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<DIV>Hi all</DIV>
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<DIV>Mary made a reference to british composer and musician Brian Eno, probably
most famous for his absolutely brilliant ambient recordings.</DIV>
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<DIV>Eno has admitted at least once that he greatly admired Glenn Gould.
something along the lines that he (GG) used the same piano for years on
end</DIV>
<DIV>and that they both saw the recording studio as an additional instrument.
Eno is of the opinion that it is sometimes more interesting to play an untuned
guitar or simply let an instrument deteriorate for a while and see what happens.
He is also known to be a perfectionist. Eno probably misunderstood GG’s
intentions or maybe he got it and I am just too daft.</DIV>
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<DIV>For here, ladies, gentlemen and other sufferers from a current heat wave,
is a paradox. We have talked about GG’s perfectionism some time ago with
interesting posts by Jörgen Lundmark and Bob Merkin and most probably some other
people as well.</DIV>
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<DIV>How come a man who was a prefectionist to the level of Control Freak when
it came to playing and recording his music hung on to the same piano for years,
even when it had been severely damaged in the early 70s and it would probably
have been cheaper and easier to find a new one that would fit the high standards
of Mr. Gould ? Instead he spent money on expensive repairs, renovations etc and
he even made a recording on that bleeding harpspiano or whatever that
monstrosity is called bacause CD318 was not available. Sheer sentimentality ?
Fear of the New Unknown Instrument ?</DIV>
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<DIV>Call me daft, I don’t get that. GG has often been described as “enigmatic”
in some of his opinions and Mary will probably scold me for that one, but could
it be that this is just one of these little puzzles that make this personatlity
so interesting to study ? Or is it really just too hot and I can’t think
logically ?</DIV>
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<DIV>Pat</DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
title=maryellenjensen28@hotmail.com
href="mailto:maryellenjensen28@hotmail.com">maryellen jensen</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, July 23, 2013 8:53 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=f_minor@glenngould.org
href="mailto:f_minor@glenngould.org">f_minor@glenngould.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [f_minor] and I swore I wouldn't</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt" size=4 face="Times New Roman">Peter
Glenister and Nuncle Pat thanks for braving the melting European heatwave
("Fright X" on the sidewalks is an understatement) with your
correspondence.</FONT><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt" size=4
face="Times New Roman"><BR></FONT><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt" size=4
face="Times New Roman"><BR></FONT><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt" size=4
face="Times New Roman">I'm amazed no one has "pulled me up" on my spelling
"renown" with the Special </FONT><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt" size=4
face="Times New Roman"><U>K</U></FONT><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt" size=4
face="Times New Roman"> - which is wrong.</FONT><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt"
size=4 face="Times New Roman"><BR></FONT><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt" size=4
face="Times New Roman"><BR></FONT><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt" size=4
face="Times New Roman">Such fun with Tom Lehrer (didn't he also do that
brilliant anti-Christmas tune sung so lyrically by Christopher
Hitchens?)<BR></FONT><BR><A class=newlyinsertedlink
href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZJ0mo0r3zs">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZJ0mo0r3zs</A><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt" size=4
face="Times New Roman"><BR><BR><BR>...</FONT><U><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt"
size=4 face="Times New Roman">but</FONT></U><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt" size=4
face="Times New Roman"><BR></FONT><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt" size=4
face="Times New Roman"><BR></FONT><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt" size=4
face="Times New Roman">"Alma soon became resentful that, on Mahler's insistence
that there could only be one composer in the family, she had given up her music
studies. She wrote in her diary: "How hard it is to be so mercilessly deprived
of ... things closest to one's heart". Mahler's requirement that their married
life be organised around his creative activities imposed strains, and
precipitated rebellion on Alma's part; the marriage was nevertheless marked at
times by expressions of considerable passion, particularly from
Mahler.</FONT><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt" size=4
face="Times New Roman">" That's a Wikipedia quote.</FONT><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt" size=4 face="Times New Roman"><BR></FONT><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt" size=4 face="Times New Roman"><BR></FONT><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt" size=4 face="Times New Roman">You'll remember
</FONT><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt" size=4 face="Times New Roman"><U>Cornelia
