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bbboeken's review
4.0
Dit boek bestaat uit drie delen: een tweedelig interview dat de schrijver van Glenn Gould heeft afgenomen (met een week tussen het eerste en het tweede deel), en een derde deel dat handelt over de 'affaire' met George Szell. Vooral delen één en drie waren interessant. De eerste twee bladzijden van dat interview geven bijzonder veel inzicht in de wijze waarop Gould pianospelen benadert.
"I was recently talking to a group of educators about the problems concerning the teaching of pianists in institutionalized technical 'factories'. [...] And I said: Given half an hour of your time and your spirit and a quiet room, I could teach any of you how to play the piano - everything there is to know about playing the piano can be taught in half an hour, I'm convinced of it. I've never done it and I never intend to do it, because it's centipedal in the Schoenbergian sense - that is to say, in the sense in which Schoenberg was afraid to be asked why he used a certain row in a certain way, saying he felt like the centipede, which doesn't want to think about the movement of its hundred legs because it would become impotent; it couldn't walk at all if it did think about it."
Wat meteen de reden is waarom elke goede (muziek)leraar altijd wel aanhaalt dat de student niet te veel mag nadenken over wat hij doet.
"I was recently talking to a group of educators about the problems concerning the teaching of pianists in institutionalized technical 'factories'. [...] And I said: Given half an hour of your time and your spirit and a quiet room, I could teach any of you how to play the piano - everything there is to know about playing the piano can be taught in half an hour, I'm convinced of it. I've never done it and I never intend to do it, because it's centipedal in the Schoenbergian sense - that is to say, in the sense in which Schoenberg was afraid to be asked why he used a certain row in a certain way, saying he felt like the centipede, which doesn't want to think about the movement of its hundred legs because it would become impotent; it couldn't walk at all if it did think about it."
Wat meteen de reden is waarom elke goede (muziek)leraar altijd wel aanhaalt dat de student niet te veel mag nadenken over wat hij doet.
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