Scout Report Archives The National Library of Canada hosts this collection of materials related tothe eccentric, but brilliant Torontoborn concert pianist glenn gould. http://scout.wisc.edu/Archives/SPT--BrowseResources.php?ParentId=20285
Long, Pretentious Play About Glenn Gould By IAN NATHANSON Ottawa Sun. Legendary Canadian pianist glenn gould loved totalk, but the play based on his life has very little action to show for it. http://www.canoe.ca/TheatreReviewsA/32shortfilms.html
Extractions: Inside CANOE.CA SLAM! Sports Jam! Showbiz CANOE Travel CNEWS CANOE Money C-Health LIFEWISE AUTONET flirt.canoe.ca Newsstand WHAM! gaming AllPop Search eBay.ca Find Old Friends Free E-Mail shop.canoe.ca CareerConnection Classified Extra Obituaries Today Restaurants Hotels Weather Horoscopes Lotteries Crossword Scoreboard News Ticker Sports Ticker TV Listings Movie Listings CLIVE Concerts Mutual Funds Stocks Feedback Index Saturday, 1 May, 1999 More Showbiz headlines By IAN NATHANSON Ottawa Sun Legendary Canadian pianist Glenn Gould loved to talk, but the play based on his life has very little action to show for it.
Glenn Gould (Main Page) The Canadian pianist glenn gould was a child prodigy and a musical genius whose1955 recording of Bach s Goldberg Variations catapulted him to world fame. http://www.wwnorton.com/catalog/fall98/glenngould.htm
Extractions: The Canadian pianist Glenn Gould was a child prodigy and a musical genius whose 1955 recording of Bach's "Goldberg Variations" catapulted him to world fame. He was also plagued by lifelong depression, was terrified of playing before live audiences, and consumed prescription drugs by the handful. He died at fifty of a massive stroke. Peter F. Ostwald published several biographies of performing artists, including Schumann: The Inner Voices of a Musical Genius and Vaslav Nijinski: A Leap into Madness . He died, shortly after completing this book, in 1996. 1998 / paperback / ISBN 0-393-31847-8 / 6" x 8" / 368 pages / Music/Biography
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Extractions: AUSTRALIA Australia's online independent specialist music review journal Email your comments to OZartsreview Concerts CD's Theatre Dance ... Features Glenn (David Young) Effie Crump Theatre Few doors open on a single hinge so it is certainly an oversimplification to suggest, as many do, that the sole reason for Canadian pianist Glenn Gould's decision to stop performing in public was his increasing conviction that many of those who attended his recitals were there primarily to look at him rather than to listen to him. There's a fair case for suggesting a similar motive on the part of many who attend recitals given by pianist David Helfgott (whose life was portrayed in the movie Shine). The great virtue of David Young's play Glenn is that it doesn't focus exclusively on this hangup but comprehensively canvases the full range of Gould's neuroses and oddities (his hypochondria, his horror of being touched by anyone are two of many ) of which his withdrawal from the concert platform was only one. But was turning his back on the recital hall such a silly move? Was this merely childish or eccentric petulance? Or was it a carefully thought out career move to enable him to function more effectively as a pianist.
Wondrous Strange: The Life And Art Of Glenn Gould his career with meticulous analyses of glenn goulds musical the articles that haveappeared on gould, much of the environment in which the young pianist grew up http://www.biography-reviews.com/Wondrous_Strange_The_Life_and_Art_of_Glenn_Goul
Extractions: Bazzana has spent some two decades studying his elusive subject. Given free rein to explore Goulds papers and granted interviews by any number of the artists friends and colleagues who were once reluctant to speak, the author is able to shed light on many questions that have piqued the interest of Gould fans. We are privy to much of his family history (the original family name was Gold), and the health problems that plagued him. Precocious? Yes, indeed. Readers learn that at the estimable age of 3 his talents were obvious. Perfect pitch was but one of them. As a child he was publicly performing on both piano and organ. His musical education was completed in Canada, and although known throughout Canada he did not make his American debut until 1955. His programs were unorthodox and his behavior on stage often very odd. To say Gould was an iconoclast is an understatement, but such a talented one. He was also an industrious writer, and later in life began conducting.
