Lynn and I were watching TV a couple of nights ago and saw this new Geico ad, from the series where they pair a real-life Geico customer with various semi-celebrities who "intrepret" the customer's story...we nearly fell off our sofa when we saw who the "real person" was in this ad:



For classical music fans, Alex Klein is the real celebrity; the former principal oboist of the Chicago Symphony, now professor at Oberlin and, fair to say, probably one of the handful of most virtuosic players of that instrument alive on the planet.