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March 12

Music in an Olympics ice skating video

This is a video, from the official Olympics YouTube channel, showing figure skater Sarah Hughes's long program in the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, for which she ended up winning the gold medal. Her original program music was a medley of Maurice Ravel's Daphnis et Chloé and Sergei Rachmaninoff's "Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini" and "Piano Concerto No. 2". However, in this video, the music has been replaced with a different instrumental piece. Does anyone know what the new music is? (Several commenters on the video also ask, and none of them know either.) —SeekingAnswers (reply) 20:59, 12 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

In viewing all those highlight videos from the 2002 games that the official YouTube channel uploaded, it sounds to me that they more likely either commissioned some composer to overlay all those clips with new background music, found some copyrighted background music to use, or they used a set of royalty free background music. Either way, the instrumental pieces in all those clips (especially this one of Steven Bradbury (speed skater)) reminds me of generic background music for commercials. Sorry, I can't help you other than that. Zzyzx11 (talk) 04:59, 14 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I know all this. But even a lot of trailer music and other production music is identifiable and, increasingly, commercially sold to the wider public, and the music for this video sounds very familiar; I just can't quite place it. —SeekingAnswers (reply) 13:39, 14 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

What song/music video was this?

Song from the late 1990s. The video featured someone dressed like an old-fashioned (19th/earth 20thC) butterfly hunter. AT the end of the song, he got magically trapped in a book. Iapetus (talk) 21:32, 12 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

That would be the video to accompany Enya's "Caribbean Blue" - unless there is another video that has that same kind of sequence. MarnetteD|Talk 21:38, 12 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Ah thanks, that's it. (I had had a feeling it might have been Enya, and was looking at her videos on Youtube - but ran in the typical YouTube problem of other people's mix videos overtaking the official ones). Iapetus (talk) 21:11, 13 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Glad I could help Iapetus. With all of the Maxfield Parrish influences on its visiual style it is a favorite of mine. Cheers. MarnetteD|Talk 02:57, 14 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The visual effect is enhanced if the viewer happens to have ingested LSD recently, or so I've heard. —Tamfang (talk) 04:47, 14 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]