<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Grande'" size="4">Dear all</font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Grande'" size="4"><br></font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Grande'" size="4">this is a reply to Mary who gave me some heads up, but not just</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Grande'" size="4"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Grande'" size="4">I tried to find some celebratory broadcasts on stations I know and like around the world. Result: Err, not much.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Grande'" size="4"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Grande'" size="4">Americans and Canadians are advised to check their affiliates for NPR, PBS and the CBC (whose website is utterly confusing). I do know the CBC is doing something but I can't find it anymore.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Grande'" size="4"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Grande'" size="4">Also nothing on BBC 3 Radio or ABC Oz which usually has good stuff on. </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Grande'" size="4"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Grande'" size="4">I must also disappoint readers in central Europe. arte, 3sat etc. have chosen to ignore GG's 80th for now. Our local public broadcaster here in CH will do a few features, but for these one must speak german, french or italian and at least one will be on for remembering his death ! Bugger ! </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Grande'" size="4"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Grande'" size="4">So either I missed summet or it is rather quiet on the airwaves when it comes to the birthday of one of the most talked about pianists of our time. </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Grande'" size="4"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Grande'" size="4">That raises a few questions. GG still sells but is he still important or relevant in a musical environment where even clowns like Lang Lang can become a mass media phenomenon ? Is his stuff past the sell-by date in terms of musical importance ? His writings out of date ? Are the 60s and 70s that far away that it seems on longer relevant to what he said about the art of recording back then ? Is GG History just like shellac recordings and black and white TV ? An antique, a fossil, a legend from ages past, now reduced to a Cult ? And what remains is the Hagiography (Mary, I got it this time) of the young Genius (ahem) playing the Goldbergs in the mind of radio schedule programmers and the classical music public ? Or are those media people just a bunch of ignorant louts who should know better ? or has someone just failed to promote his legacy correctly ?</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Grande'" size="4">So is GG still relevant for classical music or aspiring producers or is is just the level of aqqired taste that has gone down ? No nostalgia or hagiography, perhaps this question is unanswerable, but it would be nice to get closer to the truth I reckon….</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Grande'" size="4"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Grande'"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">Pat</font><br></font><div><div>Am 25.09.2012 um 16:41 schrieb Anita Monroe:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Stephanie, Nothing too serious. He did all kinds of routines, trying out different accents. That was a sign of the times. Many actors and comedians<div>in the 60's did this. It was a fad that went away. I think that he would have given it up too.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Anita<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 6:25 AM, Stephanie Wright <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:slynnwright83@gmail.com" target="_blank">slynnwright83@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p>Anita, What do you mean by, "he would have dropped the silly routines and found his voice?" </p><p>Stephanie<br></p><p>Please visit my piano studio site: <a href="http://stephaniewright.musicteachershelper.com/" target="_blank">http://stephaniewright.musicteachershelper.com/</a></p><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">
<div class="gmail_quote">On Sep 25, 2012 1:24 AM, "Anita Monroe" <<a href="mailto:rubatoatm@gmail.com" target="_blank">rubatoatm@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Mary, Lang Lang pounding away on CD 318? Surely not. Strangely enough LL started his American career here in Clemson. <span></span><div>He was sponsored by Clemson's program director. She is wild about him and he is beloved in this community. </div>
<div><br></div>I like to imagine what GG would have been like at age 80. He would probably dropped the silly routines, found his own voice<div>and contined to make beautiful recordings, maybe studying even more lost antique scores just like that wonderful Italian singer whose</div>
<div>name escapes me at the moment. Noone could have stopped him. (-:</div><div><br></div><div>Best, Anita<br><div><br>On Tuesday, September 25, 2012, maryellen jensen wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<br><font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">Pat, <br><br> Thanks for the heads up mate. It's Gould's big 80th today and I have nothing to offer from this part of the world.<br>I've searched Mezzo, Arte (tv) and Radio France Musique and Radio Suisse Romande: absolutely nothing programmed<br>
concerning Gould. There is one small "news bite" on Radio France Musique announcing Lang Lang's forthcoming 'concert'<br>on (I assume) GG's fabled CD 318:<br></font><br><a href="http://sites.radiofrance.fr/francemusique/actualite/article.php?postID=5375" target="_blank">Lang Lang sur le piano de Glenn Gould</a><ul>
<li><p>Lundi 24 Septembre 2012 10:50 <a href="http://sites.radiofrance.fr/francemusique/actualite/index.php?cat=d%C3%A9p%C3%AAches%20notes" target="_blank"> dépêches notes </a></p><p>par <strong>Rodolphe Bruneau-Boulmier</strong></p>
Le pianiste chinois, Lang Lang, a été invité a jouer sur le piano
de Glenn Gould pour fêter, demain, les 80 ans du pianiste à Toronto.
Précisons que Jean-François Zigel est également invité à toucher la
chose!<br></li></ul><br><br> <font style="font-size:12pt" size="3"><br></font><br><font style="font-size:12pt" size="3"> If anyone has news of special radio programming from anywhere please do pass it along to the rest of us here, it is appreciated.</font><br>
<font style="font-size:12pt" size="3"><br></font><br><font style="font-size:12pt" size="3">Mary Jensen<br></font><br><font style="font-size:12pt" size="3"> </font><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><div><div></div><hr>From: <a>pzumst@bluewin.ch</a><br>
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 19:27:51 +0200<br>To: <a>f_minor@glenngould.org</a><br>Subject: [f_minor] GG article in Der Spiegel and DLF Radio broadcasts<br>
<br><font size="4">Dear all</font><div><font size="4"><br></font><div><font size="4">This might be of concern for those of you who can speak or understand german. </font></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4">The german weekly newsmagazine Der Spiegel published an article regarding GG's 80th this week here:</font></div>
<div><font size="4"><a href="http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/musik/klavierlegende-glenn-gould-neuveroeffentlichungen-zum-80-geburtstag-a-856668.html" target="_blank">http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/musik/klavierlegende-glenn-gould-neuveroeffentlichungen-zum-80-geburtstag-a-856668.html</a></font></div>
<div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4">Usually this magazine is held in high respect, but James Dean at the piano ? My word indeed !</font></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4">This week german radio station Deutschlandfunk will broadcast a few GG specials during weekday afternoons which can be heard via web stream on their website:</font></div>
<div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4">Other radio stations in the german-speaking world are also paying tribute to GG either this or next week (including our national public broadcaster here in CH, which is Radio DRS) and further articles in the feuilletons are likely to follow. I shall post more details as I get them.</font></div>
<div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4">Pat</font></div></div><br></div> </div></div>
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