Re: Rachmaninoff?

[rkim@POMONA.EDU]

	This (see below) is getting remarkably silly. Knock it off. If you
want to argue in a uselessly polemic way with one another, do it in
private. I don't need these messages crowding my mail box.


Ray


> 
>      Are you by any chance related to that MGamber person who thought so
> highly of this list about two weeks ago?  The grammar that you use and
> your intellectual posturing reminds me somewhat of him. 
> If so, please stop these really bad posts.  If not, keep working on the
> old c# Prelude and all those wonderful Etudes-Tableaux.  This is my last
> post on Rachmaninoff.   Thank you.
> 
> 
> 
> > It is such a change from wondering about what haemorrhoid ointment Gould
> > might have used while sitting on his non-ergonomic chair; what biscuit he
> > might have consumed with what strange beverage; or, as now, what
> > contraindications and side-effects might have been published at the time he
> > was living about the medications he used.  The latter subject is of
> > historical interest if only to demonstrate how much further knowledge has
> > been accumulated about drugs since his time.> 
> > I thought I was rather circumspect using the conditional voice or whatever
> > in talking about "the voice of a spoilt brat".  The person who responded to
> > me is correct.  I should have checked with him or her first to see whether
> > he or she was a spoilt brat, a spoilt non-brat, or a non-spoilt non-brat.  I
> > did not regard what I wrote as an accusation or a personal attack.  Anyway,
> > it was pretty mild.
> > 
> > I agree that Gould never said he did not like Rachmaninoff - at least, based
> > on the sources I have at my disposal.  But the fact he did not play
> > Rachmaninoff suggests something.  Oh, I forgot.  I'm not supposed to mention
> > Rachmaninoff - another of my personal heroes - again.  Except to say that I
> > agreed with the comments made about poor David Helfgott.  I am afraid his
> > recorded performances of Rachmaninoff works are extremely disappointing to
> > put it mildly and he is hardly a fitting musical ambassador for Australia
> > (or is that too elitist and politically incorrect?).  My music teacher
> > attended a concert by him here in Canberra a few months ago and seemed to be
> > rather impressed.  He did say, at the time, that Helfgott did things with
> > the second sonata which he had never heard done before.  Well, I would go
> > along with that.  He does things that one would not ever want done to the
> > second sonata - even if one hated it.
> > 
> > Finally, I am surprised that anyone could have been insulted by my comment
> > that those who take on all the opinions and prejudices of Gould are pathetic
> > - perhaps bordering on the pathological.  Such a comment could only be
> > viewed as insulting by somebody who has, in fact, taken on all the
> > opinionsand prejudices of Gould at the expense of their own identity and
> > self-worth.  This could not apply to anyone on the list so there is nobody
> > to insult.
> > 
> > To get back to more Gouldian matters - as opposed to musical - what was
> > Gould's opinion on taking L-tryptophan as a sedative?
> > 
> > Leon Le Leu
> > Australia
> > 
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