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[Robin Landseadel]

That would be the Goldberg Variations [earthshaking stuff, btw] unless  
you're contracting Glenn Gould & Poe even more than Richard Powers did.

In Bach's  variations all that remains of the original aria is the  
bass line.  The work is big, structurally as about as perfect as it  
gets. Beethoven obviously used it as a model for his Diabelli  
Variations—now on Broadway and featuring Hanoi Jane ! ! !

http://theater2.nytimes.com/2009/03/10/theater/reviews/10thir.html?scp=1&sq=33%20variations&st=cse

It is also music, as Glenn Gould would have said, like Orlando Gibbons  
or Late Beethoven, music that sounds better in the imagination, in  
one's memory than in performance—there is no ideal instrument for this  
music. Considering Gould's Puritan mindset and tendencies towards  
spiritualism I found Richard Powers failure to mention the Canadian  
Pianist's name even once particularly interesting, though it's obvious  
that the "author" of the record of the Goldbergs in the "Goldbug  
Variations" is Glenn Gould. Powers seems as keen on ghosts &  
signifiers [in his own way] as Pynchon.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6984208089899995423


On Mar 20, 2009, at 7:48 AM, Henry Musikar wrote:

> I enjoyed Power's Gold Bug Variations: http://tinyurl.com/goldbug-variations
> .  Not earthshaking, but it did get me listening to the Gouldbug  
> Variations,
> http://tinyurl.com/gouldbug-variations , over and over in my  
> cubicle, until
> I easily discerned the aria in each.