Glenn Gould chats with Aaron Copland

[@jeffryphillipsburns]

Copeland comes across as very warm person and completely natural.

[@herbertwells8757]

Copland is great, very candid but also warm and kindly.

[@r.i.p.volodya]

I never understood (let alone appreciated) Schoenberg's music UNITL I heard Glenn play it.

[@charleswinokoor6023]

It turns out Gould was an excellent interviewer.

[@rbbonotto]

Pity Gould didn't play more American music.

[@Mrcatlistening]

Copland's book "What to Listen For In Music" is a must read for anyone interested in the craft.

[@ephemeraforever4580]

Yes! Indispensable and easy to read.

[@chickenflavor9880]

I will read it.

[@srothbardt]

Good book by a good writer and musician

[@charlesreidy2765]

What a great discussion. It's the dedication that people like Glenn Gould feel toward Schoenberg that will keep his music alive. It was Gould's recording of Schoenberg's piano music in the 60s that attracted me to Schoenberg's music, after I'd previously dismissed him as academic. Gould made the music come alive.

[@longhaulblue]

Fantastic. I'm a great admirer of both musicians. Copland is such a clear thinker, also very unassuming, generous, and empathetic.

[@paxwallacejazz]

As unequivocally brilliant a musician as Glen Gould was, he wasn't a particularly good composer. So here he is very intelligently interviewing a truly Great Composer. How interesting is that? I detect great respect in this interaction. Copland's response is very detailed and illuminating.

[@neilsaunders9309]

I'd dispute that Glenn Gould was not a particularly good composer, although I'll concede that he wasn't at all prolific. This is because he was so knowledgeable about the history and theory of music that he was self-critical to the point of self-paralysis. The String Quartet, Op.1 is an extraordinary work, while "So You Want To Write A Fugue" is a contrapuntal tour de force masquerading as a squib. Copland himself wrote attractive, colourful and tuneful music with a very distinct character, but I would not locate his works in the very highest ranks of compositional art.

[@srothbardt]

Gould was a good writer for radio and television

[@muslit]

The irony is that today there's hardly a composer using the 12 tone method. But that doesn't diminish Schoenberg's achievement: the emancipation of the dissonance.

[@jungastein3952]

and what a surreptitious, unintended, influence his music has had on the popular nervous system via TV, movies, all the AV (educational and recreational and informational) media

[@thomastereszkiewicz2241]

Fascinating, many new insights for sure.

[@circa1907czec]

Thank you for posting a great interview. It is refreshing to hear two musicians/composers talk about music intelligently for a change.

[@jaspernatchez]

In the words of Bernard Holland, longtime music critic of the NY Times "The promise that uncompromising musicians were writing unappreciated works for the predilections of listeners not yet born worked through much of the post-Beethoven era, but posterity has given up waiting. Schoenberg's String Trio is no more loved now than it was 54 years ago."

[@srothbardt]

I’ve always liked the String Trio, even as a kid.

[@andrewanderson6121]

To say that that it is not loved because it is not widely loved is nonsense! It is also irrelevant. None of the composers that many of us love are not 'widely' loved, but it doesn't change the fact of their greatness--and, make no mistake, Schoenberg is very definitely a great composer in his music and in his positive influence on subsequent composers. Finally, his string trio is truly a masterpiece, not only among his works, but among masterpieces by the likes of Mozart and Beethoven.

[@plekkchand]

Very valuable document. Thanks!

[@brucecross1164]

I'm glad you enjoyed it!

[@j.p.westwater2334]

@@brucecross1164 This channel is such a gold mine, thank you so much for uploading these

[@ravingircey]

Thank you for this!

[@rudolfpianos]

Happy to see this corroborate with my paper 'from the horse's mouth'!

[@srothbardt]

His late works are very interesting

[@TheSonsofHorusx]

Time to put on the woodwind quintet and eat my breakfast!

[@francescaemc2]

Grazie

[@douglasdickerson5184]

💙💙💙

[@Twentythousandlps]

Copland was unusual in making use of serial procedures in some of his work, especially from 1950 on, without becoming a "twelve-tone composer". It was an alternative way of musical thinking for him, to be drawn upon as he wished.

[@adude9882]

Oh he really really didn't like that middle european mentality did he?!