String Quartet tune on Citibank commerical?

September 7, 2005 at 12:25 AM · Anybody know what the string quartet tune on the Citibank commercials are? It's the commercial with the kid flying a kite at the beach. Thanks in advance!

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September 7, 2005 at 02:22 AM · I can't help you, but I feel your pain. At least once a month I hear a snippet of something cool that's gone forever. Sometimes I'd pay a hundred bux for it. In fact some of it would be life-altering, but what you gonna do?

September 7, 2005 at 12:56 AM · Where I can hear this tune to try identifying it?

September 7, 2005 at 03:29 AM · http://www.musipedia.org/forum.0.html?&cat_uid=1&conf_uid=1&thread_uid=476&view=single_thread

According to that site it's "Tchaikovsky String Quartet #1, mvt I"

September 7, 2005 at 05:28 AM · Funny, I feel the same way about bird songs.

September 7, 2005 at 03:48 PM · I used to dictate bird songs.

Needless to say I was considered a nerd on the farm....

Preston

September 7, 2005 at 09:23 PM · See, I just knew you had other hobbies besides playing the violin.

September 7, 2005 at 11:33 PM · Borodin Quartet has a great recording of the Tchaik #1...great stuff

September 9, 2005 at 05:14 AM · Thank you, thank you! It really is a beautiful work....might have to study that one soon!

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