I watched "The Red Shoes" on TCM the other night, now I got Swan Lake stuck in my head

[Mr. Scorpio]

Any idea how long I’m going to be dealing with this?

[viva la]

1. Could be worse. Could be "Tie a Yellow Ribbon"

I heard the surefire fix for an earwig is Beethoven's Fifth.

[Mr. Scorpio]

3. My favorite is the 7th, BTW.

[viva la]

5. Any Beethoven is likely to drive anything else out of our heads-

Powerful stuff.

[Tomconroy]

2. I saw Nureyev dance in Swan Lake at Covent Garden in 1976.

It's still stuck in my head.

[Mr. Scorpio]

4. Which is amazing...

Because part of the Red Shoes was set at Covent Garden.

It was amazing how different that neighborhood looked in 1948

[elleng]

6. Your whole life, as am I!

Hope this is OK for you:

[Blue Owl]

7. A Tchaikovsky melody ain't a bad thing to have stuck in your head

[Jeebo]

8. Sibelius, "The Swan of Tuonela"

A few months ago I had a stupid television advertising jingle stuck in my head and it was driving me INSANE. I went to You Tube and found "The Swan of Tuonela" and listened to it on a loop seven or eight times straight. That got the advertising jingle out of my head. It was a very pleasant cure, too, because I love that Sibelius composition. I love that movie "The Red Shoes" too.

-- Ron

[betsuni]

9. I LOVE "The Red Shoes."

So many good lines, but my favorite is when the clueless composter asks the famous dancer if she's a dancer and she says, "At night. Not very much in the morning."

Moira Shearer in a fabulous pas de deux, "The Tales of Hoffmann":

[betsuni]

10. It's on YouTube! Everyone please watch this beautiful movie.

[KatyaR]

11. Just don't jump off a balcony

into the path of an oncoming train.

That would be bad....