Second Notice: Idea of North / Make Reservations Now

[Elmer Elevator <bobmer@javanet.com>]

SECOND NOTICE

Call your travel agent NOW to take the Winnipeg-Churchill train. First week in
November is when the polar bears wander through Churchill on Hudson Bay. I
went. And came back alive. And deliriously happy!

Elmer

Mary Jo Watts wrote:

> Anne Marble said:
>
> > It's obvious Ostwald didn't take GG's non-piano work
> > seriously, and that's a dang shame. At the Gathering,
> > somebody (maybe our own Mary Jo Watts?) said something
> > about how a biographer who didn't appreciate the
> > Solitude Trilogy wasn't an appropriate biographer for
> > GG. (If Mary Jo wasn't the one who said that, she _did_
> > applaud the comment. <g>)
>
> Indeed I did, Anne. I don't think many folks who've written about Gould
> have taken the ST seriously. Didn't GG say somewhere that the IoN was the
> closest thing to an autobio he'd ever write? I had such a good time
> talking with Lorne Tulk about the ST. During the Gathering, I had made an
> attempt to point out what I found to be the obvious countrapuntal
> structure of the "trio sonata" at the beginning of the IoN-- how GG made
> literal the "musical" structure of the piece-- how it reflected his sense
> of music as language, and maybe vice versa.  Lorne said to me that people
> just don't get that aspect-- ex. in homage to GG people have created radio
> pieces that just lay sound over sound without regard for "musical"
> structure.  I was really surprised to hear it-- I thought the structure of
> what GG was doing was obvious but maybe I've listened to the pieces WAY to
> many times! <g>  Edward Said's article in Raritan where he discusses GG's
> attempt to make music a venue for intellectual, linguistic thought would
> only have been enhanced if Said had paid attention to the ST.  The ST is
> entrancing, maddening, apolitical (or not political enough for my taste),
> beautiful, grating, smart, witty, experimental (if only because it takes
> one way of thinking--the musical, the performative and translates that
> thought to words, recordings)-- it reflects all one really needs to know
> about GG.  Except who is that cert. beautiful girl...IOW who was the
> intended listener, the new audience, the ideal listener...who was GG
> trying to reach with so many voices?
>
> <relurk>
> -Mary Jo Watts