The Four Seasons in popular culture
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The Four Seasons by Antonio Vivaldi has often been referred to in popular culture.
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[edit] TV
- Television shows by executive producer Steven Bochco feature an end-credit production company tag showing a violinist performing an excerpt from the piece.[citation needed]
- A section of Winter played in the Finnish TV program Spede Show at the start of the recurring "How you should not speak to a woman" gag.[citation needed]
- The piece was played during The Weather Channel's Local Forecast during the mid 1990s
- A small section of the Spring Allegro was played in the Justice League episode 'Hereafter'.[citation needed]
- The Spring Segment was played on Aqua Teen Hunger Force when Frylock introduced Meatwad to Classical. Meatwad liked it, but he preferred his rap album instead.
[edit] Film
- The piece is featured heavily in the Korean film Oldboy.[citation needed]
- The piece is featured in the Thai film Seasons Change.[citation needed]
- The piece was used in the movie Spy Game during a car chase in Eastern Germany when Tom Bishop (Brad Pitt) was driving a Trabant trying to escape from the German police.[citation needed]
- The entire piece was used as the soundtrack to the IMAX film "The Seasons", narrated by William Shatner.
[edit] Music
- The piece was adapted to Progressive Rock by the Spanish band "Los Canarios" in the 1974's album "Ciclos".[citation needed]
- A section of Winter was used in Canadian singer Keshia Chante's song Been Gone.[citation needed]
- Guitar virtuoso Paul Gilbert transcribed a section of The Four Seasons as a two-hand tapping solo.[citation needed]
- Part of Summer has been covered by heavy metal guitarists Alexi Laiho and Roope Latvala as a demonstration for Young Guitar Magazine.[citation needed]
- Yanni, the contemporary instrumental artist composed the song "The Storm" based on the Four Season Winter.[citation needed]
- The opening stanza was used in an Internet film called "The History of the F Word".
[edit] Games
- Spring was used in the videogame The Simpsons Hit and Run when drivers drive through the Stonecutter's Lodge.[citation needed]
- Winter was used in the videogame Ninety Nine Nights as the score for failing a mission. The Eternal Remix, a techno song that sampled from The Four Seasons, is the score for the Castle Varvazzarr mission.[citation needed]
- Winter was adapted into a trance remix named "V" for beatmania IIDX 5th style, and this one also adapted into a similar version called "V (for Extreme)" for Dance Dance Revolution Extreme.[citation needed]
- Spring, Summer, and Winter are featured in the soundtrack of the video game Saints Row.
- Winter is also used in a popular dance game, Pump it Up 3, as one of the songs.
[edit] Advertisements
- The National Bank of New Zealand uses the piece in its television advertisements.[citation needed]
- Parts of Spring was used by Israel Discount Bank in their radio commercials in 2001.[citation needed]