Commentary Magazine - Glenn Gould's Dissent ..Of the current generation, glenn gould has been without doubt the most interestinginevery meaning of that valuable word-pianist the public has heard http://www.commentarymagazine.com/Summaries/V68I5P74-1.htm
Extractions: var AID="06805074_1"; FROM the standpoint of originality and imagination, musical performance today is a pretty dull affair. Influenced by the widespread diffusion of music and the easy SAMUEL LIPMAN, a concert... ...How has he managed this victory so completely on his own terms... ...Perhaps too little attention has been paid to the way in which Gould's characteristic orientation to performance tradition has been shaped by the fact that he is a Canadian... ...by contrast, the Schoenberg performance seems gray and stale... ...One document in particular fittingly preserves the last time he appeared with an orchestra in New York City, which was also one of the most significant performances of his entire career: his play, ing of the Brahms D-minor Concerto with Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic... ...Yet fortunately more survives than the memory of concertgoers to make clear just what Gould was as a live rather than a record performer... ...It was precisely the provincialism-so amply documented in Payzant's book-of the world in which Gould grew up which allowed him not only the freedom to develop in his own way but also the ability to retain a primitive and childlike faith in his own rightness vis-a-vis his contemporaries... ...All the notes seem distinct and yet connected by phrasing and pulse, the result of the pianist's emphasis upon perfect articulation and a legato produced by the fingers rather than the damper pedal...
Treasures - Music glenn gould was a famous Canadian classical pianist who, by the age of 23, was fillingconcert halls with audiences eager to hear his interpretations of the http://www.nla.gov.au/worldtreasures/html/theme-music-7-gould.html
Extractions: Glenn Gould was a famous Canadian classical pianist who, by the age of 23, was filling concert halls with audiences eager to hear his interpretations of the works of composers such as Bach, Beethoven and Schoenberg. He received international acclaim performing in Europe, and was the first pianist from North America to perform in the Soviet Union. Gould's interest in music was highly developed at an early age, as is shown by this manuscript, written when he was eight years old. Gould's transcription of Wagner's Siegfried Idyll for piano continued a nineteenth-century tradition which took advantage of the ready availability of pianos to bring versions of orchestral works to a wider audience. His transcription gives us insight into his processes of thinking about the piano. Richard Wagner wrote the
DOc DVD Review: The Glenn Gould Collection (1998/2002/1994) Canadian pianist glenn gould (19321982) was, if not one of the foremost pianistsand interpreters of Bach in the world, certainly one of the most widely known http://www.digitallyobsessed.com/showreview.php3?ID=5037
David Teague Interviews David Teague About Glenn Gould dt Although I realize the brunt of this conversation will be, for the benefitof our readers, on Canadian pianist glenn gould and how he relates to the http://www.ibiblio.org/extimacy/interview/david/1.html
Extractions: The following is a transcript of an interview that took place on February 6, 1996. dt: Although I realize the brunt of this conversation will be, for the benefit of our readers, on Canadian pianist Glenn Gould and how he relates to the concept of the interview, I'm really curious about your own ideas on this topic. Where do you see yourself as fitting in? DT: Well, I'd rather begin with what Gould had to say. Maybe as we explore his ideas, I'll pop in every now and then with my own editorial comments. dt: Fair enough. Well, to begin, tell me why you think someone like Gould, a pianist and composer whose work seems to fall pretty far from the subject we're discussing, could have anything to say about interviewing. DT: There was a lot more to Gould than just his musical recordings. The fact that he was quite a prolific writer of essays and stories, and the fact that many of them stretched thematically beyond classical music, shows, I think, that he was as great a writer as he was a pianist. What interests
Philadelphia Inquirer 01/05/2003 Glenn Gould Legend Lives On That s about the only explanation for why pianist glenn gould, a decade after hisdeath, is in the classical recording industry s top 10 again and not with http://www.artsjournal.com/music/redir/20030105-14458.html
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Extractions: Rather than telling the "story" of Glenn Gould, this film seeks to give his essence, his art, in the way that Bach gave the essence of his feelings through his music. After seeing the entire film, the viewer comes away with a much better understanding of Gould, his personaltiy, and his art, even... more info Customer Rating: I would rate most of Glenn Gould's performences 5 stars, but in these three DVD's you see the most are so many commentators talking Russian and French with a voice of English translator. Most of their comments about Glenn Gould are all well known for Gould's fans already. I felt very annoying and... more info Customer Rating: This is a rather long DVD with a running time of 157 min. Roughly we have 1/3 of the time with Gould on the piano and the rest are just chats/talks. Whether the chats are interesting depend on how we look at them. On this occasion, Gould is more polite and more pleasing in the sense that he was more...
