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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'><font style="font-size: 16pt;" face="Times New Roman" size="4">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;" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><br></font><font style="font-size: 16pt;" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><br></font><font style="font-size: 16pt;" face="Times New Roman" size="4">I'm amazed no one has "pulled me up" on my spelling "renown" with the Special </font><font style="font-size: 16pt;" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><u>K</u></font><font style="font-size: 16pt;" face="Times New Roman" size="4"> - which is wrong.</font><font style="font-size: 16pt;" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><br></font><font style="font-size: 16pt;" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><br></font><font style="font-size: 16pt;" face="Times New Roman" size="4">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 href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZJ0mo0r3zs" class="newlyinsertedlink">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZJ0mo0r3zs</a><font style="font-size: 16pt;" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><br><br><br>...</font><u><font style="font-size: 16pt;" face="Times New Roman" size="4">but</font></u><font style="font-size: 16pt;" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><br></font><font style="font-size: 16pt;" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><br></font><font style="font-size: 16pt;" face="Times New Roman" size="4">"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;" face="Times New Roman" size="4">" That's a Wikipedia quote.</font><font style="font-size: 16pt;" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><br></font><font style="font-size: 16pt;" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><br></font><font style="font-size: 16pt;" face="Times New Roman" size="4">You'll remember </font><font style="font-size: 16pt;" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><u>Cornelia Foss</u></font><font style="font-size: 16pt;" face="Times New Roman" size="4"> 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;" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><br></font><font style="font-size: 16pt;" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><br></font><font style="font-size: 16pt;" face="Times New Roman" size="4">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;" face="Times New Roman" size="4"> 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 href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVnSGwiZmAA" class="newlyinsertedlink">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVnSGwiZmAA</a><font style="font-size: 16pt;" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><br><br><br>Hell, it's summer <br>Mary<br></font><font style="font-size: 16pt;" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><br></font><font style="font-size: 16pt;" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><br></font><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br><div><hr id="stopSpelling">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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<div style="direction:ltr;font-family:Tahoma;color:#000000;font-size:10pt;">And, of course, the best and most musical "tribute" to Alma is by Tom Lehrer:<br>
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, July 23, 2013 2:26 PM<br>
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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 style=""><b>From:</b> <a title="maryellenjensen28@hotmail.com" href="mailto:maryellenjensen28@hotmail.com" target="_blank">
maryellen jensen</a> </div>
<div><b>Sent:</b> Monday, July 22, 2013 9:12 PM</div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font style="font-size:16pt;" face="Times New Roman" size="4">Thanks for the vote of confidence (on Bernstein/Mahler) Nuncle Pat.
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</font><font style="font-size:16pt;" face="Times New Roman" size="4">"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;" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><br>
</font><font style="font-size:16pt;" face="Times New Roman" size="4">That goes for both Bernstein and Mahler...</font><font style="font-size:16pt;" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><br>
</font><font style="font-size:16pt;" face="Times New Roman" size="4">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;" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><br>
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</font><font style="font-size:16pt;" face="Times New Roman" size="4">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>
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<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>
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<font style="font-size:16pt;" face="Times New Roman" size="4">- just press the little white triangle under "reecouter"</font><font style="font-size:16pt;" face="Times New Roman" size="4">.<br>
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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?
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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>
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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><b>From:</b> <a title="maryellenjensen28@hotmail.com" href="mailto:maryellenjensen28@hotmail.com" target="_blank">
maryellen jensen</a> </div>
<div><b>Sent:</b> Friday, July 12, 2013 3:04 AM</div>
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<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 style="font-size:16pt;" size="4"><br>
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