Mary Esterheld ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

>Perhaps there's hope for CM after all.  Have you noticed how much CM
>is now being used as background for TV commercials? Granted they're only
>snippets (how long are commercials) but I'll bet that music will becomed
>ingrained in people's heads just as deeply as the words and music of non-CM
>commercials.  We all know children exposed to TV who learn and repeat
>commercials until they become almost second nature.

I shouldn't get too excited - classical music has been used in commercials
and children's tv and cinema (The Lone Ranger, Flash Gordon) for decades.

What interests me is: when the commercial interests have closed down the
last music school for economic reasons, who is going to *play* the music
for the commercials?

Deryk Barker
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