Scotty, Would you tell us more about the old days at Columbia (much different than Sony is now I presume!)? I'd also be interested to hear your ideas about why the g'berg LP was so successful. Did you think as you were working on the disc that it would ever be that successful? Did GG stike you as a special figure at the time (aside from his eccentricity!) as compared with other muscians you worked with? What do you think about the 20-bit remastering of the Gould recordings in the Sony edition? Could you tell us also about the making of _Glenn Gould on the Record_? Many critics (including Marshall McLuhan) consider that documentary to be a turning point in tv history because it showed things "behind the scenes." _What did you think of 32 Short Films about Glenn Gould_? I guess that's enough in the question department for now-- don't want to flood you. You can reply to f_minor@email.rutgers.edu if you'd like all the list members to receive your answers. Otherwise, if you send your reply to me I'll post it to the list for you. Thanks!!! Mary Jo mwatts@rci.rutgers.edu
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- To: jphill@frank.mtsu.edu
- Subject: Fminor
- From: Dizscott@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 7 Nov 1997 08:30:54 -0500 (EST)
- Cc: mwatts@eden.rutgers.edu
Greetings to jh and Mary Jo, Thanks for the welcome. It's nice to be on board and tell you "gone and forgotten", "ain't necessarily so". dizscott actually is my wife Anne Gillespie who puts up with all of my foibles. But jh, you certainly have made me dust off some cobwebs on my mind-40 years worth! For GG's Goldberg, we used on Telefunken(direct) u47 (see Life Magazines October issue page 83, The Millenium). Glenn is singularly the only musician pictured in the 1000 years; picture taken by Gordon Parks in 30th street. For On The Record, I think we used two Telefundens U 49's in the mid position ( not omni but not sharp direct #1) I'll mull that over. Those were the glory days of Columbia Records. Did you know that the Lp will be fifty years old in June 1998? I was at the birth and death of that record which changed the course of recorded music in the world. More on that if you'd like. Ciao, Scotty
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