Re: GG: Scriabin

[Neil Tingley <neil@music.demon.co.uk>]

In message <M3776865.563.muze9.1.960429165503Z.CC-MAIL*/O=HQ/PRMD=USDOE/
ADMD=ATTMAIL/C=US/@MHS>, PHILIP.GARON@hq.doe.gov writes
>     
>     Someone recently wrote in to rec.music.classical that "Glenn 
>     Gould playing Scriabin is like setting the Pope loose in a room 
>     with Anna Nicole Smith."
>     
>     Maybe I'm dense, but I don't get the joke... (However, I haven't 
>     heard GG play Scriabin as yet.)

It's a dk joke. As incomprehensible as his views on Beethoven,
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