

Re: [F_minor] GG Gets Watch / F Minor

Good heavens! Mary, my posting wasn't even *about* your e-mail, so how can I be blamed for "failing to address the point" of it? Apparently I have really rubbed you the wrong way, and I'm sorry.

My posting was only about the article whose link somebody else posted. This one:
I read the article, found nothing in it about Gould that hadn't been said more than 20 years ago (many times over), and I ventured an opinion that it looked like an insta-article: a bunch of retread observations with a few new numbers pasted into it. So? The Gould literature is large, and readily available. If a fluff piece like that article gets some new readers to venture into reading further, great! If it gets more people listening to his recordings, great! It's still not a particularly strong article on its own, in my opinion.

I've been a Gould fan for 30 years, and I still listen with pleasure to most of his work...especially that Beethoven 4th concerto, where you said (in a completely different thread) that somebody took a steak knife to the disc. I'm not "dismissing Gould's place in history" as alleged, and I fail to see how my comments were rude!

Gould's own article about his pseudo-scientific experiment (throwing some find-the-splice games at a small set of acquaintances) was first published in 1975, as I pointed out. It is "The grass is always greener in the outtakes: an experiment in listening" at pages 357-368 in the _Glenn Gould Reader_. It's worth reading, to see what Gould himself wrote, not just taking the word of that LA Times article. Again, I don't see how it is "rude" to present this information for any here who may be interested in it.

Brad (not "Sheriff") Lehman

maryellen jensen wrote:






I have to go to bed, I can't think anymore.
1,000 thanks for the Torontoist.
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