[Dixielandjazz] Gould / Beatles

[Charlie Hooks]

on 10/2/02 8:45 AM, Nancy Giffin at nancyink@ulink.net wrote:

> Perhaps Beethoven or Bach would've looked at Gould's favorite music and
> called it "resourceless, amateur, indifferent, and myopic." Who knows. Not
> that I would know, but I like to think W.A. Mozart might've liked jazz. :)

You might be right.  Both Mozart and Back were very much into improvisation,
we know that.  We also know Glenn Gould didn't think much of Mozart, either;
considered him too simplistic--which, compared with Bach, he probably is. I
wouldn't want to do without either one, and certainly not without Gould's
recording of "The Goldberg Variations" (on piano where it belongs;
Landowska's recording on harpsichord just can't compare in power.)

On the other hand, doing without the Beatles strikes me as a wonderful idea!

Charlie