Re: GG and YM on the CBC

["Anne M. Marble" <amarble@sff.net>]

Anne Smith said:

>They did a show together on May 18 1966 called "Duo". ...

>There is a transcription in "The Art of Glenn Gould" edited
>by John Roberts.  He said that the comments between the
>music were unscripted.  This doesn't sound like something
>Glenn Gould  would do.

I did get the impression that the earlier shows were
somewhat "less scripted." (At least by GG's standards.
Maybe it was because of incidents like this that GG started
becoming more "scripted."

>Yehudi Menuhin admitted that he didn't care for
>Schoenberg's music, but said  "Well, Glenn, I was very
>anxious to take you up on the invitation to play it,
>because I admire you and know that you know more about
>Schoenberg and have a genuine understanding of Schoenberg,
>perhaps more than anyone else, and I am always interested
>in learning about something through the eyes of someone who
>understands it and loves it, because I have always had the
>motto in my life that anyone who likes something ..." (This
>sentence never does end.  GG cut in on him before he could
>finish.)

Thank you. This is the clip I saw. I thought I had seen
something more recent, but that wasn't the case.

>This is "The Music of Man" that Daniel wrote about.  GG is
>not prominent in the series.  It has been a long time
>since I saw this , but I am sure that something rude was
>said by one or both of them. I had the uncomfortable
>feeling during the show that something bad was going to
>happen.  I was very surprised to learn years later that GG
>and YM admired each other.

I read the transcript Daniel mentioned. (See URL below.)
Even on paper (that is, on monitor), the discussion
does seem tense. I can imagine the atmosphere must have
been quite "taut". Watching "discussions" between people
who feel that strongly can make the audience feel prickly
and goosebumpy all over. (Darn, these things are hard to
describe!)

> A book was made out of the series.  It is in my local
>library,  probably in yours. This series was geared
>towards the layman.

I think I've seen it around. Should be interesting. Even if
YM didn't enjoy Schoenberg. <g> (I have a recent recording
of "Verklärte Nacht" myself, and I quite enjoyed it. I was
shocked -- I thought Schoenberg was supposed to be
inaccessible to laypeople like myself. Guess that's what
comes from hangin' around here...)

And Daniel Vaiser said:
>PS -- I believe there is a transcript of this interview
>somewhere in Mary Jo Watts' Glenn Gould web site.

Thank you, Daniel! (And thank you, Mary Jo!)
I found it. Here is the link to the article:
http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~mwatts/glenn/ym.html