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>>>>>>>Sometimes the biographies, by
going into
meticulous details and unproveable theories, forget to humanize
Glenn Gould.
That, to me, is a loss.>>>
Exactly.
Even Glenn once said that the best biographies about a person weren't ones
about what the person did or what others think about him,
but instead what the person thought and felt. That was what really
mattered.
Zeldah
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Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 9:40
PM
Subject: Weird GG Question
Don't even look at this if you don't like those "trivial"
questions... ;->
I don't know why this hit me, but now that I
thought of it, I cant' stop
wondering. What type of music do you think
Glenn Gould played when he had a
female visitor over, and he was trying to
get her in the right (ahem) mood?
Do you think he played his Brahms
Intermezzi? (He did say he thought they
were "sexy," but I'm not sure he
meant it in _that_ sense.) Wagner? Petula
Clark? Streisand? He didn't like
Romantic music. (While I often like
Romantic music, it isn't always
romantic in the general sense as it's often
too stormy. I can see why
someone like GG might be appalled at the idea of
a stormy romance!) So what
was the kind of music that he would think was
lush and
passionate?
Yes, I know this is silly and trivial. But is this really
preferable to the
biographies, which treat Glenn Gould as if he really were
the Last Puritan,
as if he never so much as went on a date? Sometimes the
biographies, by
going into meticulous details and unproveable theories,
forget to humanize
Glenn Gould. That, to me, is a loss.
Anne M.
Marble
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