Re: GG: cab conversation (GG on/off the Record)

[John Hill <jphill@home.com>]

Anne M. Marble wrote:
> 
> I thought GG looked a little car-sick... Maybe it was just jet lag, or
> train lag. Of course, it could be any number of things, from mild
> annoyance that he had to let somebody else drive to a panic disorder.

Could be;  he certainly seems a bit uneasy.  Possibly some nerves before
starting work on the Italian Concerto?  Afraid of drafts in the cab?  Not
being comfortable in NYC?  Nervous about somebody else driving?
No sleep the night before?  There are many possibilities.

On another note, Karl loaned me his copy of Glenn Gould's Toronto.
Quite entertaining, if a bit slow in spots.  One of my favorite segments
is at the Mariposa Folk Festival, where the Downchild Blues Band is
performing.  GG refers to them as *a cross between an Ozark wedding
jug band and Monteverdi*!         (8{0} 

One discovers that GG has never
*been* to most of the sites on the tour and his take on some of them is
very funny!  Best musical segment has him "lip-syncing" one of the
Art of Fugue items on a church organ (not at Kingsway, since it had burned
down long before 1978).  A very odd little documentary, but well worth
the hour of time spent, just to see GG at his well-scripted best.  GG must
have been the all-time master of the dependent clause;  nobody would
*ever* be able to speak spontaneously with that kind of convoluted
(in the best sense of the word) construction!

jh