dyer@wivax.UUCP (Stephen Dyer) (06/06/84)
British Airways has a TV commercial plugging their extra wide "club car" seats while on the soundtrack a soprano and mezzo are singing an operatic duet. I wish I knew just what they are singing, because it is one of the most ravishingly beautiful pieces of music I have ever heard (at least on a TV commercial.) Can anyone knowledgeable in 18th or 19th c. vocal music offer assistance? Waiting by the tube, -- /Steve Dyer decvax!bbncca!sdyer sdyer@bbncca.ARPA
wildbill@ucbvax.UUCP (William J. Laubenheimer) (06/15/84)
Yeah. British Airways has scored a neat coup - they have the TWO best
currently running commercials right now. This one, very arty type, and
the takeoff of Close Encounters ("Roger, Manhattan, you are clear
for landing." .. "This is Manhattan, descending to 2000 feet" .. etc) -
you can tell what they are emulating by the crashing chord at touchdown.
Of course, the first time I saw the second one, I thought \\Cities in
Flight//, but, alas, spindizzies were nowhere to be found.
I will be severely disappointed if neither of these commercials make it
to the Clio award finals.
____ Bill Laubenheimer
___ / \ ___ UC-Berkeley Computer Science
/ \ | o o | / \ ucbvax!wildbill
------+++----------()----------+++------
...Killjoy was here!sdyer@bbncca.ARPA (Steve Dyer) (08/17/84)
Well, the mystery of the music for the British Airways commercial
has been solved. A operaphile friend of mine identified it as
the Flower Duet from Delibes' Lakme.
Dropping down to the Harvard Coop to pick up a copy, I came across
a Seraphim cassette of highlights from Lakme (4XG-60386) with the
following prominently displayed on its cover:
"includes the FLOWER DUET featured in the British Airways TV commercial."
SOMEONE's obviously been asking for it...
--
/Steve Dyer
{decvax,linus,ima}!bbncca!sdyer
sdyer@bbncca.ARPA