Re: [BACH-LIST] gould

["David B. Klein" <dklein@microtec.net>]

At 04:41 PM 4/20/98 -0500, John P. Hill wrote:
Gould went on record as saying that "advocacy is a
>powerful tool".  Unfortunately, it appears that he used the reverse
>process on the set of Mozart sonatas (ie: "these are bad compositions and
>here's why I think so...").
>

Perhaps this makes Gould a kind of musical deconstructionist, or
postmodernist - I forget the difference between those schools. I suppose
that might give him a certain cachet with the pseudointellectuals of the
Parisian persuasion.

dbk