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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">I asked the source and found out where
the quote is from:<br>
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"The Zany Genius of Glenn Gould: A Lively<br>
Portrait of Canada’s Cultural One-Man Show," published in the
magazine<br>
Holiday, Vol. 35/No. 4 (April 1964), pages 149-54 and 156.<br>
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Regards,<br>
Jorgen<br>
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<font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3">Didn't Gould actually
say it in traffic court in front of a judge? (Probably not).
I'm too lazy to look it up now.</font><br>
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<font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3">Mary</font><br>
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<div>Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2012 10:19:42 +0100<br>
From: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:bsi@intranette.de">bsi@intranette.de</a><br>
To: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:f_minor@glenngould.org">f_minor@glenngould.org</a><br>
Subject: Re: [f_minor] The Spectator, UK/Aus<br>
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Hello Tim, <br>
<br>
This remark about his "stopping at green lights and never
having gotten credit for it" is to be found in Kevin Bazzana's
biography "Wondrous Strange. The Life and Art of Glenn Gould"
(Oxford University Press 2004, see page 329). Yet, where this
information is from, is not mentioned explicitly. On the back
cover of the book it says: "Drawing on twenty years of
intensive research, including unrestricted access to Gould's
private papers and interviews with scores of friends and
colleagues, many of them never interviewed before, Bazzana
sheds new light on ..." So, one can assume it's part of one of
the interviewees' memories, I suppose.<br>
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Bruni<br>
Cologne, Germany<br>
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<div class="ecxmoz-cite-prefix">Am 01.11.2012 07:00, schrieb
Timothy Conway:<br>
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cite="mid:B9121105-273E-49BF-B25B-87B8F84E010D@comswest.net.au">
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="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>
<div style="font-family:Times"><span style="font-size:large"><br>
</span></div>
<div style="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>
<div style="font-size:9px;font-family:Times"><br>
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<div style="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>
<div style="font-size:9px;font-family:Times"><span
style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium"><br>
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<div style="font-size:9px;font-family:Times"><span
style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium"><br>
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<div style="font-size:9px;font-family:Times"><span
style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium">Tim
Conway</span></div>
<div style="font-size:9px;font-family:Times"><span
style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium">Geraldton,
Western Australia</span></div>
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