…. Oh yes… 2 great Canadians! If you’d grown up there, Lauryn, you would have known these God beings intimately from birth.🙌🏽🙏🏽🙇🏼♀️👼 looking forward to listening to your brother
Thank you Sis. I’m encouraged by your words. Indeed conducting, when letting go, is feeling the divine. Gould was a master at hearing and feeling the music. He was the action of music being made, similar to the action of love that you wrote about.
But- and it’s a big but- he was addicted to prescription drugs which eventually killed him by stroke. Maybe there is a release for musicians when taking the drugs, as most rock musicians will attest. But like the moniker- sex, drugs, rocknroll- they do die early. As did Gould.
His Bach is sublime. Not everything he played worked. For example- The famous speech by Bernstein disagreeing with Gould’s VERY SLOW interpretation of Brahms 1 piano concerto . Lenny said the public deserved to hear it. The truth is, which I later was told, is that Gould could not play the octaves in tempo. That’s it. Therefore he turned his disability into his own self- justified opportunity. No one liked his Brahms. Everyone loves his Bach. Sometimes better to stay with what works.
Lenny was actually a fan of Gould's, even though he could be unpredictable, just like the Great Mystery some of us call God. Not everything Gould did worked, and not everything God does works, but it's perfect, nonetheless. Imperfection is beauty all the same.
Amazing and thank you for the enlightenment in both message and this performance!
Thank you, Gale! So glad you enjoyed both!
…. Oh yes… 2 great Canadians! If you’d grown up there, Lauryn, you would have known these God beings intimately from birth.🙌🏽🙏🏽🙇🏼♀️👼 looking forward to listening to your brother
Thanks for reminding me they are both Canadian! Canada blessed us with two immortals!
Thank you Sis. I’m encouraged by your words. Indeed conducting, when letting go, is feeling the divine. Gould was a master at hearing and feeling the music. He was the action of music being made, similar to the action of love that you wrote about.
But- and it’s a big but- he was addicted to prescription drugs which eventually killed him by stroke. Maybe there is a release for musicians when taking the drugs, as most rock musicians will attest. But like the moniker- sex, drugs, rocknroll- they do die early. As did Gould.
His Bach is sublime. Not everything he played worked. For example- The famous speech by Bernstein disagreeing with Gould’s VERY SLOW interpretation of Brahms 1 piano concerto . Lenny said the public deserved to hear it. The truth is, which I later was told, is that Gould could not play the octaves in tempo. That’s it. Therefore he turned his disability into his own self- justified opportunity. No one liked his Brahms. Everyone loves his Bach. Sometimes better to stay with what works.
https://youtu.be/peFMHJa57H8?feature=shared
Lenny was actually a fan of Gould's, even though he could be unpredictable, just like the Great Mystery some of us call God. Not everything Gould did worked, and not everything God does works, but it's perfect, nonetheless. Imperfection is beauty all the same.