Regards
Valeria Massari
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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