Actually they dare not choose the most difficult classical music piece to skate to. Try Beethoven Sym 7 movement 2. Or some Bruckner, lol.
Do you mind sharing me the video? I love that movement and so sad no one ever chose it as their competitive program.
Wonderful. Thank you so much. I hope one day some skater will choose this movement as well.
Hmm. There are many pieces of classical music with changing time signatures and tempos that are not steady (rubato!!!). I agree with you that certain time periods of music are likely to be easily skateable (some Baroque, Classical, early to mid Romantic period), though of course there are anamolies within each period - but once you get to maybe the early 1900s when people like Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Schoenburg, and Stravinsky are writing music, atonality became much more common. And I think atonal pieces are very difficult to skate to. Even outside of atonal music there's lots of stuff that I honestly could never see anyone pulling off. For example, some of Ravel's works. Of course, everyone knows Bolero as Ravel's most famous, but my favorites of his are Gaspard de la Nuit, the Miroirs, Daphnis et Chloe, Jeux D'eau. I know skaters have used Daphnis et Chloe before (Hughes, Oda) but the others I'm not sure if anyone will ever skate to and pull off.
There are subtle changes to the meter that can't easily be counted out but instead felt from the inside. I always could hear my conductor let out a deep breath as we approached musical variances of rythym.
Indeed, that's why I don't get it why skater never choose this movement.There are plenty of difficult classical music to skate to. Not only to express them, the interpretation, but also for the choreography.
The 2 movement of Beethoven's 7, it's not difficult for skating.
The second it's a slow movement (well, allegretto) and the principal theme is stated four times, at full length, between the first violins, then second violins and the progression culminates with the woodwind sections with heavy crescendo and a climax.
It's indeed a good music for the Ice Dancing.
Now, Bruckner is a total different story.
