Re: [F_minor] RE: Ravel

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

Eeeek! I never knew! NOW you tell me!

Well ... an amazing GG talent I never suspected -- the ability to perfectly
mimic lousy reviewers and critics.

Bob


> [Original Message]
> From: Brad Lehman <bpl@umich.edu>
> To: <bobmerk@earthlink.net>
> Cc: <f_minor@email.rutgers.edu>
> Date: 7/2/2008 5:13:45 PM
> Subject: Re: [F_minor] RE: Ravel
>
> GG wrote those himself.
>
>
> Robert Merkin wrote:
> > The odd liner notes of Gould's performance of Liszt's piano
transcription
> > of Beethoven's 5th Symphony reprints a review from a socialist workers'
> > publication which excoriates Gould for the selfish, heartless, greedy
> > capitalist's act of putting 50 professional musicians out of work. The
> > reviewer never even gets around to expressing an opinion about Gould's
> > peformance.
> > 
> > Another review was reprinted from a psychiatric journal from the
Dakotas.
> > The psychiatrist-reviewer focused on what he perceived as a clear
clinical
> > symptom of megalomania.
> > 
> > GG clearly cherished these reviews and delighted in rescuing them from
> > obscurity.
> > 
> > Bob
> > 


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