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- Jun 21, 2003
Well, following Joe's post quoted above, I think the point can be made like this.
We have no realistic expectation that teenaged athletes (many of them home schooled) would have any knowledge of music at all, and even less interest in acquiring any.
Those "middlebrow" sing-along classics like Carmen -- well, I think Joe is right to say that you can just sort of swing along to the beat -- "Tor-e-a-do-ra, bump-de-dump-de-dum" -- and then when you are resting between jumps you can click air castanets (ladies) or wave air cape (gentlemen).
-- Which is better than skating to no music at all. (I live in perpetual hope that someone will attempt Cage's 4'33" -- I think the reason no one has taken it on is that for a men's LP you would have to cut off 3 seconds.)
I think it is telling that Evan Lysacek (after doing Carmen for his LP last season) chose for his exhibition number, "the last three songs on my ipod."
MM
We have no realistic expectation that teenaged athletes (many of them home schooled) would have any knowledge of music at all, and even less interest in acquiring any.
Those "middlebrow" sing-along classics like Carmen -- well, I think Joe is right to say that you can just sort of swing along to the beat -- "Tor-e-a-do-ra, bump-de-dump-de-dum" -- and then when you are resting between jumps you can click air castanets (ladies) or wave air cape (gentlemen).
-- Which is better than skating to no music at all. (I live in perpetual hope that someone will attempt Cage's 4'33" -- I think the reason no one has taken it on is that for a men's LP you would have to cut off 3 seconds.)
I think it is telling that Evan Lysacek (after doing Carmen for his LP last season) chose for his exhibition number, "the last three songs on my ipod."
MM