Gamaliel is my new best friend. I was going to complain about
classical music being used in ads but he beat me to it, so I think I'll complain about
the glee with which ad execs exploit composers who can no longer defend themselves.
It's one thing if Delores from
the Cranberries wants to sell her schwag to a car company. Whatever. Being an artist includes the need to make a living and she isn't going to hell for it.
HOWEVER.The people responsible for
the "Movies movies movies" jingle to the tune of Beethoven's ninth?
Or "
the Diamond song?"
Or
Microsoft and Bach and Mozart?
Or EVERY POLITICIAN OR LAWYER THAT HAS TV ADVERTISING USING AARON COPLAND'S "
FANFARE FOR THE COMMON MAN"?
I have two words for them:
Confutatis maledictus.