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Re: [F_minor] Glenn Gould movies
I'm likewise a newcomer to the list (though a lifelong fan of GG; my mother
owned an LP of his first Goldberg variations recording, and I used to listen
to it over and over again as a kid...). I'm currently a college student at
the University of Chicago, where I'm studying neuroscience.
A propos of Fred's mention of free-scores.com, another place one can
download free sheet music is the mutopia project:
http://www.mutopiaproject.org/ This is a user-run project to put public
domain music on the web (somewhat similar to the Gutenberg Project for
literature). They are particularly strong on Bach -- they have, among other
things, the Goldberg Variations, much of the WTC, French Suites 3 & 5,
English Suite 1, and the Inventions & Sinfonias. The scores are all written
and compiled with the free GNU LilyPond notation software (
http://lilypond.org/web/), so if you know how to use Lilypond and have spare
time, you can contribute. (I'm currently working on a score for the Bach's D
Minor piano concerto.)
BTW, I've made a youtube playlist of some of my favorite Gould videos
(mostly performances/recordings, but there are also some interviews and
miscellany mixed in). It's here:
http://youtube.com/view_play_list?p=260F62A078920EC3
Etha
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 3:28 PM, Houpt, Fred <fred.houpt@rbc.com> wrote:
> Welcome aboard Jose. It is unlikely that Sony will spend the money to
> re-issue the movies with subtitles. Glenn had a very personal way of
> speaking, sometimes a bit quickly. I grew up listening to him so I have an
> easier time. (Now that I recall, I promised myself that when the weather
> got better I would go visit his grave on a Sunday....tisk, tisk, I must get
> out and keep that promise). Jose, I live here in Toronto, Glenn's home
> town. Just down the street from my office is the CBC building with Glenn's
> permanent bronze statue outside the building.
>
> Mea Culpa group: I downloaded from a torrent site the film (not available
> for purchase at this time) "32 Short films of Glenn Gould" I saw it once on
> television and was mesmerized. Strangely it has not been for sale for ages.
> I have to find time to watch it.
>
> On another Glenn note, I found a web site that you can download free sheet
> music
> http://www.free-scores.com/search-uk.php?search=haydn%20piano&operateur=AND&CATEGORIE=&start4=30
>
> (I hope the URL shows up, if not people can private post me)...and I
> downloaded some wonderful Haydn piano sonatas. When I finally got some time
> at home to play them I recognized some from Glenn's terrific Haydn album.
> Boy, these are mature Haydn pieces and not easy I tell you. They are
> musically more interesting than some of Mozart's. Haydn is for me unfairly
> eclipsed by Mozart's music. In many cases he has written superior gems.
> Those piano pieces Glenn chose are outstanding and not easy to play. There
> are many joys in his piano music and I encourage all to try looking at them.
>
> A few words about Mozart's Piano Concertos 22 and 23. I had heard the 23
> in the wonderful film "The new world" and I fell in love with the slow
> movement. It has one of the most hauntingly beautiful and sad themes in the
> whole musical language. Both of these concertos are not musically demanding
> on the player. The final theme of 22 has one of the simplest but most
> humable themes. I encourage all to try to find the music and play along.
> These are some of the best Woolfy wrote.
>
> Finally: my wish list for the remainder of this year is to find the money
> or download the radio documentaries of Glenn. They are priceless in my
> view.
>
> Kind regards and again welcome aboard the Glenn Gould Love Club.
>
> Fred Houpt
> Toronto, Ontario
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: f_minor-bounces@email.rutgers.edu [mailto:
> f_minor-bounces@email.rutgers.edu] On Behalf Of José Soares
> Sent: Monday, June 09, 2008 6:09 PM
> To: f_minor@email.rutgers.edu
> Subject: [F_minor] Glenn Gould movies
>
> Dear F_minor members
>
> Since I have just subscribed F_minor and it's the first time I get in
> contact with you, let me take a few moments to present myself, at the light
> of this community.
> I am from Portugal and sometimes you will have to forgive my english, since
> it's not my mother tongue, not even my first second language, that is
> french.
> I have been listening classical music since I was little boy, and I have
> some musical background, but having had a very busy professional life, only
> when I retired two years ago, I could start spending enough time to really
> explore this world of music.....and then I discovered Glenn Gould and my
> life has changed forever.....and I have absolutely no words to describe how
> much I apreciate Glenn - his music, of course, but all the rest available to
> us.
> Outside the books available on Glenn, I believe I have (with very few
> exceptions) all the CD's and all the DVD's issued on him, and here I have a
> problem: the DVD's issued by Kultur (Extasis, Life and Times and The Russian
> Journey) don't have any kind of subtitles and for a foreigner like me
> sometimes it's hard to understand what Glenn says; I got in contact with
> Kultur but they can't do nothing since they get the tapes in finished
> format, they only make the DVD's and market them; on the other side, "The
> Glenn Gould Collection", series conceived by Kevin Wood based on Revcom
> series"Glenn Gould Plays" from programs of CBC and Societé Radio-Canadá, are
> not available in the market, at least on DVD format, what is a shame; I got
> them through the internet on a Hong Kong server with chinese (mandarin)
> subtitles and, although I have been there, it's a language that I don't
> understand; here I have the same problem with the DVD's - it's not easy to
> understand Glenn sometimes.
> Would it be possible that we, community of Glenn Gould lovers, put some
> pressure on Sony (or other) to issue a full edition of all Glenn Gould
> movies, with subtitles at least in english and french ( the two national
> languages of Canada); I believe that Glenn would apreciated very much that
> his ideas and opinions could reach a much larger number of persons
> interested in musical matters.
>
> All the best to you and F_minor
>
> José António Soares
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