A new low in marketing classical music?

Posted by: Todd A on 17 February 2003

Check out this link:

http://www.andante.com/article/article.cfm?id=19979

What can I say?

Posted on: 17 February 2003 by Roy T

Todd,
things can get worse and in the "pop" world they have.

Tatu, UK Guardian, no pictures thank god.

Posted on: 17 February 2003 by fred simon

We're doomed.

Posted on: 17 February 2003 by --duncan--

quote:
Originally posted by Tom Alves:
At least they have used Faure yet

Tom

Or Wagner (aimed at the classical soloist)

duncan

Email: djcritchley at hotmail.com

Posted on: 17 February 2003 by Todd A

I like those Lara St. John CD covers - her newest one, too! I probably won't buy the CDs though.

Don't get me wrong, since I am male – and therefore a pig – I don’t really mind sexually imbued advertising. I ignore most ads anyway. But to associate Beethoven with sex. Beethoven? And the Pastoral at that? Goodness. I can see why people like Madonna or Britney Spears having to use sex to sell records. They have limited or no talent. (And then there is Christina Aguilera - Holy Crap!) But Beethoven and the interpreters that BMG have in their catalog?

Let us hope that the marketing gurus at BMG never discover composers like Johann Fux, or John Blow, or, gulp, Englebert Humperdinck.

Posted on: 17 February 2003 by Roy T

I always thought the Nutcracker to be fun