RE: The joy of flames

["David B. Klein" <dklein@microtec.net>]

At 03:43 PM 10/5/98 -0400, Michael D. Benedetti wrote:
>David B. Klein wrote:
>>Gould was a charlatan with a personality problem. 
>
>Mr. Klein, it seems that you are the charlatan. No flamer worth his
>asbestos boots charges into a mailing list/newsgroup and then tosses
>tiny, one-line comments like so many daisies. The true troublemaker
>posts something long and absurd, full of straw men that the regulars
>can tear apart for hundreds of posts, totally ruining the group for
>the shy or levelminded members.
>
>Please, if this madness is to continue, post something substantial
>that will really piss me off. Enough games, sir.
>
>Yours,
>
>Michael Benedetti
>--
>It's only cultures that, by accident or good management, bypassed the
>Renaissance which see art for the menace it really is.
> --Glenn Gould
>
Awww, okay ... I do think Gould was being a smart aleck a lot of the time,
and I don't much like his Bach anymore. I did grow up on it, and in Canada,
to boot. I think it's instructive to compare his Italian Concerto to Igor
Kipnis's harpsichord version. Igor has the same blazing left hand, but never
loses sight of the music as 18th C. gesture. Gould gives me new perspectives
on a piece, to be sure, but they don't necessarily *belong* to the piece -
the best analogy I can come up with would be going to a concert while
intoxicated by a mind altering substance ;-)

David Klein