21.11.06

IT'S NOT NATIVE OR EVEN AMERICAN. The signature tune for the Tom-Tom personal navigation system (which I just heard in a television commercial) is Albert Ketèlbey's In A Persian Market. Maestro Ketèlbey is British, from about the same era as Edward Elgar and Gustav Holst. Will personal navigation systems render the use of map and compass a lost art?

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