Would you expect The NY Times to be objective here? I was on to the guy as
soon as I came to the punch line on the Picasso/Stein asinine "modern
instance".
Can you imagine this critic writing a favorable review considering his
audience of educated intellectuals primed as they are to immediately
associate the name Ezra Pound with the produce of evil empires?
    Tim, thanks for the info on Gould's recording. My wife loves Gould, and
Wagner is almost the sun and moon to me, "Ein Tischler in seinem Laden."
"Wahn! Wahn! Uberall! Wahn!
Charles
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>From: Tim Romano <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: NY Times on Pound's music/Sun. 7-27-03
>Date: Fri, Aug 1, 2003, 3:28 PM
>

> And to counter the oafish pot shots he takes at Wagner and Gould, may I
> recommend the exquisite:
>
> Wagner's Siegfried Idyll
> Glenn Gould conducts the original version for 13 instruments
> (also plays his own piano transcriptions of Wagner)
> SONY SK46279
>
> Tim Romano
>
> At 02:57 PM 8/1/03, Tim Redman wrote:
>>[....]
>>  The
>>review would have been much better if the reviewer had just stuck to music.
>>But of late the NY Times has acquired a reputation for dubious
>>inventiveness.