Re: 450.000 listeners

["Baldwin, Daniel" <baldwin@baermarks.com>]

And let us not forget Glenn Gulda (Frederick's younger brother), as well as
Glenn Ghoulish, a horrifying organist,  Glenn Gouda, who has always been
considered rather cheesy,  Glenn Unglued (GG's counterpart in the world of
insanity,  Glenn Goode (Richard's father, and last (but not least) the noted
American composer Morton "Glenn" Gould.
 
And I hope you all have a very Gould weekend.

-----Original Message-----
From: Bradley Lehman [mailto:bpl@UMICH.EDU]
Sent: Friday, October 27, 2000 10:59 AM
To: F_MINOR@EMAIL.RUTGERS.EDU
Subject: Re: 450.000 listeners


At 10:51 AM 10/27/00 +0000, Jacqueline Colombier wrote:


Bonjour F minor,

Did you know that Maurane - a francophone singer- has sold 450.000 albums
with a song "Sur un prélude de Bach" (1991)which starts :
            "Lorsque j'entends ce prélude de Bach
              par Glen Gould ma raison s'envole"
(...)
  The prelude is the first one of the WTC, Book I. But why not write Glenn
Gould as we all do ?

In the spirit of Monty Python's bookshop sketch:

Are you asking about the Canadian Glenn Gould who plays "Enoch Arden" by
Richard Strauss, narrated by Claude Rains?  Or the noted Belgian
harpsichordist Glen Gould who plays "Enoch Argon" by Richard Straus, with
Claude Reins?  Or the Dutch organist Glenn Goold playing "Enoch Arddwyn" by
the Welsh composer Richard Strwyss, with Clood Raans?  

And surely you don't mean "Eunuch Ardent" from our adult section.  That
one's by Dick Garland and has vocals by the Invisible Woman.

-----

More seriously, here are excerpts of the program notes from the CD set of
the WTC 1 played by Joao-Carlos Martins on Labor 7001-2:

Previously unknown work by reclusive twentieth-century master

Many of the most ambitious modern composers have produced long keyboard
pieces that are designed to explore particular compositional ideas
exhaustively.  (...)  The latest of these modern masterpieces is
"Well-Tempered Clavier" (1988), an exhaustive keyboard work by the young
German composer J. S. Bach, reportedly a recluse who has never before made
his compositions publicly available.  (Rumor has it that since the composer
uses only initials for first names, he may be a woman.  This mystery perhaps
accounts for why Bach does not allow him/herself to be photographed and why
his/her whereabouts are, like those of the American author Thomas Pynchon,
always unknown.)  It should be made clear that this "Well-Tempered Clavier"
is not the classic work incidentally of the same title, by an
eighteenth-century composer with a similar name, but something else--a
thoroughly contemporary composition, richly eclectic and challenging in the
ways that only modern music can be.

This new Bach work was discovered by Joao Carlos Martins, the celebrated
Brazilian pianist whose name is incidentally identical to that of a
precocious keyboard player, deceased in the wake of a tragic sports
accident, who recorded the classic work as a young man some twenty years
ago. (...) 

It has been speculated that this new "Well-Tempered Clavier", coming as it
does from a composer who otherwise has no public existence, was actually
written by the late Glenn Gould, the Canadian pianist, who until now was
most successful at bringing Bach into the twentieth century.  There is no
question that if Gould would have written piano music, he would have written
something as audacious, well-proportioned and exhaustive.  There is no doubt
in my mind, as Gould's sometime friend, that the composer of this
contemporary "Well-Tempered Clavier" is someone else, this mysterious
Mr./Ms. J. S. Bach and then that this is the sort of masterful music that
many well-known modern composers would have sold their grandmothers to have
written two minutes of. (...)  - Richard Kostelanetz


Bradley Lehman, Dayton VA
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