[Fwd: NYT classical music forum]

[Richard Phillips <riph@frontiernet.net>]

In case you missed this, it appeared in NYT classical music forum on
Sunday.





                Now, as fate would have it, it falls to us to be
            nostalgic about the artistry of Glenn Gould. And while I
            hope the brilliance of Gould never inspires the sort of
            narrow enthusiasm which blinded some to his genius, and
            which might impede the recognition of other young
            performers in the future, we cannot fail to see that
            Glenn Gould was a phenomenon so compelling, so unlike
            anything else in music in our time or any other time,
            that he will not be forgotten. In fact, I would hazard
            that if there is any twentieth-century performing
            musician who is still listened to five hundred years from
            now, it will be Glenn Gould. His recorded legacy is as
            close as I can imagine to being a permanent contribution
            to the history of musical art as any performer has
            produced since the invention of the phonograph.

            -- From The Ecstasy of Glenn Gould, by Denis Dutton

       Full essay (long) can be read at:
http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~mwatts/glenn/dutton.html