[CAUT] Glenn Gould/Bach stuff

Michelle Stranges stranges@Oswego.EDU
Fri, 24 Feb 2006 14:59:40 -0500


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Glenn GOULD, Loren!!!

:D

Ya silly!
On Feb 24, 2006, at 2:56 PM, Loren Miller wrote:

>      Thanks for getting back to me so quick!  I wasn't sure where  
> my email to you went.  I'm sorry, I didn't mention any regulation  
> problems I had heard, it's just ibeen so long.  I think it's real  
> cool your into Glenn Miller.  I like Glenn Miller too, especially  
> his last name!  See you later!  Loren
>
> On 2/24/06, Michelle Stranges <stranges@oswego.edu> wrote:
> Aww Andy!!
>
> Thanx for your post!
>
> I'm going to listen to this some more but I don't know if I can ever
> get past the double striking I'm hearing all over the place.
> You didn't mention this regulation problem in your post..
>
> You DID hear that too didn't you??
>
> :o
>
> Thanx again for your letter!
>
> :)
> michelle
> On Feb 24, 2006, at 2:45 PM, Andy Rudoff wrote:
>
> > >I *refuse* to believe someone didn't hear this.
> > >
> > >Especially Glenn.
> >
> > Michelle,
> >
> > I am a huge Glenn Gould fan and own just about everything he ever
> > recorded.
> > But many of his recordings are controversial, some because he made
> > unusual
> > choices about tempo or style, some because people don't like his
> > humming.
> >
> > But the Two and Three Part Inventions is one of the most  
> controversial
> > and die hard fans like me know the story.  His piano, a Steinway  
> known
> > as "CD 318" had been dropped, ruined.  His piano technician told him
> > it was totaled.  Glenn himself fiddled with it and probably didn't
> > help the situation.  But he insisted on recording the Inventions  
> using
> > that piano.  When Columbia released the recording, they included a
> > sort of apologetic note about the piano noises.
> >
> > Thankfully Gould was eventually convinced to give up on that piano.
> > For example, his second (digital) of the Goldberg Variations was
> > on a Yamaha CFIII.
> >
> > Like many, you'll probably end up either loving Gould's style or
> > hating it.  I don't even hear the humming and other noises anymore,
> > but then I am a long-time Gould convert.
> >
> > -andy
> >
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