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Re: GG: Scriabin
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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