Sochi Olympics 2014

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Originally Posted by Snowflake

The military chorus rapping was also missing. That said, I thought the opening ceremonies were beautiful and I loved the parade of nations. I did find it amusing the heavy use of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake since he was infected with the gay.

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

[Alex]

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

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

[innerSpaceman]

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.)

[SzczerbiakManiac]

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

[Snowflake]

Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor

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

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.