Re: GG: Newspaper and magazine articles

[Mary Jo Watts <mwatts@rci.rutgers.edu>]

OOH-- The Post article is by Tamara Bernstein, is it?  She would know a
little bit about boring.  Her presentation at the gathering was absolute
torture IMNSHO. On and on and on. (Certainly the worst of the gathering
and that was a disappointment to me because there are so few female
critics out there...also I heard she was saucy and I was prepared for
her to be interesting.)  Her knowledge of GG as a person certainly was
not parallel with what people who knew him told me and she certainly
didn't 'come within a thousand miles' of him. She never engaged with his
musicianship long enough to be interesting on that subject...

That's not to say she's entirely wrongheaded in her criticism.  She's
right about Payzant.  There was a lot of St. Glenn about the place
(notably from Bruno Monsaingeon who was on a mission to get his Chemins
de la musique released in Canada and the US). I'd be interested to know
more about the effect the Gould programming had on CBC coffers-- but she
doesn't go there.  

-MJ



Claude B. Zachary wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 4 Oct 1999, Walter Alvey wrote:
> > I have the two articles only in hard copy.  Toronto Life magazine has a web
> > site (http://www.tor-lifeline.com/) but I don't think it contains the text of
> > the article (only the introduction which I quoted).  The National Post may have
> > a web site that has the article (I didn't check).
> 
> The National Post article can be found at:
> http://www.nationalpost.com/artslife.asp?s2=arts&f=990928/89359.html
> 
> Any reactions?
> 
> Claude