Re: Glenn Gould and Cage?

[Ingvar Loco Nordin <loco.nordin@mbox200.swipnet.se>]

>>From rh@esm.rochester.edu  Sun Oct 27 13:44:50 1996
>Date: Sun, 27 Oct 1996 07:44:44 -0500 (EST)
>From: Rob Haskins <rh@wozzeck.esm.rochester.edu>
>To: Ingvar Loco Nordin <loco.nordin@mbox200.swipnet.se>
>Cc: silence@bga.com
>Subject: Re: Glenn Gould and Cage?
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>Not being a member of the Glenn Gould mailing list,
>I can't cross-post to them (since I don't know
>their address)--maybe Loco can send it to
>them (and let me know how to join, since Glenn
>Gould is to me the greatest musician of the
>20th century).
>
>On Sun, 27 Oct 1996, Ingvar Loco Nordin wrote:
>
>[much deleted]
>>
>> >>From f_minor-approval@ogandalf.rutgers.edu  Sat Oct 26 18:22:34 1996
>>
>> >>Casper D Hulshof" <hulshof@edte.utwente.nl> wrote:
>> >
>> >>> Is there a recording of Glenn Gould plaing Cage's 4'33''?
>> >
>> >In article <brucet-ya023180002410962208020001@news.mindspring.com>,
>> >brucet@atl.mindspring.com (bruce thompson) wrote:
>> >
>> >>   Don't bother.  You can't even tell it's Gould playing it.
>> >
>> >   My recollection is that the recording features very loud humming
>> >along with the score on Gould's part ...
>
>I leave out the rest.  There _is_ no recording of Glenn Gould
>playing _4'33''_ that I know of, and I doubt that he would
>record it.  He was asked by Jack Behrens, dean of the music
>faculty at the University of Western Ontario, to come the
>day after Gould's 50th birthday to perform the piece. According
>to Gould biographer Otto Friedrich , "the world's most famous
>nonperformer was not amused."  -- see _Glenn Gould: A Life
>and Variations (New York: Random House, 1989), 320.
>
>On the other hand, it's clear that Gould's "contrapuntal
>radio" (pieces like _The Idea of North_) owes something to
>Cage's work, no matter what Gould's published opinions of
>Cage were.
>
>Rob Haskins
>Eastman School of Music
>

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