I am with you windbag - the combination of Bach's brilliant music, Lenny's teaching and Mr. Gould's amazing playing - it blows me away.
I listened to Gould's playing for years, read a biography about him, have watched films that he made, but when I saw this video for the first time I thought "That boy's on the spectrum". No doubt about it, as near as I can tell. But what intelligence and insight he brought to the subject matter - I am still in awe.
Oscar Levant was a character - I saw him in some movies and he truly was a polymath. And a hypochondriac - the old joke is that his epitaph reads "I told them I was ill!"
Once again, the fine line between genius and insanity - which he claims to have erased.
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Far away days. Many would have listened with interest to that lesson.
I don't have any words to describe how wonderful that was.
I am with you windbag - the combination of Bach's brilliant music, Lenny's teaching and Mr. Gould's amazing playing - it blows me away.
I listened to Gould's playing for years, read a biography about him, have watched films that he made, but when I saw this video for the first time I thought "That boy's on the spectrum". No doubt about it, as near as I can tell. But what intelligence and insight he brought to the subject matter - I am still in awe.
I fell asleep after listening to that last night. Very nice.
Lenny had oodles of charm. Is there anything more moving than being reminded of past connections?
What's a Steinway?
That link goes into a bit of detail about Glenn Gould and his obsessive qualities. Fascinating guy. Worth reading about.
Sixty. You have been a wonderful and invaluable addition to this blog.
You good taste, knowledge and style have really helped in the balance of our competing world views.
Thank you for posting this and thank you for all of your very interesting posts.
Now you if only started wearing shoes and stopped giving snakes a reach around while calling on Jezus we would have something.
Carry on brother.
FWIW, Sixty is from the classy end of the state.
Thank you Troops, now come on down and we will do a healin' on ya. BE HEALED! Bam. Oops, sorry about that. Clean up on aisle Trooper...
Trooper, as you were posting that comment, I was adding something similar at the end of the previous Flar post.
But I forgot about the need for shoes and snakes!!
Well. Very nice. But Oscar Levant could play like that while on heroin. Let give Gould the works and see if he can play!!
Oscar Levant was a character - I saw him in some movies and he truly was a polymath. And a hypochondriac - the old joke is that his epitaph reads "I told them I was ill!"
Once again, the fine line between genius and insanity - which he claims to have erased.
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