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On 25 April
2000 (bless AltaVista!), Madiva settled the GG/Mozart thang once and for all,
with the most authoritative answer:
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Glenn Gould was not a liar [when he said he did not like Mozart]!
He don't like the
hedonistic aspect of Mozart.
Nevertheless his
Mozart is wonderful.
Regards Valeria Massari ================= Well, I love this thread because I love Mozart and, most of all, I love GG's performances of Mozart. Did Glenn Gould dislike Mozart? I'll say it again: Listen to the Hum when he plays Mozart. He's in rapture, transport, ecstacy! And now I'll add something about "the hedonism." I've seen the terrible damage that hedonism can do to people. And I've seen the terrible damage that puritanism and moralistic rigid self-righteousness can do to people, and to entire communities. Here in America, I'm seeing this terrible damage right now, on a scale that matches the worst era of Apartheid. I don't want to get too political here on a classical music List, but if anyone has any questions about what I'm talking about, query me off-List. Or on-List. You all know me, I'm a big mouth, I don't care. So, looking back, if I have to choose: I choose hedonism! Hoorah for hedonism! Hooray for libertinism! Hoorah for whoopie! It's a lot more fun, a lot more pleasant, the parties are much better, there's a lot more music, and hedonism does a lot less human damage. Any society can get through a decade of hedonism a lot more smoothly and with a lot less regret than it can get through a decade of Taliban-style puritanism. Also, hedonistic times leave much more enduring literature. Mozart made the right lifestyle choice! Bob
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