Favorite Warhorses
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POTO, Tosca, Romeo and Juliet, Carmen (but depends on the music choice), Memoirs of a Geisha (is it a warhorse?), Sheherazade, Swan Lake, Danse Macabre, Exogenesis Pt. 3 (warhorse status?), Clair de Lune and everything by Debussy, Experience, Bells of Moscow, Rach 2, Turnadot, Cinderella, Schindler's List.
I love most warhorses, however, it often depends on the music/singer/componist that was choosen for the program if I like it or not.
I think the only warhorse I am starting to hate are tangos by Astor P. There were just too many the past few seasons.
I love most warhorses, however, it often depends on the music/singer/componist that was choosen for the program if I like it or not.
I think the only warhorse I am starting to hate are tangos by Astor P. There were just too many the past few seasons.
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Thank you!
I really like her skating so I'm gonna go watch the programI mean to each their own but to me Moonlight Sonata is just boring for the most part.. but I also have a background in classic music so there are quite a few pieces I don't like, like everything from Johan Strauss, haha
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Scheherazade. The ever green warhorse, without being over done like Carmen.
From Midori....to Yuna.....to Pogorilaya....to Wakaba.....always a joy to watch.
From Midori....to Yuna.....to Pogorilaya....to Wakaba.....always a joy to watch.
I actually like most of the warhorses, especially when it comes to classical music, I love them all and I'm not tired of listening to them.
I am however tired of the general lack of originality and creativity in the figure skating world, where people keep skating to a few popular pieces over and over without any apparent point.
I am however tired of the general lack of originality and creativity in the figure skating world, where people keep skating to a few popular pieces over and over without any apparent point.
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Music of the Night from POTO
Turandot, Nessun Dorma
Samson and Delilah
Experience
W.E.
Cinderella - Prokofiev, and Patrick Doyle's for the 2015 live movie
Exogenesis
Rachmaninoff
Masquerade Waltz
East of Eden - the perfect skating music, I'll never tire of it
I Put A Spell on You
Dream of Love - Traumerei
Carmen done by single men, esp like Evan Lysacek's Lori Nichol program
Warhorses are warhorses for good reason: because the music and composition offer so many moods, and because powerful emotion in the music is a great help to figure skaters. And to their audiences. Also because complexity allows skaters to live with their music for a whole year.
I'll (almost!) never complain about skaters choosing a warhorse, because it all depends on how they're able to access and interpret the nuances. It's individual, and because individuals are like snowflakes, you could say there's infinite variation possible.
Turandot, Nessun Dorma
Samson and Delilah
Experience
W.E.
Cinderella - Prokofiev, and Patrick Doyle's for the 2015 live movie
Exogenesis
Rachmaninoff
Masquerade Waltz
East of Eden - the perfect skating music, I'll never tire of it
I Put A Spell on You
Dream of Love - Traumerei
Carmen done by single men, esp like Evan Lysacek's Lori Nichol program
Warhorses are warhorses for good reason: because the music and composition offer so many moods, and because powerful emotion in the music is a great help to figure skaters. And to their audiences. Also because complexity allows skaters to live with their music for a whole year.
I'll (almost!) never complain about skaters choosing a warhorse, because it all depends on how they're able to access and interpret the nuances. It's individual, and because individuals are like snowflakes, you could say there's infinite variation possible.
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Black Swan/ Swan Lake
Sherezade
Moonlight Sonata
Winter of Vivaldi
Meditation from Thais
Carmen
Romeo and Juliet
Dark Eyes
Sherezade
Moonlight Sonata
Winter of Vivaldi
Meditation from Thais
Carmen
Romeo and Juliet
Dark Eyes
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1) Carmen *pending on the music cut used
2) Skaterās Waltz
3) Don Quixote
4) Anything from a Fossee musical (Chicago, Sweet Charity, Cabernet, etc)
5) Moonlight Sonata
6) Four Seasons
7) Bolero
8) W/E Soundtrack
9) Pina Soundtrack
10) Riverdance
11) Sleeping Beauty *especially Gracieās cut in 2013-14
12) Assassinās Tango
13) Gatsby Soundtrack
14) Dark Eyes
15) Exogenesis
16) Blues for Klook
17) Gershwin - It aināt necessarily so
HONOURABLE MENTIONS:
Warhorses I Despise:
1) Rachmaninov No. 2 - itās always playing in my divorce lawyerās office
2) Nessun Dorma - makes my chihuahua howl at the moon
2) Skaterās Waltz
3) Don Quixote
4) Anything from a Fossee musical (Chicago, Sweet Charity, Cabernet, etc)
5) Moonlight Sonata
6) Four Seasons
7) Bolero
8) W/E Soundtrack
9) Pina Soundtrack
10) Riverdance
11) Sleeping Beauty *especially Gracieās cut in 2013-14
12) Assassinās Tango
13) Gatsby Soundtrack
14) Dark Eyes
15) Exogenesis
16) Blues for Klook
17) Gershwin - It aināt necessarily so
HONOURABLE MENTIONS:
Warhorses I Despise:
1) Rachmaninov No. 2 - itās always playing in my divorce lawyerās office
2) Nessun Dorma - makes my chihuahua howl at the moon
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Ha ha! Ain't spell check funny.
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HAHAHA, I just snort-laughed so hard that my sinuses hurt and my stomach aches.
Iāll leave the typo as is, itās funnier that way.
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I'm a fan of almost all opera arias & ballet music (especially Don Quixote) but also Broadway hits & "Queen hits".
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*she
there's a female version of Nessun Dorma, it might suit her
Moonlight Sonata too!Similar threads
