Karl Miller asks: of me, re the Goldbergs:

>Do you know what it is that attracts you to this piece?  Do you have
>favorite performances?

Unquestionably I got started with the Gould 1955 version, which hit
the record stores my freshman year in college -- an impressionable time,
wouldn't you agree?  -- and then I started learning to play it.  Musically,
of course, it is endlessly fascinating.

Favorite performances?  Depends on the day, but I still love that
original Gould as well as its 1981 version.  I love Perahia, the very
recent Simone Dinnerstein (which has acquired, given the length of time
it's been out, a disparately large number of naysayers, to whom I say
'pfui').  One I love that no one I know has heard is by Bruno Canino.

Recently a friend told me he really doesn't like the work.  I looked at
him with new eyes.

Scott Morrison

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