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2009-08-29 : personal
At my funeral/wake/afterlife party, I would like the following songs played, for reasons that only I will ever know.
Apologies in advance to all of the attendants.
Find Casey, or somebody else smart, in order to figure out how to best arrange these. I lack the talent. I think New Way Home should probably be the penultimate song, but I’m not confident. I’m also pretty sure Take a Bow should be the opener. But it might also work well as a transition piece. As I say, not my bailiwick. I’ve never succeeded in finishing a mix tape, and obviously this list is too long to actually make a tape.
Please close with Aria Da Capo E Fine from the Goldberg Variations, as performed in 1981, not 1955. Make sure it’s loud enough that everybody can hear him humming along, or it doesn’t count.
Coincidentally, a friend of mine today gave me a copy of Gould’s recordings of the Goldberg Variations—both recordings. I take it the ’81 performance is better?
— Jay Goodman Tamboli 30 August 2009 #
I don’t have a bunch of these. Any chance you could zip up mp3s and send them to me? I like to collect mixtapes by friends.
— Casey 30 August 2009 #
The style of the two albums is incredibly different. It’s actually worth listening to the interview he did on the topic; he talks for about 45 minutes on the difference between them. In short, the first interpretation was playful, fast, light, and showed the “mistakes of youth” or something like that. The later recording is much more slow, contemplative, and features his (by then trademark) humming along as he plays. It remains the canonical performance of the Goldberg Variations for me, and is without equal.
— Aaron N. Tubbs 31 August 2009 #