<font color='black' size='2' face='Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif'>I<font size="2">'ve heard that story from his lawyer, Stephen <font size="2">Posen. A<font size="2">nd I do believe it's true. It certainly sounds like something GG would say.<br>
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From: Timothy Conway <timcon@comswest.net.au><br>
To: Discussion of the Canadian pianist Glenn Gould. <f_minor@glenngould.org><br>
Sent: Thu, Nov 1, 2012 2:01 am<br>
Subject: [f_minor] The Spectator, UK/Aus<br>
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I subscribe to that virulent anti-liberal magazine The Spectator, although living in Australia what I get is The Australian Spectator, but it amounts to the same thing.
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<div>A recent (6th October 2012) 'DIARY' piece by Craig Brown had, inter alia, the following:</div>
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<div>"T<font size="4"><span style="font-family: Times; ">his week sees the 30th anniversary of the death (or 'untimely death', as death is now invariably known) </span></font><span style="font-size: large; font-family: Times; ">of Glenn Gould.The fame of most classical musicians tends to wither</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Times; "><font size="4">when they die. But Gould's seems to </font><span style="font-size: large; ">grow and grow: his grave is the most visited in Canada, he has appeared on </span><i style="font-size: large; ">The</i><span style="font-size: large; "> </span><i style="font-size: large; ">Simpsons, </i><span style="font-size: large; ">and not long ago in its apparently straight-faced list of The 100 Most Important Canadians in History, </span><i style="font-size: large; ">Maclean's </i><span style="font-size: large; ">magazine ranked him the No. 1 artist in the world. Such posthumous blossoming makes him rather closer to </span><span style="font-size: large; ">a rock star, which </span><span style="font-size: large; ">is, </span><span style="font-size: large; ">in all but the most literal sense, what he was. In fact, he makes most of today's rock stars look doggedly conventional. He hated Mozart, sunshine and Italian opera, and loved tomato ketchup, overcast skies and Petula Clark. He was a rabid hypochondriac, taking a briefcase of pills, a bottle of disinfectant and a blood-pressure kit </span><span style="font-size: large; ">with him wherever he went: he once hung up the phone when he heard his friend sneeze on the other end of the line.</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Times; "><font size="4">When he still performed in public — he grew to hate audiences, describing them as 'a force for evil' — Gould refused to wear the customary </font><span style="font-size: large; ">white tie and tails, preferring to appear in scruffy clothes and mismatched socks, his shoes held together by rubber bands. </span><span style="font-size: large; ">He would then play his piano from his special low chair, sitting just 14 inches from the ground, so that his knees were a good deal higher than his buttocks. </span><span style="font-size: large; ">Thirty years on. his fame has increased but for some reason his influence hasn't. Classical musicians remain studiously </span><span style="font-size: large; ">starchy. One might have expected Gould's influence to have liberated them, but </span><span style="font-size: large; ">far from </span><span style="font-size: large; ">it: </span><span style="font-size: large; ">the pious aura of the Sunday school still hangs over classical concerts. We should be grateful, though, that, in </span><span style="font-size: large; ">at least one area his influence has been </span><span style="font-size: large; ">so negligible. He was a rotten driver, generally driving with his legs crossed whilst singing and conducting from a score open on the passenger seat. He couldn't see what was wrong with it. </span><span style="font-size: large; ">"It's true that I've driven through a number of red lights on occasion," he once protested. </span><span style="font-size: large; ">"But on the</span><i style="font-size: large; "> </i><span style="font-size: large; ">other hand, I've stopped at a lot of green ones and never </span><span style="font-size: large; ">been given credit for </span><span style="font-size: large; ">i</span><span style="font-size: large; ">t."</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 9px; font-family: Times; "><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">That last comment about green lights had me laughing my mismatched socks off, but is it right? Does anyone know where it comes from?</span></div>
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