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l mean my own personal philosophy
of interviewing--
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and l've done quite a bit of it
on the air as perhaps you know--
:10:06
is that the most illuminating
disclosures usually derive from areas...
:10:10
only indirectly related
to the interviewee's line of work.
:10:12
- For example?
- ln preparing radio documentaries...
:10:16
l've interviewed a theologian
about technology...
:10:19
a surveyor about William James...
:10:21
and a housewife about acquisitiveness
in the art market.
:10:24
But surely you've interviewed
musicians about music.
:10:26
Well yes l have on occasion but only
to put them at ease with the mike.
:10:31
But it's been far more instructive
to talk with Leopold Stokowski...
:10:35
about the prospect for interplanetary
travel which is l'm sure you'll agree--
:10:39
Let me ask this: ls there a subject
you'd particularly like to discuss?
:10:43
What about native rights in Alaska?
:10:46
Well l must confess l had a rather
more conventional line of attack...
:10:50
so to speak in mind Mr. Gould.
:10:52
As l'm sure you're aware the virtually
obligatory question about your career...
:10:57
is the controversy you created by giving
up live concert performance at age 3 2...
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and choosing to communicate
only through the media.
:11:02
l do feel we must at least
touch on it.
:11:04
As far as l'm concerned
it primarily...
:11:06
involves moral
rather than musical considerations.
:11:09
ln any case be my guest.
:11:11
Now you've been quoted as saying
that your involvement with recording--
:11:13
with media in general indeed
represents the future.
:11:16
- That's correct.
- And conversely the concert stage...
:11:19
the opera house or whatever
represent the past--
:11:22
an aspect of your own past
in particular perhaps...
:11:25
as well as in more general terms
music's past.
:11:27
That's true.
:11:28
l hope you'll forgive me for saying that
these ideas are only partly justified.
:11:32
Also l feel that you
Mr. Gould have forgone...
:11:35
the privilege that is rightfully yours
of communicating with an audience.
:11:40
From a power base?
:11:42
From a setting in which
the naked fact of your humanity...
:11:44
is unedited and unadorned.
:11:47
Couldn't l at least be allowed to
display the tuxedoed fallacy perhaps?
:11:51
Please Mr. Gould we shouldn't allow
this conversation to degenerate.
:11:53
l've tried to pose the question
in all candor and--
:11:57
Well then
l'll try and answer likewise.