GG: Prospect of Recording...Reader

[elisha-jt@juno.com (Elisha J Tseng)]

G'day, f minoreans,
	School started a little more than two weeks ago, and it has been
rather hectic.  College applications kind of showered on me and all of
the sudden there are so much to do and so many deadlines to meet. 
Irk.(:-P

	I still manage, however, to pick up the Glenn Gould Reader at my
local library and read it often whenever calculus class gets boring. 
There is an article called "The Grass is Always Greener in the Outtakes"
refers to how people-ranging from laymen to professional musicians-can
tell whether a selection of music had been spliced.

	Did GG ever spliced INTO a piece?  But I remember that he told
Rubinstein that he would play a piece (a mvt) through, and the outtakes
would only be the performances he deemed "unqualified."  However, I was
listening to he last recording of Strauss's Sonata and Five Piano pieces.
 Listen to track 6-II. Allegro vivace scherzando.  Between 28s to 30s,
there is a slight change in pitch on the f sharp-it is quite significant,
actually.  Is it possible that GG had spliced that area?  If so, that
seems like a really tight area to cut and paste into.

	I really admire many of his essays, but there are also a great
deal of articles he wrote that I cannot understand.  So I stayed out of
Part I: Music.  I do like his whimsical account of his meeting with
Stokowski and Prospect of Recording (my computer science teacher believe
that I am strange, being the only student who has ever heard of Marshall
McLuhan--of whom I learned from reading GG's essays.)  My favorite
article is actually the one about Toronto, and I wonder if any f
minoreans-who are Torontonians-agree to what GG said about the city.  I
want to visit there someday, and may be visit Uptergrove near Lake
Simcoe, where GG grew up.

	I hope everyone here has had a good start after vacation.  Can't
wait to hear more news regarding the Sept 1999 GG Conference in Toronto. 
I will be graduated  that year.

Cheers!  Elisha


Strong conviction is capable of destroying any prejudice.  The proof:
Glenn Gould.
--Nathan Perelman

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