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From: rfg@hound.UUCP (R.GRANTGES)
Newsgroups: net.music.classical
Subject: Re: Survey: Classical themes used in commercials
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Date: Mon, 21-May-84 16:09:52 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 21 16:09:52 1984
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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