Joel Hill <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>Is anyone familiar with the Piano Concerto "Otonal" by Raul di Blasio??
>I heard part of it as an accompanyment to some figure skating one night.
>Sounded a bit like a cross between Rachmaninoff and Addinsell (if that
>isn't redundant, what is?)

A Russian female skater, Maria Butyrskaya, is using this music in her
free program.  In fact, she is using this music for 3 or 4 consecutive
years, which is unusual in the recent figure skating competitions.  She
did not very well in Nagano Olympic, but finally she won the gold medal
in the world figure skating championship this year by this free program,
defeating Michelle Kwan.  Personally, I thought the sound quality of this
music was terrible, apart from the quality of music itself.

Maybe this is not what you would like to know...?

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