Klarinet Archive - Posting 000930.txt from 1999/10

From: "Karl Krelove" <kkrelove@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Booing for slow tempo
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 07:31:03 -0400

> -----Original Message-----
> From: avrahm galper [mailto:agalper@-----.com]
> Sent: Thursday, October 28, 1999 10:13 PM
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: [kl] Booing for slow tempo
>
>
> Boos for a slow tempo?
>
> The recent postings about the slow tempo of a piano soloist reminds me
> of another slow tempo player.
>
> It was Glenn Gould with the NY Phil playing the Brahms first piano
> concerto.
>
> Leonard Bernstein came out before the playing and told the audience that
> the tempo of the interpretation was not his but Glenn Gould's.
> Then Gould came out and proceeded to play the concerto at a snails pace,
> the first movement at least.
>
> There was no booing. Everyone was polite, not necessarily agreeing with
> it but no booing.
>
But, oy-vay, what a nasty review that smart Mr. Schoenberg - you know, the
one who wrote the music column for the New York Times - wrote the next
morning in the paper!

Karl Krelove

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