GG: competitions

["Gerald J. Cho" <venom@thymaster.interaccess.com>]

If there had to be a GG piano competition, it should have followed the
format of Irving S. Gilmore Piano competition.  They have a special panel
that secretly select the pianists and attend their recitals.  The panel
then decides the winner and notify the artist.   Only then does the
winning artist become aware that he/she was in the competition.  I don't
believe they release the names of other candidates.  So no one loses.

Gerald    

On Thu, 12 Sep 1996, Ron Davis wrote:

> A response to the messages from Penelope Peters, Jeremy Clayton Smith, and
> Mary Jo Watts:
> 
> To Penelope Peters:
> 
> >Excuse my naivite, but what is your objection to a GG piano competition?
> ><(good
> >grief! a GG piano competition- I still haven't recovered from that one), >
> >If my memory serves, GG took part in at least a couple of Bach competitions, as
> >a teenager.  Is not the idea of a GG competition merely a vehicle to keep alive
> >Gould's name and ideals?
> 
> My objection was to a piano competition in the name of GG, not to
> competitions simpliciter. Here was a man favourable to the extinction of the
> concert hall, and against the sports-in-music-ness of concertization. He may
> have competed as a youth, but he certainly had nothing to do with any
> competition in his adult life. So much about GG and his art embodied ideals
> and principles inimical to competitions. Let there be competitions (the
> debate about whose merits belong on another list) by all means. There are so
> many already; did the world really need another one?
> 
> If one wants to keep alive GG's name and ideals, how about something
> innovative: a recording competition? a radio documentary competition? a
> competition for the best music performance tv hour? This would be in keeping
> with his unique genius, and promote artists less likely to get help than
> those on the crowded competition circuit. 
> 
> Goodness knows, the winner, Angela Hewitt (sp?) is a superb and deserving
> musician. But a GG Piano Competition? Might as well have a Glenn Gould Big
> Band Jazz Competition, or a Glenn Gould Chopin Etudes Competition?
>