Re: Weird GG Question

[Joanna Ente <bananapeel25@juno.com>]

On Thu, 30 Aug 2001 21:40:50 -0400, Anne M. Marble <amarble@SFF.NET> 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?

I don't think he would have to try too hard.  I'm sure these women were
already in the mood when they arrived.


>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?

I would like to think he played the piano for them.  That would do it for
me.