Re: [F_MINOR] GG the ghost! Is this for real?

[Peter Glenister <Peter.Glenister@MSVU.CA>]

Kate,

I'm replying to you directly as well as to the list because I've had
problems with posting to the list (receiving is OK) and am never sure
if what I send is delivered.

It seems Gould last performed the Goldbergs in public in Los
Angeles in April 1961 but I doubt that was recorded. So should the
date of the recording to be programmed have been 1961 or 1982
(meaning the year the 1981 recording was released)?

Peter

On 23 Apr 2005 at 2:43, Kate Clunies-Ross wrote:


    Greetings f minor

    Whilst browsing around Google News, I found the following
    story:

    http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=31&art_id=
    qw1114004522617B251

    Is it for real? !
    Here is a shortened version of the story that another site
    allowed me to 'copy and paste' :-

    ??Ghost world
    ????Music lovers in Raleigh, N.C., are set to witness an out-of-body
    experience next month: A pair of long-dead piano legends will be
    putting on a show.
    ????Well, maybe not in the flesh. The music will be played on a
    grand piano that has been specially programmed to give a note-
    perfect, live rendition of vintage recordings made by Alfred Cortot
    in 1928 and Glenn Gould in 1962.
    ????"The piano will replicate every note struck, down to the velocity
    of the hammer and position of the key when it was played,"
    promises British magazine New Scientist. ????
    ???? Compiled by Scott Galupo from staff and wire reports.
    ????22/4/05

    Yup, apparently some technological wizard has programmed
    a grand piano to reproduce precisely (so it is claimed) two
    long-ago performances by Alfred Cortot and Glenn Gould.
    They promise every nuance of the performance will be
    reproduced. But assuming this is true, why do it ? Maybe (re
    the copy of the Cortot recording) modern technology would
    have some improvements over a 1928 recording ...but re GG
    ...Surely he took such care with the production of his
    recordings that what we hear from them is, as far as possible,
    exactly what he wanted us to hear. OK, the new 'ghostly'
    performance will have no humming, but for me at least, that
    would be a sad loss. And in any case, what if the piano itself
    is not an instrument that would have met GG's precise
    requirements?
    The main story gives details of the type of piano used and
    also says that the Gould recording that will be reproduced is
    one that he made of the Goldbergs in 1962. Wow! Now its
    news to me that he even made a recording of the Goldbergs
    in 1962. Ive got the '55 and '81 recordings, and the Salzburg
    one ....but 1962 ???
    Apparently the latest copy of the British New Scientist
    magazine has the full story. I'd better look out for a copy.

    Kate

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