[For Lenore Stephens] Glenn
Gould plays the same Bach like a freight train or odd raindrops,
and it works each time. How does he do that? Thelonious Monk reduces his tune to
remote quotes, improvisation rendering the melody invisible. But every change is
audible. John Lennon engulfs the space like Ben E. King as his
Buddy Holly riff laughs with glee. They never learnt scales. Claude Debussy
makes a second into a minute, the melody turning into a force of
nature, peaceful as January days. Everything’s happening, now. Claudio
Monteverdi, voice and fabulous instrument gliding like a skiff over
water.
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