[Dixielandjazz] The Perils of Figure Skating to Dixieland.

[David M Richoux]

The video can be seen (if you have Microsoft Starlight installed -  
won't work on some computers) on the NBC Olympics website.
http://tinyurl.com/yj5hszd   I gave it a look-see - wasn't all that  
bad, but I am no expert skating judge. The costumes were a bit  
strange, but the music was OK...

Dave Richoux
On Feb 17, 2010, at 5:47 AM, Stephen G Barbone wrote:

> 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?
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> ". . . .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
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