Re: Weird GG Question

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

Anne Marble wrote"

> 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.

Thats a pity. He could have played Rachmaninov....Always good for a Brief
Encounter.

(with apologies to those who admire David Lean's classic film!)