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Showing posts with label Glen Gould. Show all posts
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Sunday, October 04, 2020

A Loving Message to the Master

N.B.:  I put this on my Facebook page, too...but just in case GG doesn't DO Facebook....here goes. :-)

A message for Glenn Gould, wherever you are in the hereafter:

Dear Mr. Gould...
...Sir...
...a consummate artist like yourself...
...is there a REASON you don't observe the very clearly written REPEAT sign in the first movement of the Pathetique Sonata?
...did you talk it over with Herr Beethoven beforehand?...
...or are you perhaps talking it over with him now...
...and giggling because stumbling piano players such as I can't figure out WHAT JUST HAPPENED?

Any illumination on this, kind sir, would be appreciated.

Yours,
Janny