Klarinet Archive - Posting 000891.txt from 2000/02

From: Anne Bell <bell@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] New Microsoft ad reveals the truth!
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 07:07:30 -0500

Subtle but perhaps quite calculated! I think creative people tasked with
producing something that doesn't exactly challenge them often play games
like this. There are some interesting things hidden in some illustrations-
why not ironic things hidden in music & word selection. They've also
gotten some extra press in the process.
Anne

At 11:20 AM 2/23/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Since we occasionally discuss the Mozart on this list, I thought some of
>us might find this amusing - yet another in a long line of marketing
>blunders. At least this one is subtle.
>
>David
>
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>> The classically-minded among us may have noted a new TV ad for Microsoft's
>> Internet Explorer e-mail program which uses the musical theme of the
>> "Confutatis Maledictis" from Mozart's Requiem.
>>
>> "Where do you want to go today?" is the cheery line on the screen, while
>> the chorus sings "Confutatis maledictis, flammis acribus addictis"
>>
>> This translates to:
>>
>> "The damned and accursed are convicted to the flames of Hell."
>>
>>
>> Good to know that Microsoft has done its research.

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Anne Bell bell@-----.net
Bayside HS Orchestra Director
ABC Index: http://www.anne-bell.sneezy.org/ MUSIC LINKS!
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