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<DIV>Hi Anne and Elaine</DIV>
<DIV>While everyone reads or re-reads Katie Hafner's book - a link to a recent
interview with Verne Edquist - </DIV>
<DIV><A href="http://www.thestarphoenix.com/entertainment/movie-guide/Piano+tuner+unseen+artist/3379292/story.html">http://www.thestarphoenix.com/entertainment/movie-guide/Piano+tuner+unseen+artist/3379292/story.html</A></DIV>
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<DIV>In a message dated 8/9/2010 10:46:03 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
afrench6@cox.net writes:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>Great
post, Elaine. Now I want to read this book. And I do NOT
play the piano (at least not in public)... but the mechanics, tuning, all that
have always fascinated me. Also, I'll have to go back and read prior posts in
this thread, because the Tureck thing sounds fascinating too. So thank
you again.
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<DIV>Anne<BR><BR>
<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 8:36 PM, Elaine Parks <SPAN dir=ltr><<A title=mailto:elaine19c@yahoo.ca href="mailto:elaine19c@yahoo.ca">elaine19c@yahoo.ca</A>></SPAN> wrote:<BR>
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<TD vAlign=top>I'm not sure how familiar everyone is with Katie
Hafner's terrific book "A Romance on Three Legs: GG's Obsessive Quest
for the Perfect Piano". It's a must-read for those of you who actually
play the piano professionally and a really interesting book for the
rest of us. Anyway she describes Tureck literally experiencing a
revelation about Bach's music which led to her knowing she "had to
create an entirely new technique for playing the piano as a result";
and also that she certainly did some trailblazing in playing the
Goldbergs at Juilliard. Hafner does say Tureck was "put out by Gould's
achievement" and her Bach became "yesterday's news" when his Goldbergs
album made him a star.
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<DIV>I think it's somewhere in a radio interview Tureck very
graciously says something to the effect that she's flattered by
Gould's praise of her Bach; in another book (sorry I don't remember
which at the moment) it's recalled she said more bitterly "he played
them the way I did" or close to those words. One has to feel for
her.</DIV>
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<DIV>To return to Katie Hafner's book, she writes about GG's
superhuman speed and that "Gould's playing resembled Tureck's, but his
tone was more seductive, and his approach, especially in terms of
rhythm, was more dynamic...with one recording GG proved that he could
play the piano like nobody else in the world".</DIV>
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<DIV>Personally I find her version very beautiful and other-worldly
(is that a word?!) But I find his mesmerizing. Maybe it can rightly be
said that without her example, his GVs wouldn't have been the way they
were.</DIV>
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<DIV>That book gets a lot into the mechanics of how pianos were/are
made and what different famous pianists liked in the action/tone/keys
etc. of their pianos; and how a tuner spends literally dozens of years
perfecting his or her craft. Amazing stuff.</DIV>
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<DIV>Cheers, Elaine</DIV>
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<DIV><BR>--- On <B>Sat, 8/7/10, <A title=mailto:f_minor-request@glenngould.org href="mailto:f_minor-request@glenngould.org" target=_blank>f_minor-request@glenngould.org</A> <I><<A title=mailto:f_minor-request@glenngould.org href="mailto:f_minor-request@glenngould.org" target=_blank>f_minor-request@glenngould.org</A>></I></B>
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[f_minor] Tureck and Gould<BR>Message-ID: <<A title=http://mc/compose?to=SNT115-DS426C70159F1F8441B0C00C7920@phx.gbl href="http://mc/compose?to=SNT115-DS426C70159F1F8441B0C00C7920@phx.gbl" target=_blank>SNT115-DS426C70159F1F8441B0C00C7920@phx.gbl</A>><BR>Content-Type:
text/plain; charset="windows-1252"<BR><BR>Thank you, Elaine, for
your marvelous info. It's so nice to have a corroborating
guidance.<BR>For me (as my subjective opinion) Tureck's influence on
Gould goes without saying, <BR>and perhaps this is why the both
players go hand in hand on my list, without belittling others, as
the best female and male Bach player.<BR><BR>Have a good
weekend.<BR>SDC<BR><BR><BR><BR>From: Elaine Parks <BR>Date:
Thursday, August 05, 2010 2:17 PM<BR>To: <A title=http://mc/compose?to=f_minor@glenngould.org href="http://mc/compose?to=f_minor@glenngould.org" target=_blank>f_minor@glenngould.org</A> <BR>Subject: Re: [f_minor]
Tureck and Gould<BR><BR><BR> Indeed GG credits
Tureck with having greatly ifluenced his playing of Bach. You can
find one of these instances in Jonathan Cott's interviews
("Conversations with Glenn Gould"): "I did like Tureck's recordings
enormously - Tureck influenced me...she was the first person who
played Bach in what seemed to me a sensible way...playing of such
uprightness". <BR><BR><BR> Cheers,
Elaine<BR><BR> --- On Thu, 8/5/10, <A title=http://mc/compose?to=f_minor-request@glenngould.org href="http://mc/compose?to=f_minor-request@glenngould.org" target=_blank>f_minor-request@glenngould.org</A> <<A title=http://mc/compose?to=f_minor-request@glenngould.org href="http://mc/compose?to=f_minor-request@glenngould.org" target=_blank>f_minor-request@glenngould.org</A>>
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Wed, 4 Aug 2010 21:19:00 +0200<BR> From:
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charset="iso-8859-1"<BR><BR><BR> Believe
me, I'm not going to be banging on about this forever but if while
you're listening to this you are not also in mind of Gould's 1981-82
recording then pardon me but you haven't listened to Gould's second
Goldberg. <BR> Microsoft hotmail has does
something bizarre by offering a little video box at the beginning of
each email which I did not ask for. Forget that box and go to the
hyperlink instead.<BR><BR> <A title=http:///www.youtube.com/watch?v=HExHrFt2pPM&feature=related href="http:///www.youtube.com/watch?v=HExHrFt2pPM&feature=related" target=_blank>http:///www.youtube.com/watch?v=HExHrFt2pPM&feature=related</A><BR><BR>
Mary Jensen <BR>
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