Allstate Commercial: Chopin?
Tatjana Gajic
On Mon, 4 Aug 1997, Dan Vath wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Can anyone tell me what piece that the little girl's playing in the
> current Allstate Insurance commercial.
>
> I've heard it before, and I'm almost positive that it's Chopin, but I have
> no idea what the name of the piece is. I believe it was used in the movie
> "Ragtime" also, but it wasn't listed in the credits.
>
> I would greatly appreciate someone helping with this. I would like to buy
> a CD of this beautiful song.
>
> Thanks,
> Dan
> drv...@up.net
>
>
>
Hi Dan,
I assume you mean the commercial where the house is gone,
but the piano remains, and she's playing in the middle
of a destroyed house.
If so, its a Chopin prelude. Chopin wrote a collection of
preludes, opus 28. She's playing number 7, which is a very
short work (I think she gets through the whole thing).
The Preludes are extraordinary for lots of reasons; Chopin
seems to have compressed everything mid-19th century piano
music could express into these 24 short pieces.
The most common recommendations for the preludes are for
Martha Argerich, and Pollini. Avoid the Rubenstein, IMO,
his Chopin is usually quite good but he himself had said
that his recording of the preludes was pretty weak.
Michael Quinn
Dan Vath
Kevin Clark
This is such an insult. The real question you should be asking is
WHY......Why have they used CHOPIN in a commercial?
God! This is a mockery!
Kev.
Alan Swindells
In article <5shrnr$h4u$3...@enyo.uwa.edu.au>, clac...@tartarus.uwa.edu.au
(Kevin Clark) wrote:
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> This is such an insult. The real question you should be asking is
> WHY......Why have they used CHOPIN in a commercial?
>
I can think of worse things! - which shall, of course, be nameless
for fear of bringing up an unpleasant subject.
> God! This is a mockery!
So, what's new?
--
Regards: Alan * alan...@argonet.co.uk *
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds...
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Matthew H. Fields
In article <5shrnr$h4u$3...@enyo.uwa.edu.au>,
Kevin Clark <clac...@tartarus.uwa.edu.au> wrote:
>This is such an insult. The real question you should be asking is
>WHY......Why have they used CHOPIN in a commercial?
>
>
>
>
Maybe they didn't want to pay their composer so they stuck
with the temp track?
--
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CONSTANTIN MARCOU
Kevin Clark wrote:
>
> This is such an insult. The real question you should be asking is
> WHY......Why have they used CHOPIN in a commercial?
>
> God! This is a mockery!
>
> Kev.
Is it any worse than the "Confutatis" or the "Lacrimosa" being used in
Microsoft commercials? I still can't get over an old Levis (or maybe
Guess) ad that featured the "Lacrimosa" while Claudia Schiffer, in VERY
tight jeans pouted at a workman -- all taking place in an industrial
elevator. Tearful is that day when Claudia gets boffed in an elevator?
Cheers
Con
Steve Wolk
I should think that depends on whom is doing the boffing, Con.
Steve Wolk
Steve Wolk
Kevin Clark wrote:
>
> This is such an insult. The real question you should be asking is
> WHY......Why have they used CHOPIN in a commercial?
>
> God! This is a mockery!
>
> Kev.
Actually, Kev, I wish all commercials would use CM. That would mean
lots less inane music I'd have to hear, and I could listen to the
commercials without watching them. I'd even do less channel surfing.
Steve Wolk