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<DIV><FONT size=4 face="Courier New">Slave to Mozart -- GG's -- though I am, the
"Consort" of Byrd and Gibbons (the original vinyl -- the CD reissue has a
different playlist) has to be my maximum moment of Beauty from his recorded
fingers. And I'd never heard of these guys before.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4 face="Courier New">If I were on that desert island, and only
one song came out of the juke box, I'd punch Byrd's "Sellinger's
Round." Here's a Canadian pianist you may be familiar with playing
it:<BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4 face="Courier New"><A
href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyfZOZwuFM8&feature=related">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyfZOZwuFM8&feature=related</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4 face="Courier New">Very clean sound for a YouTube. Just 3
comments:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial><STRONG>Exquisite!</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial><STRONG>this sound comes from above.</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial><STRONG>Splendid!</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4 face="Courier New">Maybe somebody who knows something about
music can explain why it's so beautiful. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4 face="Courier New">Or maybe someone can find the
rumored secret coded messages to Byrd's outlawed fellow
Catholics.</FONT></DIV>
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face="Courier New">Bob</FONT></DIV></FONT>
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style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=pzumst@bluewin.ch href="mailto:pzumst@bluewin.ch">pzumst</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=f_minor@glenngould.org
href="mailto:f_minor@glenngould.org">Discussion of the Canadian pianist Glenn
Gould.</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, August 18, 2010 5:45
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [f_minor] On The Island / Off
The Island</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Calibri>G'day all</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Calibri>Found the following quite atrributed to GG in
WikiQuotes</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG>I think that if I were required to spend the rest of my life on a
desert island, and to listen to or play the music of any one composer during
all that time, that composer would almost certainly be Bach.</STRONG> I really
can't think of any other music which is so all-encompassing, which moves me so
deeply and so consistently, and which, to use a rather imprecise word, is
valuable beyond all of its skill and brilliance for something more meaningful
than that -- its humanity. </DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Calibri>Hmm. If he had a choice of say 8 records (like in the
real Desert Island Disc show) he would also take Byrd & Gibbons, I think
he claimed somewhere that this was his favourite own recording. Isn't there an
aticle in the GG Reader about this subject ? Then again, Gg claimed lots of
things so we'll never know for sure..</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Calibri>Pat</FONT></DIV>
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