RHYME AND REASON

being the case, a recorded flub quickly loses its charm; it becomes an arbitrary annoyance and takes on a life of its own, like audience coughing. The incomparable Glenn Gould early recognized that recording technology can serve as a wart remover. He occasionally hit clunkers but refused to subject his listeners to them. When I listen to Bach, I need to hear Bach, not, as Bose writes, Glenn Gould "being human." Rupert Allen