Tuesday, January 05, 2010
My own personal philosophy of interviewing - and I've done quite a bit of it on the air as perhaps you know - is that the most illuminating disclosures usually derive from areas only indirectly related to the interviewee's line of work.
It was a very penetrating interview, the most intelligent questions I think I'd ever heard about the North from experts, laymen, or anything else, questions that required long answers. As I would start to speak or make a point he would register his feelings not by voice but by a smile but all the time he was using his hands and conducting. This was slightly off-putting when you're trying to think dep thoughts, but because I had no idea what this was all about, but he continuously was just waving his arms and would sort of bring up this idea and so on. I was his orchestra for that hour.
So he decided to wear this business suit and I discussed it with him, and I said, "You know, Glenn, I am not sure the public will understand what you're trying to convery but if you want to do it, go ahead," which he did. And he was probably the first artist who went out on stage without what was considered the proper concert attire, but he again was at the forefront of change.
He used to wake up at about 4:00 in the afternoon, and to get himself awake he used to phone people and I was one of those people he phoned. He'd talk about anything, you know. He just wanted a listening board.
The phone rang, and as I picked it up it was Glenn Gould on the other end and he said, "Hi, this is Glenn Gould, and I feel like talking."
"Mario" he said, "I came across the most marvelous opera for your program". I said "What is it?" He said, "You know Ernst Kreck?" I said "Yes, certainly", He said "I've got this marvelous opera by him." He said, "Wait I've got the score here, I'll sing it to you." So he sang this entire one-act opera, one-act, two-scene opera, over the telephone in his not-very-pleasant voice." [How much I miss this beautiful loving context]
I like what he did about the Sortex stock!
In the fall 1977 the US government sent two ships, Voyagers I and II, into space where they are eventually destined to reach the edges of our galexy. In the hope that someone, somewhere would intercept these crafts, a variety of messages were placed on board that would be capable of communicating the existance of an intelligent creature living on a planet called Earch. Among these was included a short prelude by Johann Sepastian Bach, as performed by Glenn Gould.
Glen Gould died in October 1982.
Voyagers I and II left our Solar System respectively in 1987, and 1989.
It was a very penetrating interview, the most intelligent questions I think I'd ever heard about the North from experts, laymen, or anything else, questions that required long answers. As I would start to speak or make a point he would register his feelings not by voice but by a smile but all the time he was using his hands and conducting. This was slightly off-putting when you're trying to think dep thoughts, but because I had no idea what this was all about, but he continuously was just waving his arms and would sort of bring up this idea and so on. I was his orchestra for that hour.
So he decided to wear this business suit and I discussed it with him, and I said, "You know, Glenn, I am not sure the public will understand what you're trying to convery but if you want to do it, go ahead," which he did. And he was probably the first artist who went out on stage without what was considered the proper concert attire, but he again was at the forefront of change.
He used to wake up at about 4:00 in the afternoon, and to get himself awake he used to phone people and I was one of those people he phoned. He'd talk about anything, you know. He just wanted a listening board.
The phone rang, and as I picked it up it was Glenn Gould on the other end and he said, "Hi, this is Glenn Gould, and I feel like talking."
"Mario" he said, "I came across the most marvelous opera for your program". I said "What is it?" He said, "You know Ernst Kreck?" I said "Yes, certainly", He said "I've got this marvelous opera by him." He said, "Wait I've got the score here, I'll sing it to you." So he sang this entire one-act opera, one-act, two-scene opera, over the telephone in his not-very-pleasant voice." [How much I miss this beautiful loving context]
I like what he did about the Sortex stock!
In the fall 1977 the US government sent two ships, Voyagers I and II, into space where they are eventually destined to reach the edges of our galexy. In the hope that someone, somewhere would intercept these crafts, a variety of messages were placed on board that would be capable of communicating the existance of an intelligent creature living on a planet called Earch. Among these was included a short prelude by Johann Sepastian Bach, as performed by Glenn Gould.
Glen Gould died in October 1982.
Voyagers I and II left our Solar System respectively in 1987, and 1989.
Labels: Glen Gould, Movie
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