Re: [F_minor] The re-recording....

["Robert Merkin" <bobmerk@earthlink.net>]

Hey! That wasn't easy! I had to find the old quote in the archives of some screwy list called F_Minor, at

https://email.rutgers.edu/pipermail/f_minor/2005-April/003611.html

which has my old article about finding the Welte LPs at a tag sale, and the amazing story of the Welte Player Piano. The inventor was Edwin Welte, and the beautiful Book-of-the-Month-Club LPs were recorded from rescued Welte rolls ...

The Welte Vorsetzer poised at the keyboard of Steinway Concert Grand No.
61,  Los Angeles, winter 1962-63. Notice the absence of a human.

Here's the GG quote. He describes listening to the Welte rolls as

"... both enormously rewarding and deeply disturbing ... because many of
these performances are hard to reconcile with the architectural notions
which our own generation prize most highly ... one is made deeply aware of
the transitory nature of interpretative ideals, and one is even led to ask
fundamental questions about the nature of stylistic concept as viewed by
the performer."


> [Original Message]
> From: MJ Watts <mj.accounts@gmail.com>
> To: <F_MINOR@email.rutgers.edu>
> Date: 9/20/2006 9:46:46 PM
> Subject: Re: [F_minor] The re-recording....
>
> Very surreal part of the story-- as near as I can tell, they're broadcasting
> the "live" re-performance before an audience on the CBC 94.1.  Finally a
> live concert Gould could have enjoyed!  I wonder if they're recording the
> live performance of the re-recording.
>
> Cool thing is that Sony will release the CD of the Ghostly G'bergs so we'll
> all get a chance to hear the result.  Now that I have a decent set of
> headphones I'll really miss the humming-- if you can call it that.  It's
> more like a soulful kind of mooing, isn't it?
>
> I'm thrilled about this personally because of all the possibilities and plus
> it's just a cool idea which could only be made cooler if it came in Apple's
> Garageband format so I could "twiddle the knobs" (ahem.)
>
> But I have to say it before anyone else does-- how releases can Sony make of
> GG's G'bergs?  (There's a punchline there somewhere.)
>
> -MJ
>
> BTW,  Bob, is GG's quotation re-printed anywhere?
>
> On 9/20/06, Robert Merkin <bobmerk@earthlink.net> wrote:
> >
> > I<snip>
>
> The book that came with them contains a quote from the young (but already
> > famous) Glenn Gould, who marvelled at the difference between these
> > interpretations, and the interpretations taught as historically authentic in
> > modern conservatories. Some Weldt interpretations of 18th century classics
> > contain traditional echoes of interpretations that date to Mozart's time --
> > in other words, there are hints in the Weldt performances of the actual way
> > pianists of Mozart's day interpreted the works.
> > </snip>
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