Adverts that use classical music
There is a generation (my generation) that will forever call the second movement from Dvorak's 'Symphony No 9 (From The New World)' - "The Hovis Music".

Instant devaluation of culture.
(theremin put the lotion in the basket on, Sun 18 Apr 2010, 0:02, 6 replies)

But...
There are probably a lot of people who would never have heard the music had it not been on that advert. Anything that brings quality arts to the masses has to be a good thing, surely?
( CaptainCrackerjack live trout, slow motion, Sun 18 Apr 2010, 13:22, closed)

Something similar applies to the Eroica
as used by the MEB in the 1980s.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Sun 18 Apr 2010, 14:45, closed)

You can revalue it, but it'll hurt
...because it's also the music for the hymn "Going Home", which was sung at the funeral of my Grandma, and my parents.

Instant weeping of buckets.
(all my scars face forward possesses 2.5% of a hyperalloy combat chassis, Sun 18 Apr 2010, 21:05, closed)

it is a shame
i really enjoy Dvorak
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Sun 18 Apr 2010, 23:20, closed)

See also
* the troika from Prokofiev's Lieutenant Kijé suite (which gets wheeled out every Christmas)
* the William Tell Overture
* Strauss's Also sprach Zarathustra
* Handel's Zadok the Priest

...and probably more which have slipped my mind for the moment.
( Legionary - My god, Brian, there's a message in my alphabets, Mon 19 Apr 2010, 11:08, closed)

The other really famous one from the same period is
'Air on a G String' by Bach used for the Hamlet Cigars advert.
(theremin put the lotion in the basket on, Tue 20 Apr 2010, 7:37, closed)