Re: GG:Glenn chat/Sony

["K. Berry" <kb@cs.umb.edu>]

    You could address these remarks to:

    Alun Taylor <Alun_Taylor@sonymusic.com>
    Marketing Manager, Sony Classical UK

Thanks for posting this address.  FWIW, here's the letter I just sent.
Hey, a couple hundred people is *definitely* a market force :-).


To: alun_taylor@sonymusic.com
Subject: Sony Glenn Gould releases

Greetings,

Your address was mentioned on f_minor, the Glenn Gould mailing list.  So
I'm writing with what I personally would wish Sony would consider
releasing:

1) Any unreleased Bach.  Surely this has the most commercial potential
of any possible Glenn Gould recording.  Looking at the lists of studio
sessions, concerts, and recordings in Gould's estate, I see that there
are a number of Bach works previously unreleased: most notably, a
substantial portion of the Art of Fugue (at least numbers 1, 2, 4, 6, 9,
11, 13, and 15); also, the St. Anne Fugue (BWV 552), Cantata BWV 54, the
Variations in Italian Style, and no doubt others I'm unaware of.

2) Any unreleased material by other composers.  I don't have anything in
particular in mind, but there must be some, and I know I would be much
more likely to buy a record consisting of largely or solely ``new''
material, while I cannot pay $20 for a total of 2 minutes of new music
spread among 2+ hours of old.

3) Complete, unexcerpted, videotapes of Gould's various TV shows.
Although Bruno Monsaingeon did an amazing job in editing together the
16+ hours in the Glenn Gould Collection, it just whets my appetite for
more.  Gould was on so many broadcasts; it would be wonderful to be able
to see them all.

4) The radio documentaries (other than the Solitude Trilogy, of course,
which is already available).  I'd love to listen to the Casals,
Schoenberg, and Stokowski documentaries, for example.

I realize Sony perhaps does not exclusively control what gets released,
but whatever could be done to present more of Gould's previously-unknown
work seems it would be well worthwhile commercially, historically, and
artistically.

Thanks for your time,

Karl Berry / 135 Center Hill Rd. / Plymouth, MA 02360 / USA
karl@cs.umb.edu