Re: Gould's 1st contrapunctus

[Bradley Lehman <bpl@umich.edu>]

> oh please Sean, don't tease us like that.  What kind of research have you
> been doing, and who better to share it with than this list?  Any thoughts on
> reconciling the idea that the visual aspects of a performance can help the
> appreciation of the musical experience (to which I add, of course it can,
> though I see how the subject can quickly get complicated)  with Gould's
> attitude towards concerts, his renunciation of the stage.  Certainly
> performing music requires attention to the body, so why not, I imagine some
> reasoning must go, attend to this area while listening to music?

Second this.  More please, Sean!

> And just what the heck were you doing hanging out with Monsaingeon, who
> recently had a book he worked on called Sviatoslav Richter : Notebooks and
> Conversations published in the States.  Anyone seen it?  I know I was very
> impressed with Monsaingeon film on Richter "The Enigma."


I tried to look through that Richter book in a bookshop last week, but it
comes wrapped in plastic.  D'ohh!  What is it that they have to seal
it?  X-rated or something?


Bradley Lehman, Dayton VA
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