hockeyfan228 said:
Which parts? The second movement adagio is sublime, but I didn't see enough rhythm changes, in it and I'm not sure whether the last movement would drive the people in their seats crazy.
I think there is enough music in the first and third movements for a long program. There is a nice balance of flow and contrast in the first movement. The long melodic lines with a dotted march like rhythm in the background. At minute 5.5 is the perfect place for a Michelle spiral. I am not worry about whether people would be driven off their seats crazy. I want Michelle to skate something nice worthy of a master piece for my video tapes. I lump programs into 3 general categories, the winning programs, the masterpieces and a combination of both. Tara's rainbow program is a winning program, even though I adore her, I don't think it is a masterpiece. Ruh's Gliere harp concerto program, IMO is a master piece, not a winning program, but it touches my heart. Lulu Rach #2 is a combo of both. Lyra Angelica does not have a lot of variation of tempo or rhythm either
Of course MK is actively competing, so I guess
for winning programs I love to see her skate to Vaughn Williams Job There is enough drama to drive people off their seats. I will choose scene VI, Dance of Job's comforters/ Job's vision, and the epilogue.
Quoting the liner notes:
The endurance of faith over affliction, "this drama of heaven and hell" (Richard Capell), Job divides into nine heavily-mimed scenes, scored for forces including saxophone, organ and a large percussion battery.
Scene I Introduction Pastoral Dance Satan's Appeal to God –Saraband of the Sons of God - Largo sostenuto allegro piacevole .
Scene II Satan's Dance of Triumph - Presto con fuoco moderato alla marcia presto
Scene III Minuet of the Sons of Job and Their Wives -Andante con moto
Scene IV Job's Dream. Dance of Plague, Pestilence, Famine and Battle- Lento moderato allegro
Scene V Dance of the Messengers -Lento andante con moto lento
Scene VI Dance of Job's Comforters. Job's Curse. A Vision of Satan -Andante doloroso?poco pimosso ancora pimosso "Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth". Satan introduces in turn Job's three Comforters (three wily hypocrites [Blake's supposition]). Their dance is at first one of pretended sympathy, but develops into anger and reproach. Job stands and curses God. "Let the day perish wherein I was born". Heaven gradually becomes visible, showing mysterious veiled, sinister figures moving in a sort of parody of the Sons of God in Scene I. Heaven is now lit up. The figures throw off their veils and display themselves as Satan enthroned, surrounded by the hosts of Hell. Satan stands. Job and his friends cower in terror. The vision gradually disappears. (In Keynes's scenario, Scenes V and VI were originally linked as one.)
Scene VII Elihu's Dance of Youth and Beauty. Pavane of the Sons of the Morning Andante tranquillo (
Scene VIII Galliard of the Sons of Morning. Altar Dance and Heavenly Pavane (Andante con moto ?allegro pesante ?allegretto tranquillo ?lento).
Scene IX Epilogue (Largo sostenuto). "So the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning". Job, an old and humbled man, sits with his wife. His friends come up one by one and give him presents. Job stands and gazes on the distant cornfields. Job's three daughters enter and sit at his feet. He stands and blesses them.
Another winning program possibility for Michelle's long program is Barber's Medea's meditation and Vengeance, or the Medea's suite. 
Jenny Kirk, as nice a young woman as she is, as much of a fighter as she's proven to be, I just can't get worked up about, nothing against her personally, her skating just doesn't move me, strikes me as too frail. Maybe she can put her old ballet experience to use in a "swan lake" or something, though that music has been extremely overused by US ladies, and skaters ingeneral, of late. Maybe R&J would work for her as well, the movie music Sasha used, I mean.
