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Dear all Glenn’s
friends, I just wanted to wish to each
one of you a Happy New Year, a happy musical year with Glenn still living on
CDs, DVDs and tapes for our acoustic pleasure. I think there is also a part of
his spirituality that he left us in his conversations, his gestures and of
course in his wonderful recordings. Listening to him while
reading a score or watching his pictures sometimes, hearing his humming he
couldn’t help and that I love, it is almost if I can feel him next to me,
as if he was in the very room I am in, in those moments. It is a whole: the man
and the music and the way of thinking, of feeling life at the tip of his
fingers. I remember one day when it
suddenly occurred to me that if Glenn had been able to play from the inside of
his piano, he would have done it. All the same, if he had been able to split,
or to have four hands, in a way, he would have done it also: two hands for the
pianist and two hands for the conducting and the ecstasy brought by MUSIC. On my side, he also lives on
pictures, and I still have a great pleasure in trying to “catch”
his incredible attitudes to put them down under my pencil. While drawing him, I
always listen to him, especially the Partitas and the Goldberg Variations. Listening
to him and once again to his humming, drawing him as best, as realistically as
I can, I feel the out-of-time of the studio, of the man, of the music. It is
not a feeling like a mad guy could have. It is a feeling of being alone and out
of time, in a way. Not alone on the whole, however, for it is like I could have
Glenn himself next to me. I’m sure all the artists who take part of this
list will understand… Happy New Year again, then! “Glenngouldly”, Vincent Thivet ************************************************** Signoff instructions, and user preference interface F_minor Website ************************************************** |