Glenn Gould and Humphrey Burton on Schoenberg - Part 2 (OFFICIAL)

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  • čas přidán 13. 03. 2019
  • Glenn Gould is interviewed by the famous television presenter Humphrey Burton and discusses why he believes that Schoenberg, above all modern composers, will achieve immortality. The Interview was originally broadcast on 5th April, 1966.
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Komentáře • 78

  • @alessionanni
    @alessionanni Před 5 lety +23

    Thank you for this incredible document. Years after Gould passed away, we are still here, incredibly just scratching the surface of his incredible work.

  • @philipcai9499
    @philipcai9499 Před 5 lety +22

    Amazing.
    It's people like Gould who were able to reveal the true greatness of Schoenberg to the rest of the world, especially those who may have been at first apprehensive.

  • @LesterBrunt
    @LesterBrunt Před 4 lety +40

    Schoenberg’s books are better than most music educations. The guy had tremendous knowledge of harmony and composition.
    He also has a pretty funny way of writing sometimes. One of his books starts with him talking about arriving in the US and getting a job teaching theory and being appalled by the low standards of the students. I mean could you imagine getting into Berkley (if I remember correctly) and here is your new theory teacher, this stern Austrian WW1 vet who can’t believe how bad the students are. It is
    like out of a movie.

  • @santih5043
    @santih5043 Před 3 lety +6

    Lucidity is the word that comes to mind when listening to both Gould's analysis and interpretations on the piano.

  • @paolabartolini36
    @paolabartolini36 Před 5 lety +19

    I love Gould’s voice...🙂

    • @phoebelinden9602
      @phoebelinden9602 Před 4 lety +6

      Yes! His vocabulary, his presence, his voice -- all so beautiful.

    • @johnryskamp2943
      @johnryskamp2943 Před 2 lety

      No, actually, Gould's sophistication is rather amateurish. And he's uptight. All Canooks was uptight, and I wonder why, especially since, with permission of their owners the U.S., they are babied cradle to grave with a welfare state. Lucky for them they have commodities!!

  • @MrGer2295
    @MrGer2295 Před 5 lety +12

    WOW ! LOVE THE PIANO PERFORMANCE ! THANKS FOR SHARING 🎈❤️🍀🎶🎹❤️🎈

  • @hurricane_hazel
    @hurricane_hazel Před 2 lety +5

    16:25 Oh Glenn, my love, I would put my bet on your prospects for immortality.

  • @aenadanziger6252
    @aenadanziger6252 Před 5 lety +2

    Yeeeeeees!))) Thanks!

  • @JaySuryavanshiMusic
    @JaySuryavanshiMusic Před 5 lety +5

    Brilliantissimo. Brainiac Gould😋👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼

  • @davidhull9510
    @davidhull9510 Před rokem +1

    Amazing

  • @plekkchand
    @plekkchand Před 5 lety +6

    priceless.

  • @stapler942
    @stapler942 Před 4 lety +6

    8:38 The "we" includes Pierre Boulez for sure.

    • @blankname4716
      @blankname4716 Před 4 lety

      Thanks for that. Was very curious.

    • @plekkchand
      @plekkchand Před 3 lety

      Absolutely.

    • @DeflatingAtheism
      @DeflatingAtheism Před 3 lety

      Yep, it was Boulez who wrote "Schoenberg Is Dead". Ironically, the mid-century vogue for cool, austere, pointillist music first required Schoenberg's expressionism- which was really just heightened Romanticism- to break the mold of tonality.

  • @nicholastessier8504
    @nicholastessier8504 Před 3 lety +1

    "childish mathematics" Haha I love this! Gave me a huge laugh. Love Gould :)

  • @Johnwilkinsonofficial
    @Johnwilkinsonofficial Před 5 lety +2

    🙏

  • @mharbaugh
    @mharbaugh Před 3 lety +1

    Leonard Rosenman wrote the soundtrack to Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home!

  • @phoebelinden9602
    @phoebelinden9602 Před 4 lety +2

    10:20 begins discussion on Ode to Napoleon Bonaparte

  • @johnryskamp2943
    @johnryskamp2943 Před 2 lety +2

    The sooner we kick sound out of music, the better

  • @culturehorse
    @culturehorse Před 2 lety

    What did GG play there at the beginning? Anyone know/recognize it they did not name it. thx

  • @machida5114
    @machida5114 Před rokem

    sodelicious... 🙂

  • @not2tees
    @not2tees Před 5 lety +6

    12 tone music is indeed perfect for movies set in insane asylums. Gould's enthusiastic pro-12-tone comments are delightfully interesting, for all that.