Foss</U></FONT><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt" size=4 face="Times New Roman">
complaining of the same sort of "prohibition" thrown up against the pursuance of
her own art because of some weird edict issued by Glenn Gould... the same sort
of "You're here for me" mentality of Mahler. (So Cornelia left. So Alma
found other avenues.)</FONT><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt" size=4
face="Times New Roman"><BR></FONT><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt" size=4
face="Times New Roman"><BR></FONT><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt" size=4
face="Times New Roman">To be 100% honest I still cannot figure out exactly
whether Gould's "review" of de la Grange's "Mahler Volume One" was written
tongue in cheek or not...but then again Gould was a Past Master at
"passive/aggressive" behaviour in his personal/professional life.</FONT><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt" size=4 face="Times New Roman"> Of course he was always
right, right? (il avait toujours raison...) <B>Ha ha ha.</B><BR><BR><BR>Another
"Alma" (<U>old</U> Manzanera-Eno stuff) but also try out "<U>Miss Shapiro</U>"
and "<U>Big Day</U>" all you <I>modern</I> Brian Eno
fans:<BR></FONT><BR><A class=newlyinsertedlink
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVnSGwiZmAA">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVnSGwiZmAA</A><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt" size=4 face="Times New Roman"><BR><BR><BR>Hell, it's
summer <BR>Mary<BR></FONT><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt" size=4
face="Times New Roman"><BR></FONT><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt" size=4
face="Times New Roman"><BR></FONT><BR><BR><BR> <BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>
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From: Peter.Glenister@msvu.ca<BR>To: f_minor@glenngould.org<BR>Date: Tue, 23 Jul
2013 17:43:17 +0000<BR>Subject: Re: [f_minor] and I swore I wouldn't<BR><BR>
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of course, the best and most musical "tribute" to Alma is by Tom Lehrer:<BR><A
href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hH4J8CIBc7Q"
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face=Tahoma><B>From:</B> f_minor [f_minor-bounces@glenngould.org] on behalf of
Pat [pzumst@bluewin.ch]<BR><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, July 23, 2013 2:26
PM<BR><B>To:</B> f_minor@glenngould.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [f_minor] and I
swore I wouldn't<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<DIV>Hi all</DIV>
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<DIV>Mary is right, as usual.</DIV>
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<DIV>Alma Mahler wasn’t exactly an angel, more of what the locals in my rural
hamlet call “house dragon” and if memory serves right she later made some rude
remarks about her late husband. Not that he was beyond any doubts, he tended to
fits of rage, shouting matches that make Toscanini look very well behaved, and
probably neurosis. Then again his life wasn’t exactly easy. Isolation,
depression, antisemitism, ignorance, summet that looks like a difficult
marriage, the loss of his beloved daughter and later terminal illness. Doesn’t
sound like a lot of fun, from where he took the energy to write some of the most
interesting and intense music of the last century is beyond me. But then, what
do I know ?</DIV>
<DIV><A title=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kf8lDWsOgWg
href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kf8lDWsOgWg"
target=_blank>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kf8lDWsOgWg</A></DIV>
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<DIV>And before someone complains that there is no GG in this post, here are
some elephants:</DIV>
<DIV><A title=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57kR6RsV2iA
href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57kR6RsV2iA"
target=_blank>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57kR6RsV2iA</A></DIV>
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<DIV>Pat</DIV>
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<DIV><B>From:</B> <A title=maryellenjensen28@hotmail.com
href="mailto:maryellenjensen28@hotmail.com" target=_blank>maryellen jensen</A>
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<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Monday, July 22, 2013 9:12 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=f_minor@glenngould.org
href="mailto:f_minor@glenngould.org" target=_blank>f_minor@glenngould.org</A>
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<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [f_minor] and I swore I wouldn't</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt" size=4 face="Times New Roman">Thanks
for the vote of confidence (on Bernstein/Mahler) Nuncle Pat. </FONT><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt" size=4 face="Times New Roman"><BR></FONT><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt" size=4 face="Times New Roman"><BR></FONT><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt" size=4 face="Times New Roman">"He didn’t think in
musical categories, he thought in Music. You can say about him what you want,
but he was a very clever man."</FONT><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt" size=4
face="Times New Roman"><BR></FONT><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt" size=4
face="Times New Roman">That goes for both Bernstein and Mahler...</FONT><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt" size=4 face="Times New Roman"><BR></FONT><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt" size=4 face="Times New Roman">I have recently finished
