Thursday, August 16, 2012
Mr. Lincoln Was Not A Seducer!
Somebody put "La Ci Darem La Mano" from Mozart's Don Giovanni as the background music for a video on the life Mary Todd Lincoln. Excuse me, but that duet is sung by the lascivious Don and a peasant girl he's attempting to seduce on her wedding day. What! Is the person who made the video implying that Abraham Lincoln was a Don Juan? Of course he wasn't! Please people; make sure you know the context of the song before using it in a biographical video.
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Somebody heard some music they liked and used it. Years ago Microsoft was advertising their browser (among other things) with the slogan "Where do you want to go today?" The music in the background was Confutatis Maledictus from Mozart's Requiem; probably not quite the place their audience wanted to go...
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