    • @DeflatingAtheism
      @DeflatingAtheism Před 3 lety +2

      You hear it in lots of mid-Century Hollywood productions. The incidental music for The Andy Griffith Show was atonal, so it was good enough for Mayberry!

    • @not2tees
      @not2tees Před 3 lety

      @@DeflatingAtheism Mayberry . . . mind boggling!

  • @exapplerrelppaxe7952
    @exapplerrelppaxe7952 Před 3 lety +1

    I’ll have to take Gould’s word for it. All I know is that I prefer atonality before Schoenberg (Debussy, for example) and from his contemporaries (Webern and Hindemith, for example).

  • @noontimespender
    @noontimespender Před 5 lety +3

    Who are the avante garde "we" that were looking down their nose at Schoenberg?

    • @dovic86
      @dovic86 Před 5 lety +6

      Probably Boulez

  • @m.a.3322
    @m.a.3322 Před rokem +1

    3:47, 7:30, 11:37, 13:34 GG is so cute haha

  • @simoncornaz469
    @simoncornaz469 Před 5 lety

    Where Come From the excertpt starting at 10:40 ??

  • @Twentythousandlps
    @Twentythousandlps Před 4 lety

    Yes, the remark at 9:04 is about Boulez, who had long before deplored Schonberg's "retrograde" tendencies. But why is GG so afraid to identify him by name?

    • @phoebelinden9602
      @phoebelinden9602 Před 4 lety +1

      Oh, Gould is NOT afraid to name Boulez by name and does so astutely in an essay entitled "Boulez" included in The Glenn Gould Reader.

  • @tejasnair3399
    @tejasnair3399 Před 4 lety +1

    What is this piece? 14:57

  • @mishasawangwan6652
    @mishasawangwan6652 Před 5 lety +1

    lol if you want to understand schoenberg just read his books.. not his music

  • @amitbenhur3722
    @amitbenhur3722 Před 5 lety

    9:04 Who DOES he mean??

    • @tomvl3993
      @tomvl3993 Před 5 lety

      Stravinsky? Webern? Berg? Take your pick.

    • @amitbenhur3722
      @amitbenhur3722 Před 5 lety

      @maestoso-allegro
      Yeah yeah you're right. Probably Stockhausen as well I guess

    • @gopalkambo5885
      @gopalkambo5885 Před 4 lety +2

      See Boulez, "Schoenberg est mort"

    • @DeflatingAtheism
      @DeflatingAtheism Před 3 lety

      The reference to "celeste" is a most likely a reference to Boulez' and Messiaen's "gamelan" textures

  • @vintagebikes4215
    @vintagebikes4215 Před rokem +1

    This composer has always been the darling of music's elite intelligentsia, but never beyond that. It's not pleasing to listen to. Yes, it can be understood. Gould is seldom wrong, but this time he was.

    • @Echo20394
      @Echo20394 Před 9 měsíci +1

      Ppl can have different emotional reactions to music, I quite enjoy a lot of Schoenberg and find it very pleasing to listen to :)

  • @seanmchugh840
    @seanmchugh840 Před 3 lety

    Gould is wrong in trying to argue that consonance and dissonanace can be organized in any other way than tonality already organizes them. Tonality in its wide range of applications is all there is and all the mind will ever look for- the rest is empty waffle, even if Gould thinks he's being sensitive.

    • @joshhermantin
      @joshhermantin Před 3 lety +2

      booooo

    • @koenraadspijker7776
      @koenraadspijker7776 Před 3 lety +1

      Lol how did you even come to check out this docu with that point of view..?

    • @seanmchugh840
      @seanmchugh840 Před 3 lety

      @@koenraadspijker7776 Take care...

    • @koenraadspijker7776
      @koenraadspijker7776 Před 3 lety

      Sorry didn't mean to offend you.. :) just occured to me that you would especially watch this entire documentary to try and contemplate on the opposite you're stating.

    • @seanmchugh840
      @seanmchugh840 Před 3 lety

      @@koenraadspijker7776 No problem; Gould is one of the great figures in keyboard history; there's an interesting connection between Bachian calculation in his semi-modal harmony and the SVS. Bach has the superior tonal reference however while SVS of course becomes ruddlerless and meaningless.