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Re: GG: GG as vocalist
Tim conjectured extravagantly:
>Perhaps, to Gould, the sound produced when playing the piano was a
>secondary result. Perhaps the primary objective was to reproduce an
>interaction between hands and keyboard.
I differ. I think for GG it was interaction (as he has more or less said)
between keyboard and *mind*. What he sang -- no matter what it actually
sounded like -- was the musicin his mind, the ideal music, that which could
never be realised. I think.
- Alun
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