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Extractions: It is no doubt that Glenn Gould is at his best as a pianist, while he is also known as a writer, TV and radio producer, composer, conductor and maybe philosopher. So the author, Kevin Bazzana focuses on Gould as a pianist and his performances in this book. This book is divided into two parts. In the first part, Premisses, Bazzana examines Gould's approach towards music and performance as an artist. An example here is his argument on why Gould published the complete sonatas by Mozart but not those by Haydn despite the known fact that Gould appreciated Haydn's music much more than Mozart's. In the second part, Practices, he analyses Gould's performance in depth. He rationalizes why Gould chose to play a particular piece in a specific manner. For example, Bazzana points out Gould's usage of a peculiar arpeggio, which he calls "bordered" arpeggio, in certain pieces, and explains what effects it gives to the entire piece. I had noticed that Gould often arpeggiates instead of playing a chord as written, but did not realize how it is integrated into the structure of the music. This book enlightened me in many ways and helped me enjoy/appreciate Gould's music even more.
Extractions: Canadian artists continue to interpret our greatest interpreter IT'S EIGHTEEN YEARS AND COUNTING SINCE GLENN GOULD DIED, AT THE AGE OF FIFTY, FROM A STROKE THAT HALTED FOREVER THE PROCESSES OF ONE OF THE MOST REMARKABLE of Canadian minds. There are those who say that he is overrated on some counts that he made some bad Beethoven recordings, and so on. But no one listening to his Bach recordings could disagree that Gould had a most unusually acute ability to comprehend and interpret musical structures with a rare brilliance and clarity. His was a mind and a life that, coming when they did in Canadian history, expanded the possibilities for the arts in Canada. They have also intrigued and inspired others, both directly and indirectly, since the time of his early, shatteringly brilliant, recordings. Artists in a variety of disciplines have tried to get to the bottom of his particular talent. How did this Toronto boy turn out to be the one-of-a-kind genius the word is not too strong whose recordings were chosen by NASA to be sent into space to demonstrate the calibre of human sophistication to alien life forms?
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Extractions: Gould had a tremendous passion for music - evident in his playing, his writings, in broadcasting, composing, conducting, and experiments with technology. At the early age of three it became clear that he possessed exceptional musical aptitude, including absolute pitch and even the ability to read staff notation. Since 1955, over 60 albums have been released, including 8 Collected Volumes of his work. SONG CLIPS: Bach: Aria from Goldberg Variations - 1981
Sony Classical - Music Such is the praise that greeted glenn gould, the distinguished Canadianpianist, throughout his long and storied career. These 12 http://www.sonyclassical.com/music/64226/main.html
Extractions: Alfred Frankenstein in High Fidelity Magazine wrote, "The foremost pianist this continent has produced in recent decades," and Jay Harrison of the New York Herald Tribune said, "A pianist of divine guidance." "He plays Bach," wrote the distinguished critic Professor Heinrich Neuhaus, "as if he were one of the pupils of the Thomasaskirke cantor, sharing his meals with him in the refectory and blowing the organ when his teacher played for his parishioners... The music seems to speak through his playing; the composer has been dead long since but his music is alive today and it will live long..."
Glenn Gould The Art of the Fugue Original Jacket Collection The Art of the Fugue ; video footage of Glenn Gould playing selections from The Art of the Fugue , including a performance on the "harpsipiano", from the Glenn Gould Collection Videos (SHV 48412, 48425, 48426); complete "follow along" musical score to Contrapunctus 1 and excerpts from Nos.2-9, showing Bach's manipulation of his thematic materials; complete liner notes from the original LPs; a biography of Bach, notes on the recording; original label copy and other memorabilia; complete Sony Classical Glenn Gould Edition Discography; web browser connects to Sony Classical home page.
Glenn Gould - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia glenn Herbert gould (September 25, 1932 October 4, 1982) was a celebrated Canadianpianist, noted especially for his recordings of Johann Sebastian Bach. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Gould
Extractions: edit Gould was born in Toronto Ontario . After being taught piano by his mother, whose grandfather was a cousin of Edvard Grieg , Gould attended the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto from the age of ten. There he studied piano with Alberto Guerrero organ with Frederick C. Silvester and theory with Leo Smith. In he gave his first public performance (at the organ) and the following year made his first appearance with an orchestra (the Toronto Symphony Orchestra ) in a performance of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4 . His first public recital followed in and his first recital on CBC radio came in . This was the beginning of a long association with the radio and with recording in general. In , Gould made a concert trip to the Soviet Union . He was the first North American to play there after the Second World War On April 10 Gould gave his last public performance in Los Angeles, California