icenetwork.com 在魁北克夏季比赛后采访了V/M, D/R和美国双人C/S和加拿大全新双人组合P/T
D/R在访谈中谈及了他们的短节目音乐,这是男选手Eric自己的原创音乐,命名为“致敬”。Eric从8岁开始弹钢琴,短节目音乐是致敬Eric的教练Paul Wirtz,Eric从16岁开始和这位教练训练,但是该教练于2006年病逝于一种叫“非霍奇金淋巴瘤”的疾病。而女选手Meagan则表示,这个短节目也献给所有帮助和关注他们的人。
最后D/R组合还透漏了自由滑的音乐信息,除了Danny Elfman为电影《爱丽丝梦游仙境》创作的原声外,结尾部分的一段音乐来自音乐公司“Two Steps from Hell”(地狱咫尺)制作的音乐。
关于D/R部分的访谈原文如下:
Duhamel, Radford pay tribute to late coach
Meagan Duhamel and Eric Radford, who train under Richard Gauthier and Bruno Marcotte in Montreal, unveiled their new short program Saturday night, earning an impressive 71.44 points. This included a one-point deduction for skating past their music.
Canada's world pairs bronze medalists opened with a Level 3 triple twist followed by their trademark side-by-side triple Lutzes, jumps no other top pair attempts. Radford touched his hand down on the landing. Later, Duhamel put her hand down on the landing of the throw triple Lutz. The other four elements, including a Level 4 step sequence, gained many positive grades from the judges.
"We are really happy with our program today," Radford said. "It was smooth, but we know we have to work on the technical aspects. We got a time deduction and will check how we can avoid this in the future."
"Our scores were very high," Duhamel said. "We have worked a lot on our flow across the ice, and our connection with each other. This paid off, and it was a good start to our season."
Gauthier thinks his team is peaking at precisely the right time.
"It takes two to three years to form a very good pair," he said. "They are in their fourth season together and can finally show perfect harmony and the difficult little things between the elements, which the judges and the public like."
Their music, entitled "Tribute," is an original competition by Radford, a pianist since the age of 8. It is dedicated to Radford's former coach, Paul Wirtz, who trained Radford from age 16 and oversaw the skater's early partnership with Sarah Burke. Wirtz died of non-Hodgkin lymphoma in 2006.
Radford is one of just a few international competitors to compete to a self-penned composition. Ukrainian Dmitri Dimitrenko, the 1993 European champion, did so in the 1990s.
"[The program] is also dedicated to all of the people who helped us to have such a wonderful skating career," Duhamel said.
Duhamel and Radford did not perform their free skate but described its music.
"It is set to Danny Elfman's version of Alice in Wonderland, with a little piece from a music company called Two Steps from Hell at the very end," Radford said. "We couldn't find an ending we liked in the Alice in Wonderland soundtrack."
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