Mad Men (TV Series): Season 5 (2012) / Episode 11 "The Other Woman"

Mad Men (TV Series): Season 5 (2012) / Episode 11 "The Other Woman"
About 19:28 into the episode, Pete Campbell (played by Vincent Kartheiser) is sitting at home listening to music through what appear to be a pair of vintage Koss headphones (the episode takes place close to Christmas, 1966). When he removes the headphones to speak to his wife, music can be heard, faintly and tinnily leaking from the headphones, which now rest in his lap. The music is from the Adagio of Bruckner's Symphony 8, though that fact appears nowhere in the credits or on IMDb.com, let alone whose performance it might be. It's too bad that the only evident Brucknerphile on the show is so repellent a character as Campbell, but as we all know, Bruckner's music makes for strange bedfellows.

The audio clip is available below. Listen carefully!

My thanks to Richard Lehnert for this contribution (and the above narrative).


Download: madmenclip.mp3