music he used in earlier programmes which I actually liked a lot more as programmes)
Kalinka - Rodnina & Zaitshev
Bolero - Torvill & Dean
Swan Lake - Oksana Baiul
When The Feeling Begins - Gritshuk & Platov
Godfather - Philippe Candeloro
Sex Bomb - Plushenko, LOL
Moonlight Sonata - Gordeeva & Grinkov
Turandot - Shen & Zhao and Shizuka Arakawa
Tosca - Krylova & Ovsiannikov
Masquerade Waltz - Krylova & Ovsiannikov
Nutcracker - Shen & Zhao
Barcelona - Berezhnaya & Sikharulidze
Man in the Iron Mask - Anissina & Peizerat
Con te Partiro - Anissina & Peizerat
Carmina Burana - Paul Wylie

and Ilia Kulik for

An American in Paris
Addams Family
Aladdin
Liebestraume
Romeo & Juliet (Tsaikovski)
Rhapsody in Blue

Marjaana
 

iluvtodd

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Joined
Mar 5, 2004
Country
United-States
Brian B. - Music of the Night
Brian O. - The Story of My Life
Todd - First Knight, Il Mare Calmo della Sera
Elvis - Dragon
Kurt - Brickhouse
Michelle - Salome, Dante's Prayer
G&G - The Man I Love
Plushy - Sex Bomb! :laugh:
Paul - JFK, Carmina Burana
 

miffy

Rinkside
Joined
Aug 15, 2003
Scene D'amour - Maria Butyrskaya
Nutrocker - Alexei Yagudin
Rock Around the Clock - Grishuk & Platov
Carmina Burana - Anissina & Peizerat
Parisienne Walkways -Lang & Tchernyshev
 

Eliza

Rinkside
Joined
Sep 7, 2003
Joe - you aren't the only person over 40 here. :laugh:

One of the first bits of music I thought of was Don Q & John Curry.

Others associations I make are:

Wylie - Carmina Burana & Henry V

Yagudin - Winter, Man in the Iron Mask

Eldredge - Gethsemane

Mishketounek & Dmitriev - Rachmaninoff Sym #2 - so many people have used it, but I still think of them when I hear it anywhere.

Torvill & Dean - Bolero

I'm sure there are others. This is all I can think of right now (without looking at all the other posts for reminders :laugh: )

eliza
 
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