RE: [F_minor] Slaughterhouse 5

["Houpt, Fred" <fred.houpt@rbc.com>]

GG's opinions, even when tongue in cheek, are always interesting.  We have to remember that he had a very bright, creative, expansive mind.  His points, often written for liner notes for some of his recordings, are almost more valuable than the recording.  However, they do go a long way to addressing the questions that he knew his performance was going to raise.  Here was a man who could show utter delight at a single bar of piano music in the Beethoven Piano Concerto 2.  If memory serves me, his whole paragraph rested on his amazement of one single bar of the movement.  That's the way his delights ran.  
 
I can understand that, really.  I was playing through some Haydn piano sonatas lately and indeed, I would come to one single bar and I'd play it and then drop my hands from the keyboard and exclaim out loud, how incredibly beautiful.  God bless you papa Haydn.  That's the sheer joy of music.  It is sometimes but not always more of a jolt when you actually sit down to play the piece.  
 
Life would not be worth living without music.  End of story.
 
Cheers,
 
Fred
 
 

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From: Etha Williams [mailto:diftorhehsmusma@gmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, June 23, 2008 12:57 PM
To: Houpt, Fred
Cc: tkozlyk@shaw.ca; f_minor@email.rutgers.edu
Subject: Re: [F_minor] Slaughterhouse 5


One of the things I find curious about his self-interviews is the issue of how much of Glenn Gould goes into the "gg" parts (interviewer). It is tempting (for me at least) to read the GG parts as being representative of the "real" Glenn Gould, and the gg part as being merely a foil. This is likely partially true; at the same time, though, it can't be unintentional that he called the interviewer by his own name rather than by that of one of his fictional personalities or even simply as "interviewer." It seems to me that the opinions and concerns expressed by the gg, however distinct and even sometimes antithetical they may seem from the opinions and concerns of GG, must have also been part of Gould's own opinions and concerns.

Etha


On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 11:11 AM, Houpt, Fred <fred.houpt@rbc.com> wrote:


	That is a hilarious section.  Thanks.  GG had a self conscious sense of
	humor that not everyone appreciated. Although it highlighted his curious
	habit of being a control freak, it also allowed him to focus on the
	points he wanted to make crystal clear.  It runs along the same
	rationalizations he had for pulling out of live concerts.  He felt that
	he could not guarantee either a perfect rendition or else it was not
	possible to get the points across in a live manner, period.  Most of us
	enjoy the output of his contrived machinations.  With GG's hands on the
	control knobs, what we do have is quite good.
	
	Fred
	



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	[mailto:f_minor-bounces@email.rutgers.edu] On Behalf Of Etha Williams
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	I recently bought the Glenn Gould Reader and have been devouring it
	out-of-order with great enthusiasm. In the Glenn Gould Interviews Glenn
	Gould about Glenn Gould piece (pg 315 in the 1990 paperback ed), I have
	found at least part of the answer to my question:
	
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