re-reading Jonathan Cott's "Dinner with Lenny: the last long interview with
Leonard Bernstein". For those of you curious <U>only</U> as to what "Leonardo"
has to say about GG I shall reveal just this: before the last long interview
begins, Cott is admiring the diverse photos, drawings and paintings arrayed in
Bernstein's Fairfield Connecticut "barn-red music studio (formerly a spacious
groom's quarters)" adjacent to the 1750's farmhouse. Pointing out a photograph
of Glenn Gould Bernstein remarked: "There he is, my man, my baby!" Get
yourself a copy of the book to find out more and more and more.</FONT><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt" size=4 face="Times New Roman"><BR></FONT><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt" size=4 face="Times New Roman"><BR></FONT><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt" size=4 face="Times New Roman">Radio France Musique is
presenting a 5 part series on Bernstein, with a lot of "Leonardo" at the piano -
GLORY !</FONT><FONT face="Times New Roman"><BR></FONT><BR><A
href="http://www.francemusique.fr/emission/les-riches-heures-de-l-orchestre-national-de-france/2013-ete/leonard-bernstein-1-5-par-jean-pierre-derrien-07-22-2013"
target=_blank>http://www.francemusique.fr/emission/les-riches-heures-de-l-orchestre-national-de-france/2013-ete/leonard-bernstein-1-5-par-jean-pierre-derrien-07-22-2013</A><BR><BR><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt" size=4 face="Times New Roman">- just press the little
white triangle under "reecouter"</FONT><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt" size=4
face="Times New Roman">.<BR></FONT><BR><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt" size=4
face="Times New Roman"><BR>As for what GG had to say in his "Data Bank on the
Upward-Scuttling Mahler" (a book review of "Mahler: Volume One by Henry-Louis de
la Grange): "...his works do impose unusual musical and psychological demands
upon the auditor." "However disillusioning the revelation, the mass of data de
la Grange has subpoenaed suggests that, notwithstanding his celebrations of the
joys of rusticity, his Tolkienesque attachment to a poetry peopled by nymphs and
gnomes, Gustav Mahler was a very nasty man - relentlessly opportunistic,
blithely indifferent to the fragility of any ego other than his own."
Takes one to know one Mr. Gould - "blithely indifferent" - indeed. As for
Mahler's marriage to Alma, Mr. Gould - that reknowned expert practitioner
of finesse in all aspects of sex, love and happiness - remarks that Volume
One "draws to a close as the composer is about to commit the major blunder
of his life: his marriage to the twenty-three-year-old concert-hall courtesan
Alma Schindler." Perhaps Mahler should have instead sought solace with the
wife of a close friend and her children? For a while anyway?? N'est-ce pas?
<BR><BR></FONT><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt" size=4
face="Times New Roman">Mary</FONT><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt" size=4
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From: pzumst@bluewin.ch<BR>To: f_minor@glenngould.org<BR>Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2013
12:53:22 +0200<BR>Subject: Re: [f_minor] and I swore I wouldn't<BR><BR>
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<DIV>Mary, good thing you did ! Mahler deserves to be heard. The music is not
exactly easy since it ranges from Absolute Joy to Infinite Sadness and you get a
mix of various styles, but it is definetly something woth diving into. And good
old Lenny might be the best intepretor of Mahler’s music one could imagine. He
didn’t think in musical categories, he thought in Music. You can say about him
what you want, but he was a very clever man.</DIV>
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<DIV>And just in case you are new to classical music or only a casual listener I
would highly recommend Lenny’s Concerts for Young People series probably on utub
or DVD. This stuff was made for louts like me in mind. How come there’s nothing
like that on TV anymore ?</DIV>
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<DIV>Mr. Gould also had a few things to say about Mahler somewhere in his
essays, if I only knew where my GG Reader is...</DIV>
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<DIV>Pat</DIV>
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<DIV><B>From:</B> <A title=maryellenjensen28@hotmail.com
href="mailto:maryellenjensen28@hotmail.com" target=_blank>maryellen jensen</A>
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<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Friday, July 12, 2013 3:04 AM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=f_minor@glenngould.org
href="mailto:f_minor@glenngould.org" target=_blank>f_minor@glenngould.org</A>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt" size=4>7th of July 2013 </FONT><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt" size=4>:</FONT><BR><BR><BR><A
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvBbe8Nkgz8"
target=_blank>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvBbe8Nkgz8</A><BR><BR><BR><BR><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt" size=4>My young Belgian neighbour Virgile (20 years old)
shares the same birthdate and he has fallen in love with Mahler.</FONT><FONT
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size=4><BR></FONT><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt" size=4>Mary</FONT><BR></DIV><BR>
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