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From: halfen@snake29.cs.wisc.edu (Mark Halfen)
Subject: Re: Music in Volkswagen commercials
Message-ID: <1993Feb21.092525.619@daffy.cs.wisc.edu>
Summary: Patriot Games
Sender: news@daffy.cs.wisc.edu (The News)
Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison -- Computer Sciences Dept.
References: <01GUYPY4VCSI935EXI@Arizona.edu>
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1993 09:25:25 GMT

In article <01GUYPY4VCSI935EXI@Arizona.edu> "gibbs2@violet.ccit.arizona.edu"@arizona.EDU writes:
>	This may sound weird but does anyone know what music is used in the
>US Volkswagen commercials currently being aired on TV?  I find it very
>relaxing and moving.  It sounds like Irish folk singing, primarily a slow
>female voice, with other voices joining in, and some tones underneath.
>(Like I know what Irish folk music is like.)  It communicates to me the
>struggle of humanity and the determination of the human spirit to
>overcome.  I keep picturing a group of people traveling over frozen
>tundra to find a better home.  I sure hope it wasn't just for the commercial,
>but I think I heard something like it in a movie before too.  I REALLY want
                                            ^^^^^

I think the movie you saw it in was "Patroit Games". (Unless I'm _totally_
confusing your description with what I am thinking of.)  I tried to read
the credits at the end of the movie to see who the group was, but I don't
seem to recall being able to make it out. (Blame it on VHS--makes tiny credits
very hard to read.)  So, I guess this is a "me-too" message.  The music
is very etherial and soothing, much in contrast to the first scene it's used
in in the movie, where one of the terrorist dudes kills someone.  

mark