[f_minor] honouring GG
Kpapademas at aol.com
Kpapademas at aol.com
Thu May 26 23:39:27 EDT 2011
Hi Elaine - one of my favorite albums (and aren't they all favorites) by GG
is the Sibelius album. And I love the Inventions too (each note like a
clear bell!).
I know you live in Toronto: check out
_http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L40LlSGMC8A_ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L40LlSGMC8A) (Wm Byrd's
Sellinger's round).
I was planning to drive to Toronto and visit GG's grave on Memorial Day
(as I did two years ago) - but tied up with work. Glad you were able to make
it.
I sent some ideas to John Miller, but haven't heard a response. Is there
a special website?
Your chair sounds beautiful.
K
In a message dated 5/26/2011 9:16:02 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
elaine19c at yahoo.ca writes:
Hi Fred, Maryellen, and others,
Have you been sending your ideas about honouring GG to Stratford? It was
such a nice invitation. I am busy designing a GG chair of wrought iron, with
notes and scales and flowers, and wild animals entwined...I sent in my
idea but have to actually make a proper representation of it.
The music is endlessly appealing, isn't it? The Bach is untouchable! I
drive myself nutty with it. Right now I'm listening to the Inventions and
Sinfonias. Does anybody else get chills listening to Glenn's "Kyllikki"
(Sibelius)? But I have to say his version of Gibbons' "Lord of Salisbury" takes me
the closest to heaven.
Last weekend I managed a trip to the gravesite again. There are wild
violets there now. Someone had picked a few and put them there with some
dandylions, it was quite touching.
Regards, Elaine
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For Fred Houpt and anyone else who is a little surprised: perhaps I should
have mentioned that these lectures are strictly audio. There is nothing
wrong with your computer nor with the link.
The Wigmore Hall site offers even more: Haydn. The lecture on piano Sonata
No. 62 is my favourite but all three are worth the airtime:
_http://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/interact/wigmore-hall-podcasts/andr?s-schiff
-explores-haydn_
(http://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/interact/wigmore-hall-podcasts/andr?s-schiff-explores-haydn)
Mary
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Morning all. I listened to one of the Beethoven lectures over the
weekend, at home. It was delicious and wonderful.
Last night I dusted off my DVD copy of "Hereafter", which I had not seen
in a few years. Of course I was overwhelmed with great emotion and found
myself in tears at the incredible beauty of the music making, laughing at
his sense of humor and in awe of his intellect, which I think is still not
properly appreciated by his fellow artists. I say this because the die-hards
have not fallen out of love or respect. He deserves more recognition from
other artists, giving Gould the credit due, acknowledging that his
artistic approach, filled with extremes as they were, all were entirely
underwritten by a deeply passionate desire to know the inner realms of the musical
thoughts. I do not know that GG was the first philosophical musical prodigy,
but for me he is the most important.
Another impression I get from the documentary is that GG often achieved
levels of altered states of consciousness and from these highly charged and
ecstatic states he was able to see the music as if for the first time; even
more, his insights totally informed the manner in which he approached
interpretation. The section where he explains the "why" of his infamous Mozart
sonata approach I found myself finally understanding a bit more, why his
interpretation was acceptable within the strict agenda that his approach had
set for itself. His objective was to turn the overly familiar sonata
inside out and deeply examine the architecture of the theme as it evolves
through exposition. He is not the only one to search for these types of
insights and he is often remembered as having too much recourse to gross
exaggeration in order to make his points. However, once one has finally grasped some
of the insights that his performances afford us, we are better off and
our artistic apprec!
iation is deeper. What can possibly be found in such a journey? That is
one reason I can never be away from listening to GG. There is so much
there to contemplate and be enlightened by.
cheers,
Fred Houpt
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Subject: [f_minor] Not Gould but...
For Fred Houpt and anyone else who is a little surprised: perhaps I should
have mentioned that these lectures are strictly audio. There is nothing
wrong with your computer nor with the link.
The Wigmore Hall site offers even more: Haydn. The lecture on piano Sonata
No. 62 is my favourite but all three are worth the airtime:
_http://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/interact/wigmore-hall-podcasts/andr?s-schiff
-explores-haydn_
(http://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/interact/wigmore-hall-podcasts/andr?s-schiff-explores-haydn)
<_http://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/interact/wigmore-hall-podcasts/andr%C3%A1s-schiff-explores-haydn_
(http://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/interact/wigmore-hall-podcasts/andrás-schiff-explores-haydn)
>
Mary
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