Re: GG: Humming - Pirated CD proposal

[Russell Lichter <lichter@earthlink.net>]

Absolutely specious logic. A pianist is not a playing machine. What he conveys is
a totality of his experience, skill and personality. What's next, touching up
Vermeer's brush work? Either listen on the pianist's terms, or choose another
pianist.



jv wrote:

>         [snip].
>
>         By the way, to those who take the position that Gould's music would
> suffer if the humming were removed - what's wrong with his piano
> playing, that it needs to be augmented by his vocals?  Isn't his playing
> good enough that if you were to hear it without the humming, you would
> be satisfied that it was an interpretation of genius?  If you say the
> music without the humming would be incomplete, then you are saying that
> his piano playing alone was incomplete.
>
> Bardolph

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