[Dixielandjazz] Gould / Beatles

[John Petters]

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

A musician friend of mine said on hearing of the demise of Geo Harrison
"good two down, two to go"
John Petters
www.traditional-jazz.com
Amateur Radio Station G3YPZ
----- Original Message -----
From: "Charlie Hooks" <charliehooks@earthlink.net>
To: "DJML Dixieland Jazz" <dixielandjazz@ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 6:36 PM
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Gould / Beatles


> 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.)
>
> Charlie
>
>
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