RE: GG: Newspaper and magazine articles

["Williamson, Mark" <MWilliamson@alston.com>]

I just read this National Post article.  What claptrap.

Mark

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Mary Jo Watts [SMTP:mwatts@rci.rutgers.edu]
> Sent:	Tuesday, October 05, 1999 1:05 PM
> To:	Claude B. Zachary; f_minor@email.rutgers.edu
> Subject:	Re: GG: Newspaper and magazine articles
> 
> 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

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