The Reverse Is Often True Too. Alas.

The reverse is often true too. Alas.

“The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.” ― Nikolai Gogol

J.S.Bach, Golberg Variation n.2, score with notes by Glenn Gould

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After a black day, I play Haydn,

and feel a little warmth in my hands.

The keys are ready. Kind hammers fall.

The sound is spirited, green, and full of silence.

The sound says that freedom exists

and someone pays no tax to Caesar.

I shove my hands in my haydnpockets

and act like a man who is calm about it all.

I raise my haydnflag. The signal is:

“We do not surrender. But want peace.”

The music is a house of glass standing on a slope;

rocks are flying, rocks are rolling.

The rocks roll straight through the house

but every pane of glass is still whole.

- “Allegro,” by Tomas Transtromer, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature today. Poem translated by Goran Malmqvist.

Some nice clarity here. 

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Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827): Piano Sonata No. 21 in C major ‘Waldstein’, Op. 53 (1804) - I. Allegro con brio

Tibor Szász - piano

The thing I love about this above all (well, not above all but after many years of familiarity) is the smudgy, dirty, completely disheveled state of the piano-top. Can you imagine this being shot today in a modern television studio? So amusing, so endearing, so gone forever.

Glenn Gould - Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No.5

Nice size. Intimate.

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