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Posted by Martin Walker on January 11, 2007, 11:30 am
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Nice try at provocation, Paul. The remark "Wehr is the pianist Glenn Gould should have been, the pianist he thought he was" is of course unadulterated nonsense: Gould was exactly the pianist he thought he was - one capable of a brilliant, daringly explorative performance of the Goldberg Variations in a concert hall but who chose for aesthetic and personal reasons a different path, which involved imaginative use of technology. Why on earth "should" Gould have been like Wehr? This sounds a bit like chip-on-shoulder
disdain. If Gould hadn't existed it would have been necessary to invent him - or what would music critics do?

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