[Dixielandjazz] The Perils of Figure Skating to Dixieland.

[Stephen G Barbone]

This excerpt  from Straight.com, "Vancouver's on line source". part of  
a write up about the Pairs Free Skating at the Olympics. Anyone see  
them skating to lots of Tuba and Dixieland Clarinet?

". . . .They go pinwheeling out of their plans, sliding away on their  
bums or hands and knees while the music plays on. It’s kind of like  
someone suddenly vomiting during their wedding vows. Okay, that’s  
putting it too strongly, but it hints at what happened to  
Switzerland’s Anais Morand and Antoine Dorsaz during the early going  
of tonight’s pairs free skate at the Pacific Coliseum. Togged up in  
matching beige plaid outfits that said “high jinks”, they opened with  
a bit of sunny-side-of-the-street music featuring plenty of tuba. But  
the obsessively rehearsed sense of fun was dented when Dorsaz fell  
and, after righting himself, tossed Morand in such a way that she too  
wound up splayed on the ice. The soundtrack for this second, routine- 
killing error was happy-happy Dixieland clarinet."

Cheers,
Steve Barbone
www.myspace.com/barbonestreetjazzband