Re: The joy of flames

["Charles McLimans" <found1@email.msn.com>]

Mr. Klein seems to have abundant experience with charlatans and
mind-altering substances.  Either he is a psychiatrist or is a scoundrel who
has done a lot of bad drugs while listening to Igor Kipnis.

-----Original Message-----
From: David B. Klein <dklein@microtec.net>
To: Michael D. Benedetti <benedett@bluestone.COM>; f_minor@email.rutgers.edu
<f_minor@email.rutgers.edu>
Date: October 5, 1998 3:56 PM
Subject: RE: The joy of flames


>At 03:43 PM 10/5/98 -0400, Michael D. Benedetti wrote:
>>David B. Klein wrote:
>>>Gould was a charlatan with a personality problem.
>>
>>Mr. Klein, it seems that you are the charlatan. No flamer worth his
>>asbestos boots charges into a mailing list/newsgroup and then tosses
>>tiny, one-line comments like so many daisies. The true troublemaker
>>posts something long and absurd, full of straw men that the regulars
>>can tear apart for hundreds of posts, totally ruining the group for
>>the shy or levelminded members.
>>
>>Please, if this madness is to continue, post something substantial
>>that will really piss me off. Enough games, sir.
>>
>>Yours,
>>
>>Michael Benedetti
>>--
>>It's only cultures that, by accident or good management, bypassed the
>>Renaissance which see art for the menace it really is.
>> --Glenn Gould
>>
>Awww, okay ... I do think Gould was being a smart aleck a lot of the time,
>and I don't much like his Bach anymore. I did grow up on it, and in Canada,
>to boot. I think it's instructive to compare his Italian Concerto to Igor
>Kipnis's harpsichord version. Igor has the same blazing left hand, but
never
>loses sight of the music as 18th C. gesture. Gould gives me new
perspectives
>on a piece, to be sure, but they don't necessarily *belong* to the piece -
>the best analogy I can come up with would be going to a concert while
>intoxicated by a mind altering substance ;-)
>
>David Klein
>
>