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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'><font style="font-size: 16pt;" face="Times New Roman,sans-serif" size="4">"Do I smell Politics? A PR stunt?</font><font style="font-size: 16pt;" face="Times New Roman,sans-serif" size="4">"</font><font style="font-size: 16pt;" face="Times New Roman,sans-serif" size="4"><br></font><font style="font-size: 16pt;" face="Times New Roman,sans-serif" size="4"><br></font><font style="font-size: 16pt;" face="Times New Roman,sans-serif" size="4">No Pat, you smell <b>nothing</b>. There is no <u>there</u> there.</font><font style="font-size: 16pt;" face="Times New Roman,sans-serif" size="4"> That's just exactly my point. All the Laureates of the GG Prize are 100% "safe", "time-tested", oh so incontestably "Worthy": <b>decades after the fact.<br><br>Nominate Radio France Musique for the next Glenn Gould Prize: <u>"Etonnez-nous". </u><br><br></b><font style="font-size: 12pt;" face="Calibri" size="3"><a href="http://www.francemusique.fr/player/resource/90873-93531">http://www.francemusique.fr/player/resource/90873-93531</a></font><b><br><br></b>Mary<b><br></b></font><br><div><hr id="stopSpelling">From: pzumst@bluewin.ch<br>To: f_minor@glenngould.org<br>Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2015 16:19:30 +0200<br>Subject: [f_minor] Knock Knock<br><br>
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<div>- Knock knock</div>
<div>- Who’s there ?</div>
<div><font style="size:7;">- Knock knock</font></div>
<div><font style="size:7;">- Who’s there ?</font></div>
<div><font style="size:7;">- Knock knock</font></div>
<div><font style="size:7;">- Who’s there ?</font></div>
<div><font style="size:7;">- Knock knock</font></div>
<div><font style="size:7;">- Who’s there ?</font></div>
<div><font style="size:7;">- Knock knock</font></div>
<div><font style="size:7;">- Who’s there ?</font></div>
<div><font style="size:7;">- Knock knock</font></div>
<div><font style="size:7;">- Who’s there ?</font></div>
<div>- Phil Glass</div>
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<div>....so, this year’s winner of the GG Prize has been announced and it is
Philipp Glass. </div>
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<div>As you all know, with a few exeptions Mr. Gould found that whole minimal
thing a bit dull and methinkst at one point he refered to it as 18th Century
Music or summet to that extent. (Personally I am not of that opinion, just for
the record. What counts here are the opinions of Mr. Gould.)</div>
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<div>So I wonder if this was a wise choice. </div>
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<div>Not that I have any grudges against Mr. Glass, far from it. </div>
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<div>Yet I reckon it should have gone to someone with a more “gouldian” approach
to music and technology than a former revolutionary composer from the 70s who
is past mainstream and maybe a bit antique by now. And who was parodied by
Mr. Gould in one of his rehearsal tapes. </div>
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<div>Or could it be that the Old Boys And Girls Network was in charge, decided
to give the prize to “one of us” without any regard whatsoever for any gouldian
context or the signals this is sending to the rest of the art world, be done
with it, proceed to the lunch buffet, safe in the knowledge that their names
will also be mentioned in blogs and articles around the interwebs together with
the famous laureate ? Do I smell Politics ? A PR stunt ? Why am I wondering if
dear old Pet Clarke has ever seen or heard Koyaniswhatever ?</div>
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<div>At least for me this announcement has a strange aftertaste and I really
dunno if Mr. Gould would be happy with the idea of giving a prize in his name to
Mr. Glass. Or giving out a prize in his name in general.</div>
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<div>Pat</div></div></div></div></div></div>
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