Yeah, that's pretty egregious. Robert Johnson's subtle insinuations put this man's lyrics to shame. The good news is that we have a new theme song.
P.S. We need another serious music thread.
Candidate for the least sexy song about sex ever.
If it's even about sex. Just miserable and rather disgusting
This makes "Wang Dang Sweet Poontang" seem sophisticated by comparison.
On a more genteel note, for any classical music geeks/nerds reading, I have just now discovered that the Verbier Festival is being webcast. Incredible stuff -- Thomas Quasthoff, Evgeny Kissin, Anne Sophie von Otter -- in high-quality streams with good sound. They'll shortly be streaming a live webcast with Martha Argerich playing Prokofiev 3, and -- and! -- today and tomorrow they're showing Bruno Monsaingeon's Richter documentary, Richter: The Enigma, one of the greatest music films ever made, with a fascinating backstory.
What did Glenn Gould have to say about Richter? Two pretty odd fish. Richter's preference for performing in the middle of nowhere (e.g. Siberia) is rare and commendable. If Monty Python still existed and took requests I'd ask for a head-to-head Richter-Gould eccentricity contest skit.
Gould described Richter's playing as 'miraculous' more than once (he wrote extended notes on Richter at some point, but I've never come across them), and Richter praised Gould's Bach. But Gould's various neuroses against Richter's self-loathing -- that would be a clash of the titans.
Here's something on Gould and Richter from a classical music nerd, perhaps even a geek.
8: "Wang Dang Sweet Poontang"
My search for the perfect seduction soundtrack is over. God bless the Nuge.
11: It's a panty-dropper.
Pletnev is conducting the concert with Argerich, which is just starting. This is going to be awesome.
Gould's camp chair, overcoats in summer, eye-level address of the keyboard, and the very audible humming and singing on all the recordings aren't matched by anything you can see or hear w/ Richter, are they? I've loved R's recordings but they don't have the strangeness of Gould's in these trivial ways—I'm not talking about interpretation.
13: True. Richter was a model of probity in performance.
Buddy Guy grunts and mutters while he's playing ("Stone Crazy"). Probably learned it from Gould. Monica Seles also made funny noises while playing.
There's a subtle pattern in life, you see.
The guy consistently spells Richter "Richiter". I'm sure that there's a reason, but wow!!! Geek.
Oh, wow. This song is so boring and depressing. This one is much better.
Here's a paragraph of Gould from The Prospects of Recording:
Further evidence of this curious anachronism can be found in some of the recitals recorded by Sviatoslav Richter in Eastern Europe, of which the magnificent performance of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, taped in Sofia, Bulgaria, is a good example. Here is a great artist with an incomparable interpretation transcribed by technicians who are determined that their microphones will in no way amplify, dissect, or intrude upon the occasion being preserved. Richter's superbly lucid playing is sabotaged by some obsequious miking which permits us, at best, a top-of-the-gods half-earful. Unlike their colleagues in North America, who are aware of serving a public which to a considerable extent has discovered music through records and who evaluate their own presence in the booth as crucial to the success of the end product, the production crew in Sofia, offstage in the wings of some palace of municipal amusement, made no such claims for the autonomy of their craft. They sought only to pursue it as an inconspicuous compement of Richter's performance.
One thing I suspect is that the tempo markings of the openings Musorgsky's piano Pictures and Ravel's orchestral version are different, with the piano brisker and the orchestral more deliberate (marked tenuto). I heard Ravel first and like it better in that respect.
heheh. when i first scrolled down to this topic, i read 'gherkin' instead of glen orlin. heheh.