Re: GLENN GOULD BASHING!! (fwd)

[Dean Lampe <dlampe@tic.bisman.com>]

Hello all,

Pardon my brief explanation regarding the GG bashing thread which 
occurred on the newsgroup rec.music.classical in Nov-Dec.  This thread 
became rather heated and now has resulted in the forwarding of a post of 
mine on that thread to the Glenn Gould Discussion List and the f_minor 
group.  Actually, I received 4 different messages concerning this 
newgroup post in my email from the discussion list.  However, none of 
these four msgs from the discussion list were initiated by me.

During the GG bashing discussion on r.m.c., I was attempting to defend 
GG when another poster had suggested that Bernstein had mocked GG and 
actually made jokes at Gould's expense during his pre-performance 
speech to Brahms Piano Concerto #1.  Other posters (Eric Barnhill was 
one) then began supplying second, third and fourth hand information 
worded in a manner intended to make it appear as if they had actually 
heard the speech or the performance.  It was obvious to me that they had 
not heard either since the CD is sitting in my collection and I had 
heard and was familiar with both.

So, as a matter of fact, I was trolling when I had requested that Eric 
supply me with the information about the recording;  myself being almost 
certain that Eric did not have the (hard to find) recording to back up 
his mis-statements.  Sorry.... I know that's not nice to do.  But, at 
that point in the thread, I was getting rather grouchy.

Now, in an effort to clear up some other things;  the date of the 
recording which I have is 9.4.62 (April 9, 1962), on Melodram (Milano), 
#CDM 18002, and the recording, as I understand it, is not authorized for 
distribution in the USA because of royalty problems with either or all: 
Gould/Bernstein/NY Philharmonic.  There may be other recordings of 
this same performance which I am not familiar with.  I was lucky enough 
to find this one outside the USA.  
-- 
Best regards,
Dean



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