Weird GG Question

["Anne M. Marble" <amarble@sff.net>]

Don't even look at this if you don't like those "trivial" questions... ;->

I don't know why this hit me, but now that I thought of it, I cant' stop
wondering. What type of music do you think Glenn Gould played when he had a
female visitor over, and he was trying to get her in the right (ahem) mood?

Do you think he played his Brahms Intermezzi? (He did say he thought they
were "sexy," but I'm not sure he meant it in _that_ sense.) Wagner? Petula
Clark? Streisand? He didn't like Romantic music. (While I often like
Romantic music, it isn't always romantic in the general sense as it's often
too stormy. I can see why someone like GG might be appalled at the idea of
a stormy romance!) So what was the kind of music that he would think was
lush and passionate?

Yes, I know this is silly and trivial. But is this really preferable to the
biographies, which treat Glenn Gould as if he really were the Last Puritan,
as if he never so much as went on a date? Sometimes the biographies, by
going into meticulous details and unproveable theories, forget to humanize
Glenn Gould. That, to me, is a loss.


Anne M. Marble