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<font style="font-size: 16pt;" size="4">Had it not been for a biography about Gould it would have taken me a hell of a lot longer to discover Alfred Deller. I admit it.<font style="font-size: 16pt;" size="4"> </font></font><font style="font-size: 16pt;" size="4">I also admit that I might never have liked listening to Schoenberg had it not been for Gould's enthusiasm. <br>So it's "Christmas" and one tends to be a little, well, sensitive to the joys and the sorrows of life and so I offer a little of the seriousness of life via Alfred Deller (forget about the video) :<br><br></font><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqwBB8Nut4s" class="newlyinsertedlink">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqwBB8Nut4s</a><font style="font-size: 16pt;" size="4"> <br><br><font style="font-size: 16pt;" size="4">20 little children. Suc<font style="font-size: 16pt;" size="4">h a thing. </font>So <b><u>stop</u></b> singing "Amazing Grace" for yourself America and begin singing some really sorrowful tunes.<font style="font-size: 16pt;" size="4"> Why not begin now?<font style="font-size: 16pt;" size="4"> Now, this Christmas. Join in, "Let me weep for ever weep". All together now - time to grow up and face yourselves.<br><br><font style="font-size: 16pt;" size="4">Again, without the Gould biography I'd probably never have "found" Alfred Deller - <u>thank you Glen Gold</u>.<br><br>Merry Christmas,<br>Mary</font></font></font> </font><br><br><br></font> </div></body>
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