Meoima
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Hello, your "interpretation" on this matter is very misleading. Apparently, there is a good translation of this article:Regarding music mix, I would like to introduce interesting stories.
https://victorysportsnews.com/articles/4441/original
zuru asked the composer to allow the music mix again as being for sports, not for commercial purposes. Composer gave permission as "exception only this time". But it is clear that the mix was not what the composer wanted.
This program recorded the highest score of FS.
Because first:
When Hanyu-senshu brought Joe Hisaishi’s music over, [Yano’s side] got flustered. Speaking of Hisaishi-san, he is a leading musician in Japan, also famous for the music of animation works produced by Studio Ghibli.
“Although I am fine with doing it, I told the team on Hanyu-kun’s side, ‘Please at least get permission.’ We started by editing in parallel [as they sought permission].“
There was a reason why Yano-san brought this up. In the past, Kozuka-senshu wasn’t granted permission to use Ghibli music for the program piece when he edited it himself, leading to a whole sequence of events where they eventually went through the pains of re-recording in order to use the music in the program....
And it leads to this:
“Although [Hisaishi] was not present, Hisaishi’s side listened to the actual piece that I had edited for the program on the spot. And [I brought up the fact] that figure skating isn’t for commercial purposes but is purely done for sports. That I hoped to be allowed to use Hisaishi-san’s music for a competitive program in this sport. That I would like to obtain permission to edit [the music] based on the competitive time requirements, demands of the performance, so forth. I requested everything formally. That it seems like Hanyu-senshu already has an image in mind; if somehow we could receive permission and talk with Hisaishi-san…”
Afterward, Hisaishi decided to grant permission. However, this was a special exception for one time only, granted because of Hisaishi-san’s kind generosity. With that, the program music, “Hope & Legacy”, took shape with exotic “Asian Dream Song” inserted between “View of Silence,” a beautiful piano piece. Only one such gem of a program exists in this world, and it became a representative performance of Yuzuru Hanyu.
From https://wherespacepooh.tumblr.com/post/162588835769/the-world-of-figure-skating-music-spun-by-sound
And this part is very interesting:
Shortly after that, the team involved in the creation of “Hope & Legacy” was invited to [Hisaishi’s] concert in Tokyo. There, Yano-san greeted Hisaishi-san himself directly for the first time.