Re: [ARSCLIST] What was/is "The Golden Age" ?

[Tom Fine <tflists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This is fantastic! Printed out and hung on the wall.

So TRUE!

-- Tom Fine

PS -- do you think the Yamaha Disclavier used in that new "remake" of the 
Glenn Gould Bach just released on SACD by Sony will be considered "Golden 
Age" by the robotic martians when they wipe out all us humans and take over 
the place?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Lennick" <dlennick@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2007 5:46 PM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] What was/is "The Golden Age" ?


> Golden Age pianists include (almost) anybody who's dead. Anybody from that 
> same era who lived forever (i.e. Rubinstein) is excluded. Any dead pianist 
> you've never heard of (except Joyce Hatto) is Golden Age. Oscar Levant is 
> not Golden Age. Anybody who ever won a competition is not Golden Age. 
> Anybody who even ENTERED a competition is not Golden Age, unless he/she 
> made one recording and then died in a horrible accident. Nervous 
> breakdowns don't count..anybody can have one.
>
> It's also a ballet by Shostakovich.
>
> dl with tongue firmly in cheek
>
> Roger and Allison Kulp wrote:
> > This topic came up the other day on the Google Classical Recording 
> > list.The topic was "golden age pianism".The idea was that Emile Von 
> > Sauer,and his contempories were golden age pianism,and Van Cliburn and 
> > his contempories were not.Over the  years,I have heard the term "golden 
> > age" applied to virtually everything from early piano rolls to early 
> > stereo Lps.Is there a clear definition,or is  this all a bunch of BS ? If 
> > there is to be such a deliniation,why not borrow the golden/silver/bronze 
> > age classification from comic book collecting ?
> >                               Opening another can of worms,
> >                                       Roger