Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Winter Glade
This is one of those weird things. An ad has been running for Glade air fresheners in "holiday" scents, presumably cinnamon and sage and things (and booze breath? Quiet, Margaret.) It has the most sprightly, droll, silly, sweet music, and so oddly familiar! But I couldn't have told you where it came from.
Thank God for the internet, for it took me about thirty seconds to find out what it was (a lot of people wanted to know). Delius isn't my first choice, as he can be almost bland in my estimation, but this piece (the Winter Night or Sleigh Ride from Three Small Tone Poems) is twinkly and lovely and oh, so seasonal. Break out the nutmeg candles!
(Like most YouTube videos, this has its technical limitations. Somebody vastly cranked up the volume during the jaunty opening flute bit, probably thinking, "Oh, that's too quiet", just before the whole orchestra comes in, forte).
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I'll hafta wait for the commercial. With everyone else in the house suddenly obsessed with their computers I'm being as spare with bandwidth usage as possible. I am highly curious, however, as to how you found this on Google, or have they added a sound-input search engine in Canada?
ReplyDeleteIt's from YouTube. I just went on their home page, entered Delius and the name of the piece on the search engine, and there it was (a surprise: I had thought it was too obscure). There were two versions, the other one played by a live orchestra, but the sound in the hall was spacey and poor, and the conductor went on and on and on before the piece, as conductors will. Let's hope that Glade commercial comes on soon! Unlike 99% of other ads, it's charming.
ReplyDeleteActually, this doesn't explain how I found out it was Delius! I googled something like "what is the music on the Glade commercial?", and it came up on Ask.com or whatever it was. A lot of people wanted to know.
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