Radio Station Runs Newspaper Obituaries for Beethoven in Bid to Keep Classical Music Alive

Composer dies all over again in TBWA ads

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Beethoven died 187 years ago next month. So, why were apparently new obituaries for the composer only recently published?

TBWA\Guate counted on that clever bit of shock value as part of its bid to save Guatemala's only classical music radio station, Radio Faro Cultural, which is at risk of being closed—presumably because nobody under 50 listens to classical music anymore, no matter what country they're in, because they're all too busy listening to Pharrell or Katy Perry.

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