Re: GG Gibbbons/Byrd

[kimmoor@mindspring.com (Kristen Immoor)]

>To Kristen Immor, the Italian Ground sounds like a good bet for a
>processional. I often thought that GG's treatment of the first few notes is
>almost triumphant--his attack (with tempi acknowledgement to Bradley)--is
>processional. I can almost hear 'flatt trumpets'. I caution you, Kristen,
>that in a church, the organist's humming might be lost--and then it would
>not capture the essential Gould...!

It had better sound triumphant, because me getting married is going to be a major victory!
Oh, and don't tell Sony, but I plan to just play the cd - I want Gould's humming to be echoing off the walls! ;-)




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"I've never had to work very hard convincing myself of a hereafter. After all, don't you think it seems infinitely more plausible than its opposite... oblivion?"   -Glenn Gould