RE: GG: Homer Siberius

["Junichi Miyazawa" <Junichi_Miyazawa@msn.com>]

Thank you Klmmoor.
I did not know that "Homer" is a working-class name.
Does it remind you, native speakers of English, 
of the great Greek writer of *Illyad* and *Odyssey*?
If it does, the nickname for an authorative journalist/critic
sounds very ironical.

As for the newsgroup, it's a really shame.

Regards,

Junichi





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From: 	KImmoor@aol.com
Sent: 	Sunday, December 22, 1996 1:20 PM
To: 	Junichi Miyazawa; f_minor@email.rutgers.edu
Subject: 	Re: GG: Homer Siberius

   I had always heard the Schonberg nickname as "Homer Sibelius", as 
it is
spelled both in the Friedrich bio and the published coll. of selected
 Gould
letters. (Though, the collected letters book erroneously footnotes th
e
Sibelius nickname as one of Gould's alter egos.) I find this spelling
 to be a
bit more humorous - the juxtaposition of the working-class name 'Home
r' and
the composer's name, Sibelius. I've never come across the exact origi
n, but
Junichi, you might not be far off the track with the initials referen
ce, H.S.
 
   By the way, the Gould Bashing thread on the re.music.classical new
snet is
getting out of hand - some of the participants are resorting to outri
ght name
calling. Anyone with a sane perspective and a clear head for logical 
debate
might want to air their opinions, the Gould supporters are taking a b
eating
from the one-man army from Rutgers. Last time I checked, he had poste
d that
anyone who had ever bought a Gould recording was a victim of one of t
he
greatest charlatans in classical music. On a lighter note, before I s
tarted
eavesdropping on the fracas, I'd never heard a GG recording called
"vomit-inducing" before!