[f_minor] honouring GG

Kpapademas at aol.com Kpapademas at aol.com
Thu May 26 23:39:27 EDT 2011


Hi Elaine - one of my favorite albums (and aren't they all favorites) by GG 
 is the Sibelius album. And I love the Inventions too (each note like a 
clear  bell!).
I know you live in Toronto: check out 
_http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L40LlSGMC8A_ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L40LlSGMC8A)    (Wm Byrd's 
Sellinger's round).
I was planning to drive to Toronto and visit GG's grave on Memorial  Day 
(as I did two years ago) - but tied up with work. Glad you were able to make  
it.
I sent some ideas to John Miller, but haven't heard a response.  Is  there 
a special website?
Your chair sounds beautiful. 
K
 
 
In a message dated 5/26/2011 9:16:02 P.M. Central Daylight Time,  
elaine19c at yahoo.ca writes:

Hi Fred, Maryellen, and others,  


Have you been sending your ideas about honouring GG to Stratford?  It was 
such a nice invitation. I am busy designing a GG chair of wrought  iron, with 
notes and scales and flowers, and wild animals entwined...I  sent in my 
idea but have to actually make a proper representation of  it. 


The music is endlessly appealing, isn't it? The Bach is  untouchable! I 
drive myself nutty with it. Right now I'm listening to  the Inventions and 
Sinfonias. Does anybody else get chills listening to  Glenn's "Kyllikki" 
(Sibelius)? But I have to say his version of Gibbons'  "Lord of Salisbury" takes me 
the closest to heaven.


Last weekend I managed a trip to the gravesite again. There are  wild 
violets there now. Someone had picked a few and put them there with  some 
dandylions, it was quite touching.


Regards, Elaine




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1. Not Gould but... (maryellen  jensen)
2. Re: Not Gould but... (Houpt,  Fred)


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For Fred Houpt and  anyone else who is a little surprised: perhaps I should 
have mentioned  that these lectures are strictly audio. There is nothing 
wrong with  your computer nor with the link.

The Wigmore Hall site offers  even more: Haydn. The lecture on piano Sonata 
No. 62  is my  favourite but all three are worth the airtime:

_http://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/interact/wigmore-hall-podcasts/andr?s-schiff
-explores-haydn_ 
(http://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/interact/wigmore-hall-podcasts/andr?s-schiff-explores-haydn) 


Mary




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Morning all.  I listened  to one of the Beethoven lectures over the 
weekend, at home.  It  was delicious and wonderful.  

Last night I  dusted off my DVD copy of "Hereafter", which I had not seen 
in a few  years.  Of course I was overwhelmed with great emotion and found  
myself in tears at the incredible beauty of the music making, laughing  at 
his sense of humor and in awe of his intellect, which I think is  still not 
properly appreciated by his fellow artists.  I say this  because the die-hards 
have not fallen out of love or respect.  He  deserves more recognition from 
other artists, giving Gould the credit  due, acknowledging that his 
artistic approach, filled with extremes as  they were, all were entirely 
underwritten by a deeply passionate  desire to know the inner realms of the musical 
thoughts.  I do  not know that GG was the first philosophical musical prodigy, 
but for  me he is the most important.

Another impression I get from the  documentary is that GG often achieved 
levels of altered states of  consciousness and from these highly charged and 
ecstatic states he was  able to see the music as if for the first time; even 
more, his  insights totally informed the manner in which he approached  
interpretation.  The section where he explains the "why" of his  infamous Mozart 
sonata approach I found myself finally understanding a  bit more, why his 
interpretation was acceptable within the strict  agenda that his approach had 
set for itself.  His objective was  to turn the overly familiar sonata 
inside out and deeply examine the  architecture of the theme as it evolves 
through exposition.  He  is not the only one to search for these types of 
insights and he is  often remembered as having too much recourse to gross 
exaggeration in  order to make his points. However, once one has finally grasped some 
 of the insights that his performances afford us, we are better off and  
our artistic apprec!
iation is deeper.  What can possibly be  found in such a journey?  That is 
one reason I can never be away  from listening to GG.  There is so much 
there to contemplate and  be enlightened by.

cheers,

Fred  Houpt


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For Fred Houpt and anyone  else who is a little surprised: perhaps I should 
have mentioned that  these lectures are strictly audio. There is nothing 
wrong with your  computer nor with the link.

The Wigmore Hall site offers even  more: Haydn. The lecture on piano Sonata 
No. 62  is my favourite  but all three are worth the airtime:

_http://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/interact/wigmore-hall-podcasts/andr?s-schiff
-explores-haydn_ 
(http://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/interact/wigmore-hall-podcasts/andr?s-schiff-explores-haydn)   
<_http://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/interact/wigmore-hall-podcasts/andr%C3%A1s-schiff-explores-haydn_ 
(http://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/interact/wigmore-hall-podcasts/andrás-schiff-explores-haydn) 
>  


Mary




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