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Re: GG: Metronomes (was Re: No, Gould's so fast)



"Time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life."

-- William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

"Anne M. Marble" wrote:

In the "Selected Letters" book, a fan had sent a letter asking Glenn Gould
about metronome markings for some of his pieces. And GG replied that he
couldn't help as he had never owned a metronome and wasn't familiar with
the markings.