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The Williams pieces are evergreen. Incidentally, it might be because I've been watching the live feeds more than any TV coverage (thank goodness for Roku), but I haven't heard the Brisco County Jr. theme at all this time around.
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I don't watch the olympics... never have, never will... HOWEVER, I do NOT understand what the "uproar" is about! I mean, isn't Schindler's List MAINLY about one man SAVING SO MANY LIVES? What a wonderful thing... but that's just me!
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Japanese skaters danced to Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence, no one complained that I know of.
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What I would REALLY like to see is a Canadian skater skating to the theme from Bob and Doug McKenzie's SCTV show The Great White North!
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I, for one, never tire of John Williams' Olympic themes, and I even listen to them during non-Olympic years!
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I, for one, never tire of John Williams' Olympic themes, and I even listen to them during non-Olympic years! GASP!
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Feb 24, 2018 - 11:46 PM
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Bibliomike
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I've watched a LOT of the Olympics this year, and being drowned in Williams' Olympic themes thanks to NBC's coverage in the US got me wondering if the same is true of TV coverage in other countries. Are Williams' themes used? Something else? I'm assuming NBC retains exclusive rights to these pieces but I don't know. They're fine pieces but good LORD those opening bars of "Summon the Heroes" are haunting my dreams. Thank God you don't live in Canada because you'd have to listen to this sorry excuse for a theme every day! https://soundcloud.com/cbc_music/cbc-olympic-games-theme-2018-pyeongchang With all the great Canadian composers that they could have picked to write the theme, the CBC hired Grayson Matthews, a Toronto agency who assigned the project to MULTIPLE in-house composers. :smh: -Erik- Well, it is no Williams "Olympic Fanfare and March," but at least it has the advantage, for its first few seconds, of being based on an authentic Korean folk tune. The first six seconds are "Arirang," which I only know because it is set to a text in "The Presbyterian Hymnal" (1990), "Christ, You Are the Fullness." It's quite a lovely tune in its entirety. Can't speak to the rest of the CBC's offering, but those first six seconds I will affirm! --Mike Poteet
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