John Rounder writes:
Help, It’s Bach week here in the thawing hinterlands. A week of snippets and bits, but not a single cantata in its entirety. The public radio station has a new fund raising campaign running, as well, and they are running ads with nasal English conductors foisting their mother country accent us, urging us to send in money because after all Mozart was a genius, whose music never ceases to astonish us. Having an Englishman Peter Cushin or Christopher Lee sell high culture is a lovely American tradition. Check out this classic ad for classical music “So many of the melodies of popular songs were actually written by the great masters.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBhGjo9TuAc
Why not have someone in a Viennese accent tell us that Mozart wants you to contribute to public radio? Would that leave the wrong impression?
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment