Did they use Swan Lake? All I noticed was Stravinsky's Firebird.

Ok, maybe they're on track to pique my interest in watching the Olympics.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slate...triptease.html

They also used a Freddy Mercury Queen song. Apparently, the irony was lost on them.


(Meanwhile, the rainbow-finger gloves the first-up for Parade-of-Athletes Greeks wore was NOT a protest move, but the official Winter Olympics gloves that feature the five colors of the Olympic Rings. Yes, we gays are reaching.)

Though I too initially thought they looked rainbowish from a distance, red, yellow, green, blue, and black do not a rainbow make.

Yes, they did several times. They also used Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, Glazunov, Borodin and Glinka. What I was surprised was missing some Rimsky-Korsakov. I also thought the reference to Sergei Diaghilev ironic, too. But, he did have a talent for finding and exporting or highlighting the best of Russian Ballet at the time. A period of dance and art design I still find endlessly fascinating.

I am really enjoying the ability to stream replays of complete events from the Olympic feed via Comcast. It was a treat to see ALL of the 4 runs of Men's Luge (38 competitors) and Snowboarding, Alpine sking and some Biathlon. With none of the idiot NBC comentary. The Australian guy who was calling the luge runs really knew his stuff.