Johnny Weir
Caroline Zhang
Elena Ilinykh & Nikita Katsalapov
Belousova & Protopopov
Totmianina & Marinin
Shizuka Arakawa
Peggy Fleming
Yuzuru Hanyu
Stephan Lambiel
Maria Butyrskaya
Wesley Campbell
Yu-Na Kim
Jeffrey Buttle
I know people complain that Carmen is overused, but I think Ave Maria has become a warhorse too. It's so associated with figure skating it's even included in Mario and Sonic Go to the Olympics game.
Well, good coverage of the ice, I didn't expect to see that.
Tempted though I was, I couldn't bring myself to watch all those video with the same tune. But I did watch Mario and Sonic. Wow, and that little video game character jumps in both directions!
ReplyDeleteI was going to do all the skaters who did "Child of Nazareth", but then I stumbled on all the ones above.
DeleteIt is such beautiful music, and very much suffers from overuse. When I was gigging for funerals/weddings I was often asked to play it. I learnt to ask "which one?" as the Bach/Gounod is equally much loved: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHgb727yJRY
ReplyDeleteRudy Galindo also skated to Ave Maria, but it's neither of those! So there's another one out there.
Delete"Ave Maria" is simply a church text (it's the"Hail Mary" prayer), and as such, has been set many times by many composers. I myself have at least 4 or 5 settings just in my solo vocal repertoire, have sung probably at least 3 or 4 choral settings, and that's just scratching the surface.
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