Re: Weird GG Question

[Pooya Woodcock <pooya@math.umd.edu>]

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

mmmmmm 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?

hmmmmmm...
He might have played second movements of some of his fabulous Bach concerti or
some of the more emotional variations (1981 style) from the Goldberg
Variations. I think he'd like the nice symmetry of baroque music and the
counterpoint; it emphasizes the fact that relationships are
more-than-one-person, active, and communicative endeavors. Maybe he'd make up
his own composition.

In terms of gettin' in da mood fo some action, recall his (interpreted)
"Passion" for gigues of French Suites in 32 short films. At least we know
what gets glenn's motor started. In any case, here's a fact. You can't
exactly go clubbin' with gigues nowadays. Back in the 1650s, Queen Whomever
and company and constituents didn't breakdance to Paul Oakenfold or some sort
of evening-catalytic Trance / Techno (like most of their modernday
counterparts whom I've come to know at the university of maryland). No. The
people danced to gigues, menuets, etc. etc. Why do we (..Glenn) even
perform French/English/whatever suites if we don't dance to them? Did glenn
dance to them? I'd love to see that-- with or without a partner

-> Anne M. Marble

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