Did anyone else notice that Hollywood's Dimitri Tiomkin's music was featured at the closing ceremony?

[El Supremo]

I had thought it was from 'Giant'. But it was also from 'It’s a Wonderful Life' and 'Cyrano de Bergerac'

http://www.dimitritiomkin.com/6005/music-by-tiomkin-opens-sochi-closing-ceremonies-to-high-acclaim-february-23-2014/

[stopbush]

1. I noticed.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

2. Didn't know that.

After Scheherazade, I heard something that sounded like a Tchaikovsky waltz, but I'm not sure what it is. It was not the waltz from Eugene Onegin nor the waltz from the Serenade in C. During the ballet sequence maybe??

Any other classical music nuts wanna help me out???

There were several classically trained guys who got the hell out of Germany and Russia and went to Hollywood and wrote great movie music. Max Steiner, Miklos Rosza, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Bernard Herrmann, and some others I've forgotten.

They mentioned ballet(Pavlova and Diaghilev) and literature but never mentioned composers. Those were the guys who wrote all that cool ballet music.

I saw the famous Chagall painting (I and the Village) on the floor but couldn't figure out what
an upside down ship had to do with Kasimir Malevich, since he was into total abstraction.

Since the female commentator on figure skating mispronounced Scheherazade (When Meryl and Charlie were performing) I'm sure they could not pronounce "Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov". I did hear an announcer say somebody was skating to Glazunov and pronounced it correctly.

That said, I still think Scott Hamilton is the coolest guy ever to ice skate.

[El Supremo]

3. The Tiomkin music was at the biginning.

When the boat first came in.

I missed by Rimsky-Korsakov and Tchaikovsky because wife wife had to watch Dowton Abbey.