Maestros advertising machines

Maestros advertising machines

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norman lebrecht

June 05, 2017

Christian Thielemann’s advertisement for the new VW-Golf calls to mind the commercial endorsements by conductors in more innocent times.

Remember Hebert von Karajan’s slogan for CD ‘all else is gaslight’?

Or Andre Previn’s TV ads for low-tech television sets?

Any other maestros come to mind?

 

 

Comments

  • Ravi Narasimhan says:

    Herbert Blomstedt for National Semiconductor:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfeZm56C-zE

    Oh, that’s Bernie Kopell?

    Never mind.

  • Joe says:

    Arthur Fiedler for the GE ‘Slumber Line’ air conditioner. According to an old friend in the BSO, ‘that guy would do anything for a buck’.

  • Michael Smith says:

    Christopher Hogwood did colour supplement adverts for Liberty waistcoats.

  • Brian says:

    Jaap van Zweden recently did an Audi commercial:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jM6_BViTqw

  • harold braun says:

    Arthur Fiedler did some…for Boeing 747 and some brand of whisky,don’t remember which one.

  • Cubs Fan says:

    Max Goberman conducting the Vienna Symphony playing the Oscar Meyer wiener song over 50 years ago.

  • Wrong note says:

    Gunter Wand ad in Berliner Zeitung around 1985, for Mouton Cadet. He liked “tapping the Claret” as John Drummond found out!

  • Ernie says:

    Esa-Pekka Salonen for Apple.

  • Larry says:

    Arthur Fiedler also did a commercial for Florida orange juice.

  • Larry says:

    There’s a young African-American conductor — apologies to him that I can’t remember the name – who is seen on screen conducting a symphony orchestra, this in a commercial for the GM Denali.

  • Giora Schmidt says:

    This one (posted only a few days ago) with Itzhak Perlman is pretty “flaky” 😉
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svlCYY1SD8g

  • bye bye says:

    Kurt Mazur for Trojan’s extra sensitive condoms.

  • Jacob Rees Mogg says:

    Sir Adrian Boult I recall, appeared sponsoring spats from Dunmore & Locke in 1942. I remember as nanny brought us a Battenburg cake from F & M.

  • Jacob Rees Mogg says:

    I seem to recall Sir Thomas Beecham appeared in an ad in the Gloucestershire Echo, about 1949 endorsing Piles ointment. Must have been for poor old RVW.

  • Jacob Rees Mogg says:

    The late Lorin Maazel had a deal with Rolex, I seem to remember. The ads often appeared in Gramophone and Blackwoods Magazine.

  • Simon Evnine says:

    Pinchas Zukerman with a vodka ad in NY Times

  • Pedro says:

    I remember seeing an advertising of Accoustic Research where Karajan was promoting their speakers. That was more than forty years ago.

  • Cyril Blair says:

    Who can forget Hans von Bülow’s commercials for Krippenmeyer’s Tincture of Iodine?

    • Sue says:

      Or Beecham’s Pills. (Oh, he really was a pill himself!)

      • Charlie Parker says:

        Well if Sir Thomas had followed a career in the laxative business, I am sure he would have made it run as regular as clockwork! I gather Wilhelm Furtwaengler liked taking Beechams pills, all that Bratwurst etc very bad for the innards. They met up at Bayreuth in 1936, Furts was doing Lohengrin.

  • Gaffney Feskoe says:

    I recall a print ad that Sir Colin Davis did for Rolex Watches.

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