John P wrote about Glenn Gould:

>Oh, I believe Glenn Gould had a great respect for Bach; but he fell
>prey to the adoration he saw in the faces of the people around him;
>he developed a "prima donna" complex.

I don't think so.  John Cage did:  he was show man, not a musician, Gould
was just a solipsist.  He never cares if there is a lot of listeners
arround him or not; he just do what he wants; almost an authist, tring to
scape to the fifth dimention.

>It happens everywhere in the arts.  But his death at so early an age was
>a tragedy, his musical insight might have deepened with an additional
>decade of life.

IMHO he was ready at 1953, as everybody not deaf knows an knew at that
time!

Renato Vinicius Diniz de Carvalho
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