Instrumental music hunt.

[icarus]

Working on the music for John's competitors for the long program.

I have John's music for the short and long program (of course). I (probably) have all the necessary competitor's short program music. I have all but one of the needed music for the long program.

I've got most of the music, but I'm looking for a "bouncy" piece (can't have any lyrics) that's 4:30 minutes or longer. I need something with "pep." Could be classical, jazz, flamenco, or rock instrumental.

(I had to delete some practice music because it came out after 1999.)

Any ideas? Thoughts? Those who follow figure skating, anything I could steal from this year's competitions?

Comments

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes, yes, thank you, yes. File yes, oh yes.

[rikibeth.livejournal.com]

lj email addy for yousendit?

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

icarus.ancalion at gmail

(Yay!)

[rikibeth.livejournal.com]

hope .m4a is adequate, I keep everything in iTunes, but this is ripped from my own CD so should be fine, don't know if I have source CD or if ex got it in the divorce though. He's the bigger Brust fan.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

M4A is just fine. I can play them. :D

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Got it! Am adding to iTunes now.

[rikibeth.livejournal.com]

yay! I'm only two degrees of separation from the band, so this makes me happy.

oh, and 1995.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Oh, this is kinda cool.

Yeah.

[rikibeth.livejournal.com]

You see why a quick mental grep of "bouncy instrumentals" in my library turned this up as a skater's piece. (Actually I thought of Arpad's Guz first, but that was like under 2 minutes, so I poked the other ones until I found a longish track.)

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

This is very Kyle Fletcher-y. And lots of tempo shifts. I like this.

[rikibeth.livejournal.com]

yay!

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

There's a section from about 3:40 - 5:00 that I'd have to cut. Too much fiddle sawing and the music comes to a stop on the ultra high notes.

But the rest of it, oh yeah, this is a serious contender. Just different enough that the audience won't know how to react. It's Fletcher so he can get away with it, it's unique, but likely to leave the audience confused so doesn't out-do John.

[rikibeth.livejournal.com]

Well, you've got the breathing room in the length to drop that if you need to.

Oh! Since you are that level of fan? Did YOU recognize the music that Alexei Yagudin used as his black-and-gold exhibition piece in 2000, the one that practically melted the ice, he was so hot? I asked him DIRECTLY (he trained in Simsbury, he came into the Wild Oats where I worked, I worked up my courage to approach him) and he said he didn't know, his coach found it somewhere.

I would so love to know that. We speculated it was Dead Can Dance.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Er. I know the performance. Let me find out the music.

[aigooism.livejournal.com]

Is there a youtube of it or something? Maybe if I listen, I might know.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Oh, you're not talking about The Man In The Iron Mask, are you? He wore black-and-gold for that.

Here's a complete listing of his exhibition programs from 1999 on, but I don't know what costume he wore with which.

1997/1998 - Mack The Knife, The Big Parade

1998/1999 - Beat It, Somewhere In My Broken Heart, The Rose, Circus

1999/2000 - Broken Arrow, Nutrocker (wore what looks like it might be gold and black, hard to tell), For You, September Morning, Tosca, We Are The Champions, Nessun Dorma feat. Vanessa Mae,

2000/2001 - Gladiator, Stand By Me, My Baby You, Santa

2001/2002 - Overcome (skated in black), Rock N' Roll, Racing, Close To You, Tango, The Typewriter

2002/2003 - Studz (A Little Less Conversation), Feelings

The thing is, he reuses a lot of his older programs. So you might see something in 2000 but the first time he debuted it would have been two years earlier. And Yagudin is always melt-the-ice hot. LOL.

Hope that helps. I can look earlier if you like.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Drat. Audacity won't let me open this file to cut it. I mean, it open something, but I get a 30 second squeak. Weird.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Here's what I'm thinking. I think what's happened is that Audacity can't open M4A files. I'm looking for another copy of it online but it is cool, and a complete change of pace.