Re: Hypothetical Question: And Desert Island Discs

[Kate Clunies-Ross <goldbergs@TALK21.COM>]

Original message:
>From: Elmer Elevator <bobmer@JAVANET.COM>
>To: F_MINOR@EMAIL.RUTGERS.EDU
>Subject: Re: Hypothetical Question: GG in Concert: Would You Go?
>

> Thanks for inventing the Time Machine! I'd go not to a concert, but to a
> recording session -- the sessions where he recorded the "white dove" Mozart
> album. Why waste a time machine ticket on the concert performances Gould
> clearly disliked, why trade my audience pleasure for his distress? I'd much
> prefer to see him in his chosen element playing the music that first made me
> his fan! (And if it wouldn't violate union rules, I'd volunteer to be his
> page turner or bring him tea!)

That would be wonderful but I hope you have great powers of persuasion!
Wasnt he very strict about who could be present at the sessions? Only people
essential to the recording process? Still, no doubt he couldnt resist the
tea, especially if you add  a few arrowroot cookies.....

> Is anyone a listener to BBC's Desert Island Recordings show, where the guest
> brings a list of the ten recordings she/he would take to a desert island?
> How often does GG pop up on that show?

I have sometimes listened to it in the past but not recently. ( I believe
Donald Sutherland was a guest not long ago and he chose GG's Goldbergs) My
guess would be that GG does not loom large in the list of desert island
favourites. Alas, he doesnt seem to be  the most popular musician in the UK;
or maybe I am just asking/talking to the wrong people!  Still,   BBC  Radio
3 did do a whole evening devoted toGould in 1999. They probably keep
statistics about Desert Island Discs; I am sure there must be someone on
F-Minor who would know. (Martin J Smith, are you there?)