I'm all for using classical music in commercials. It's fun to watch people's faces when they learn that the lovely duet they heard on the Delta commercials is from a real opera, or the music behind a recent car ad* was actually a prayer for deliverance from hell from a classical requiem. And as Mike McLaughlin says, it's better than what the producers might otherwise have used. No use of music in a commercial is going to start a stampede for the record stores, but at the Atlanta Symphony we do occasionally get calls from the public, wanting to know what that intriguing "song" was that they heard in such and such a TV ad. It's nice to hope that at least one record has been sold. The tide actually flows the other way sometimes. The fascinating theme from the De Beers diamond commercials ("Palladio" by Karl Jenkins) became so popular that it actually found its way onto some of our pops programs. Who knows? Maybe Delibes and Mozart would have been only too glad to write for commercials if the opportunity had been theirs. * Sorry, Madison Avenue. I'm afraid I remember the music much more distinctly than the brand name. Nick Jones Atlanta, Georgia