Re: arrogant people.

["Mark Williamson" <mwilliamson@alston.com>]

     Well, this was a fairly hostile message.  I'm not sure it was directed 
     at me personally since it has been some time since I mailed the group, 
     but nonetheless it's not the kind of friendly message I am used to 
     seeing on this mailing list and which I enjoy so much.
     
     My own interest in Mr. Gould, apart from his general expertise in 18th 
     century music, particularly Bach, is his expertise in baroque 
     ornamentation, particularly Bach.  That is what really brings that 
     music to life, and it's so important to do this in an authentic way 
     while still developing your own personal style.  And that, IMHO, is 
     what so many players, particularly students, have difficulty with.  
     Ironically, there's nothing particularly difficult about baroque 
     ornamentation, but it's like jazz:  you can't play in the style if you 
     haven't listened and listened and listened.
     
     And Mr. Gould's work, particularly Bach, is definitely the place to 
     start . . .
     
     Mark
     
     

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Subject: Bored people.
Author:  Matthew C Gamber <mgamber@bgnet.bgsu.edu> at internet
Date:    4/29/97 12:35 PM


     
When I subscribed to this discussion list, I suspected the bulk of the 
conversation would include Glenn's work process, his theoroies on 
interpretation and advancement, and an extention and application of them 
into other media.  Then after a deal of dissection and discovery, people 
would gain some enlightenment from the spinoff of their own ideas and then 
put concept into reality.  I figured that a continuation of what he began 
would be a proper form of memorial to suit the immortality that he always 
wanted. This is not what I see here.
     
I see a public of fans who rival the kind of people Glenn wanted so 
desperately to avoid.  Subscribers risk turning him into an icon.  It is 
as though he is put in a cage on diplay with all of his unique 
characteristics and he is observed like a baboon in the zoo.  Though his 
achievements were exceptional, he remains still, and always, a human like 
you and I, subject to all the faults and weaknesses we all are.  
     
In a quest to discover everything short of what time he urinated during 
the day, I can't figure in why anyone would denouce any account, no matter 
how insignificant (or slanderous) it may seem.  If the a publication 
doesn't live up to the glory of making him a hero, then it must be trash. 
How can one learn all there is to know about someone or something if they 
don't recieve every aspect from every angle possible.  Kazdin spent close 
to fifteen years working with the man.  Still, people throw out his 
account since it was not favorable towrds Glenn in every aspect. 
     
I believe you people are bored and can't create your own life and instead 
live vicariously through a dead man's private life to make up for the 
lackluster of your own.
     
Quit stroking his head like he was your pet.
     
     
M. Gamber
     
     
     
Post script-
     
You people have a shallow sense of humor.