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Re: arrogant people.
Well, this was a fairly hostile message. I'm not sure it was directed
at me personally since it has been some time since I mailed the group,
but nonetheless it's not the kind of friendly message I am used to
seeing on this mailing list and which I enjoy so much.
My own interest in Mr. Gould, apart from his general expertise in 18th
century music, particularly Bach, is his expertise in baroque
ornamentation, particularly Bach. That is what really brings that
music to life, and it's so important to do this in an authentic way
while still developing your own personal style. And that, IMHO, is
what so many players, particularly students, have difficulty with.
Ironically, there's nothing particularly difficult about baroque
ornamentation, but it's like jazz: you can't play in the style if you
haven't listened and listened and listened.
And Mr. Gould's work, particularly Bach, is definitely the place to
start . . .
Mark
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Subject: Bored people.
Author: Matthew C Gamber <mgamber@bgnet.bgsu.edu> at internet
Date: 4/29/97 12:35 PM
When I subscribed to this discussion list, I suspected the bulk of the
conversation would include Glenn's work process, his theoroies on
interpretation and advancement, and an extention and application of them
into other media. Then after a deal of dissection and discovery, people
would gain some enlightenment from the spinoff of their own ideas and then
put concept into reality. I figured that a continuation of what he began
would be a proper form of memorial to suit the immortality that he always
wanted. This is not what I see here.
I see a public of fans who rival the kind of people Glenn wanted so
desperately to avoid. Subscribers risk turning him into an icon. It is
as though he is put in a cage on diplay with all of his unique
characteristics and he is observed like a baboon in the zoo. Though his
achievements were exceptional, he remains still, and always, a human like
you and I, subject to all the faults and weaknesses we all are.
In a quest to discover everything short of what time he urinated during
the day, I can't figure in why anyone would denouce any account, no matter
how insignificant (or slanderous) it may seem. If the a publication
doesn't live up to the glory of making him a hero, then it must be trash.
How can one learn all there is to know about someone or something if they
don't recieve every aspect from every angle possible. Kazdin spent close
to fifteen years working with the man. Still, people throw out his
account since it was not favorable towrds Glenn in every aspect.
I believe you people are bored and can't create your own life and instead
live vicariously through a dead man's private life to make up for the
lackluster of your own.
Quit stroking his head like he was your pet.
M. Gamber
Post script-
You people have a shallow sense of humor.