[f_minor] Quiet in Radionald

Tue Sep 25 13:26:14 MDT 2012

Here's a podcast from WQXR, in NY.

http://www.wqxr.org/#!/articles/conducting-business/2012/sep/24/time-rethink-cult-glenn-gould/

Colin Eatock

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From: Peter Glenister <Peter.Glenister at msvu.ca>
To: Discussion of the Canadian pianist Glenn Gould. <f_minor at glenngould.org>
Sent: Tue, Sep 25, 2012 1:45 pm
Subject: Re: [f_minor] Quiet in Radionald

Pat,

use this URL:
http://www.cbc.ca/thesundayedition/

and choose episodes - the Gould special is the second in the list; part 2 is next Sunday (30 September).

If you had been here in Toronto over the past four days, you would know that Glenn Gould's impact is not in decline.

Peter

From: f_minor [f_minor-bounces at glenngould.org] on behalf of Pat [pzumst at bluewin.ch]
Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2012 2:24 PM
To: Discussion of the Canadian pianist Glenn Gould.
Subject: [f_minor] Quiet in Radionald

Dear all

this is a reply to Mary who gave me some heads up, but not just

I tried to find some celebratory broadcasts on stations I know and like around the world. Result: Err, not much.

Americans and Canadians are advised to check their affiliates for NPR, PBS and the CBC (whose website is utterly confusing). I do know the CBC is doing something but I can't find it anymore.

Also nothing on BBC 3 Radio or ABC Oz which usually has good stuff on. 

I must also disappoint readers in central Europe. arte, 3sat etc. have chosen to ignore GG's 80th for now. Our local public broadcaster here in CH will do a few features, but for these one must speak german, french or italian and at least one will be on for remembering his death ! Bugger ! 

So either I missed summet or it is rather quiet on the airwaves when it comes to the birthday of one of the most talked about pianists of our time.  

That raises a few questions. GG still sells but is he still important or relevant in a musical environment where even clowns like Lang Lang can become a mass media phenomenon ? Is his stuff past the sell-by date in terms of musical importance ? His writings out of date ? Are the 60s and 70s that far away that it seems on longer relevant to what he said about the art of recording back then ? Is GG History just like shellac recordings and black and white TV ? An antique, a fossil, a legend from ages past, now reduced to a Cult ? And what remains is the Hagiography (Mary, I got it this time) of the young Genius (ahem) playing the Goldbergs in the mind of radio schedule programmers and the classical music public ? Or are those media people just a bunch of ignorant louts who should know better ? or has someone just failed to promote his legacy correctly ?
So is GG still relevant for classical music or aspiring producers or is is just the level of aqqired taste that has gone down ? No nostalgia or hagiography, perhaps this question is unanswerable, but it would be nice to get closer to the truth I reckon….

Pat

Am 25.09.2012 um 16:41 schrieb Anita Monroe:

Stephanie,  Nothing too serious.  He did all kinds of routines, trying out different accents.  That was a sign of the times.  Many actors and comedians
in the 60's did this.  It was a fad that went away.  I think that he would have given it up too.

Anita

On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 6:25 AM, Stephanie Wright <slynnwright83 at gmail.com> wrote:

Anita, What do you mean by, "he would have dropped the silly routines and found his voice?"
Stephanie

Please visit my piano studio site: http://stephaniewright.musicteachershelper.com/

On Sep 25, 2012 1:24 AM, "Anita Monroe" <rubatoatm at gmail.com> wrote:

Mary,  Lang Lang pounding away on CD 318?  Surely not.  Strangely enough LL started his American career here in Clemson. 
He was sponsored by Clemson's program director.  She is wild about him and he is beloved in this community.  

I like to imagine what GG would have been like at age 80.  He would probably dropped the silly routines, found his own voice
and contined to make beautiful recordings, maybe studying even more lost antique scores just like that wonderful Italian singer whose
name escapes me at the moment.  Noone could have stopped him.  (-:

Best, Anita

On Tuesday, September 25, 2012, maryellen jensen wrote:

Pat, 

 Thanks for the heads up mate. It's Gould's big 80th today and I have nothing to offer from this part of the world.
I've searched Mezzo, Arte (tv) and Radio France Musique and Radio Suisse Romande: absolutely nothing programmed
concerning Gould. There is one small "news bite" on Radio France Musique announcing Lang Lang's forthcoming 'concert'
on (I assume) GG's fabled CD 318:

Lang Lang sur le piano de Glenn Gould

Lundi 24 Septembre 2012 10:50    dépêches notes 
par Rodolphe Bruneau-Boulmier
Le pianiste chinois, Lang Lang, a été invité a jouer sur le piano de Glenn Gould pour fêter, demain, les 80 ans du pianiste à Toronto. Précisons que Jean-François Zigel est également invité à toucher la chose!

 If anyone has news of special radio programming from anywhere please do pass it along to the rest of us here, it is appreciated.

Mary Jensen

From: pzumst at bluewin.ch
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 19:27:51 +0200
To: f_minor at glenngould.org
Subject: [f_minor] GG article in Der Spiegel and DLF Radio broadcasts

Dear all

This might be of concern for those of you who can speak or understand german. 

The german weekly newsmagazine Der Spiegel published an article regarding GG's 80th this week here:
http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/musik/klavierlegende-glenn-gould-neuveroeffentlichungen-zum-80-geburtstag-a-856668.html

Usually this magazine is held in high respect, but James Dean at the piano ? My word indeed !

This week german radio station Deutschlandfunk will broadcast a few GG specials during weekday afternoons which can be heard via web stream on their website:

Other radio stations in the german-speaking world are also paying tribute to GG either this or next week (including our national public broadcaster here in CH, which is Radio DRS) and further articles in the feuilletons are likely to follow. I shall post more details as I get them.

Pat

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