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Anybody Recognize the Opening Theme to the Closing Ceremonies of the Sochi Olympics?
You-Tube ^ | 23 February 2014 | Dimitri Tiomkin

Posted on 02/23/2014 6:09:30 PM PST by Vigilanteman

I thought I did. Now I know I did. Why is it so hard for the blow hards on our alphabet news networks to give credit to a movie about Texas whose score was written by a Russian born American composer.

Obviously, the Russians are proud of him.

Why isn't our media? Just because he was a patriot in Hollywood in a time when it wasn't overwhelmingly dominated by Marxists?

As soon as the opening dance becomes available on You Tube, I would appreciate it if someone would post it!


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To: smokingfrog

Very fine music.


21 posted on 02/23/2014 7:15:36 PM PST by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: smokingfrog

22 posted on 02/23/2014 7:18:37 PM PST by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: xp38; goldstategop; dfwgator
Russian Grand Prix - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Grand_Prix‎ Wikipedia The Russian Grand Prix (Russian: Гран-при России) was a Grand Prix motor race briefly held in the 1910s in St. Petersburg.
23 posted on 02/23/2014 7:19:36 PM PST by xrmusn (6/98 --When you have them by the short hairs, the minds and hearts soon follow.)
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To: SADMILLIE

Kasimir Malevich.

I loved that upside down art, that whimsical, poetical flights of fancy which is at the heart of the Russian soul.

Beautifully done - I was carried away by that dream-like, moody scene.


24 posted on 02/23/2014 7:20:59 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: goldstategop

hilarious


25 posted on 02/23/2014 7:25:07 PM PST by SADMILLIE
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To: BunnySlippers

Bloshoi and Marinsky Theaters - world renowned - the Russian ballet is the true treasure of Russia.

Beautiful dancing dancing talent and I thought the chandelier was amazing!


26 posted on 02/23/2014 7:28:17 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Revolting cat!

There will be no invasion, Putin isn’t that stupid....But I do see them negotiating and Russia getting back the Crimea and perhaps the Donetsk region in exchange for allowing Ukraine to join the EU and perhaps NATO.


27 posted on 02/23/2014 7:32:17 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: xrmusn
Russian Grand Prix

I recall the story about how the Soviet media reported on a race between an American car and a Russian car: the Russian car finished next to first place, while the American car finished next to last place.

28 posted on 02/23/2014 7:33:00 PM PST by Fiji Hill (Io Triumphe!)
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To: goldstategop
There were a few snafus at the outset

As with any Olympics, Vancouver had their flame malfunction during their opening ceremonies.

29 posted on 02/23/2014 7:34:50 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: SADMILLIE

I liked the tribute to Russian literature.

I keep thinking of Alexander Green and his famous novel, “The Scarlet Sails.”

The other contribution of Russian culture is the cinema.


30 posted on 02/23/2014 7:35:36 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Fiji Hill

The official handover of the Olympic Flag to the mayor of PyeongChang formally closes the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi.

The Korean children who sang the national anthem on the stage were delightful.

This is the first time the Winter Olympic Games will be held in Asia since Nagano, Japan in 1998. Exactly twenty years!


31 posted on 02/23/2014 7:45:34 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: smokingfrog
Awesome story. A former boss of mine spent a year posted in Prague on assignment. He said it is as common there for the Czechs to get out their instruments and hold a jam session as it is for Japanese to go out for Karaoke or Americans to go out to dinner.

As a result, the average level of playing musical instruments is rather good in the Czech Republic, the average level of singing is rather good in Japan and the average level of eating is rather good in America.

32 posted on 02/23/2014 7:49:04 PM PST by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: BerryDingle; sten
Probably some of both.

When the bear mascot came in I asked my wife "Who tamed that bear?"

She replied "Ronald Reagan" then invited me into the bedroom to tame her. Of course, I obliged, but now she's sound asleep and I'm ready for an encore but don't have the heart to wake her up. So, here I am, pecking at the keyboard.

33 posted on 02/23/2014 7:52:20 PM PST by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: dfwgator

The Games were just declared closed and the world is taking its leave of Sochi.

Like they say, these were the best Games ever. And now all good things must come to an end with extinguishing the Olympic Flame.

Dosdivaniya, Sochi!


34 posted on 02/23/2014 8:04:22 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: dfwgator
Yep, they pulled it off. Putin looked like a leader on the world stage while Obama pouted in a closet somewhere.
35 posted on 02/23/2014 8:36:47 PM PST by Gabrial (The nightmare will continue as long as the nightmare is in the Whitehouse.)
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To: Trapper6012

Found on youtube, he also wrote the theme to The High and The Mighty......I still remember the first few lines of that song and it was 1950’s and the first movie I saw when John Wayne was not a cowboy..but an airline pilot


36 posted on 02/23/2014 8:39:35 PM PST by goat granny (.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Yes. He was the most prolific film composer of his time.

De Guella was from Rio Bravo the Green Leaves of Summer was from The Alamo.

37 posted on 02/23/2014 8:44:31 PM PST by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: Trapper6012; Vigilanteman

Thanks for introducing me to this great composer whose music was played at the Olympics in Sochi! The scores of those films were wonderful and memorable, yet I had no idea or even curiosity about who wrote them. I see that Dimitri Zinovievich Tiomkin was Jewish, born in 1894 in Kremenchuk, Poltova Oblast, on the banks of the Dnieper River in Central Ukraine, then part of the Russian Empire.

It’s clear why they played his music at the Olympics. His contributions to collective musical repertoire are amazing! He won three academy awards (was nominated for many more) and six Golden Globe Awards.

Read about him at the Wiki entry and the official Dimitri Tiomkin website with links to some of his music.

This composer deserves much greater general recognition in the U.S.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimitri_Tiomkin

http://www.dimitritiomkin.com/


38 posted on 02/23/2014 9:04:12 PM PST by Seeing More Clearly Now
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To: Vigilanteman

kind of burned out in week and didn’t see anything in week two except a little one night. but having said that, I streamed most of what I saw from out of the country with the CBC and BBC nd network ten in Aussieland. Too many sports.


39 posted on 02/23/2014 9:04:13 PM PST by Mozilla
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To: Vigilanteman

I kind of burned out in week one and didn’t see anything in week two except a little one night. But having said that, I streamed most of what I saw from out of the country with the CBC and BBC and Network Ten in Aussie-land. Too many sports.


40 posted on 02/23/2014 9:05:16 PM PST by Mozilla
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