rfg@hound.UUCP (R.GRANTGES) (05/18/84)
[] I hope this doesn't seem too puerile to the sophisticated denizens of net.music.classical, but it seems to me that you are just the group to help me with a side project I've had in mind for a long time. I would like to compile a substantial list of examples of classical themes being used in commercials (either radio, tv, movies or whatever). For instance, there is ... Schubert: Symphony No.1, Allegro Vivace -> Campbell Soup Song (mm,mm good) I would much appreciate your sending me further examples. If there is sufficient interest, I will post the results to the net. Please use mail if you can. Thank you. hound!rfg
ron@brl-vgr.UUCP (05/18/84)
There was a lot of this dumped into net.trivia last month. -Ron
cbspt002@abnjh.UUCP (Marc E. Kenig @ ATT-IS Piscataway NJ) (05/21/84)
Although there has been a couple of comments whether Gilbert & Sullivan belongs in this group (My answer: YES!, more later on this), I remember a handywipes commercial featuring all of the household items you could possibly handywipe-off rattled off to the tune of the Major General's patter song in The Pirates of Penzance. Don't flame at me if this don't fit into your definition of a theme, pleze! M. Kenig ["Share and Enjoy!"] AT&T-IS S. Plainfield, or thereabouts. NJ
rfg@hound.UUCP (R.GRANTGES) (05/21/84)
[] Thank you for your contribution to my survey of classical themes used in commercials. Of course (for my purposes, anyway) G&S qualifies as classical. In fact I am inclined to define "classical" very broadly. I would include Jazz (until it has a group of its own) and even popular music of previous centuries. The latter is perhaps just an unreasoned bias of my own as I have a great fascination for Victorian music of all sorts. I would wish that my definition of "classical" were broad enough to include popular music of this century but I fear that every rocker in 4000 miles would claim that every rock piece ever written was a "classic." Because of that I would be glad to settle for a definition of "classical" as anything but rock in all its forms, except for two problems that would entail: 1) I would be ostracized as an unmitigated snob, boor, and much worse. 2) I actually do like some rock so why seem not to. Lehar, Strauss, Sullivan, Cage (?), they are all welcome as far as I am concerned. Anyone for the complete works of Stephen Foster? ... hound!rfg