21. Glenn Gould Interview Tim Page discusses the musical genius of pianist glenn gould as shown stage productions based on life and work of pianist glenn gould) http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0821404.html

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23. SonyMusicStore Glenn Gould Glenn Gould A State Of Wonder The glenn gould was a musical visionary who fired the public s imagination gould s 1955 recording of the Goldberg Variations was the pianist?s first album. http://www.sonymusicstore.com/store/catalog/MerchandiseDetails.jsp?merchId=8940&

24. MSN Encarta - Glenn Gould gould, glenn (19321982), Canadian pianist (see piano), composer, broadcaster,and essayist, known for his vigor and clarity in performing contrapuntal http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761582153/Glenn_Gould.html

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26. Audio - The Glenn Gould Archive A short speech made by glenn gould in St. John s, Newfoundland in 1968. (2 min,27 s) They represent the pianist at his most relaxed and unscripted. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/glenngould/m23-700-e.html

Audio Listen to archival audio tapes of: a speech made by Gould; home recordings; test tapes; and Gould's final piano recording sessions, featuring Brahms' Ballades and Rhapsodies Best heard with RealNetworks' RealAudio www.real.com/ version 3 or higher. Speaking Listen to a short speech made by Gould while he was in Newfoundland to record material for the "The Latecomers", the second installment of his "Solitude Trilogy." This tape highlights his philosophic and comedic nature. Tape 7283 A short speech made by Glenn Gould in St. John's, Newfoundland in 1968. (2 min, 27 s) At home These tapes were recorded by Gould in his home or cottage. They represent the pianist at his most relaxed and unscripted. Tape 7513 Richard Strauss' Burleske for Piano and Orchestra as played and sung by Glenn Gould (15 min, 23 s) Tape 7535 Johann Sebastian Bach's Sinfonias (15 min, 51 s) In the studio The following "test tapes" were made to assess pianos, studio or hall acoustics, microphone placement, etc. During these "sessions," Gould played excerpts from a wide variety of music in a very spontaneous fashion. Tape 1049 "Studio G test" [CBC Toronto], undated (22 min, 38 s)

27. Music Division Archival Guide -- GOULD, GLENN, 1932-1982 Born in Toronto, Ontario, glenn gould began his music studies at the age of three, and as a concert pianist in May 1946 in one of the conservatory s http://www.collectionscanada.ca/4/7/m15-353-e.html

Introduction General Information Regulations List of Abbreviations and Acronyms ... Name Index GOULD, GLENN, 1932-1982 MUS 109 Glenn Gould fonds. 1932-1982. - 8 m of textual records. - ca. 1,700 photographs. - 197 audio discs. - 1,573 audio tape reels. - 98 videocassettes. Biographical sketch Scope and content The fonds contains records pertaining to Glenn Gould's personal life and musical career. The many items in this documentary ensemble reveal Gould's musicological thought; they uncover his technological bias and exceptional performing qualities which earned him international recognition. The fonds contains, among other items, passports; personal and professional correspondence; awards and honours; compositions; published and unpublished writings by Gould; writings on Gould in newspapers and periodicals; collection of books and scores annotated by Gould; photographs of Glenn Gould, members of his family, and personalities in the music world; sound and video recordings of Glenn Gould, of interviews and of radio broadcasts. The fonds consists of the following series: MUS 109/A Writings; MUS 109/B Musical Works and Arrangements; MUS 109/C Programmes; MUS 109/D Sound and Video Recordings; MUS 109/E Publicity Records; MUS 109/F Honourary Distictions; MUS 109/G Correspondence; MUS 109/H Photographs; MUS 109/I Official Records; MUS 109/J Financial Records; MUS 109/K Medical Records; MUS 109/L Printed Material; MUS 109/M Memorabilia; MUS 109/N Miscellaneous.

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hostName = '.bookofjoe.com'; Search bookofjoe: bookofjoe Home May 03, 2005 'Glenn Gould Live'* On May 19 in Raleigh, North Carolina, Zenph Studios will present the Canadian pianist Glenn Gould , who died in 1982, playing Bach's "Goldberg Variations." "The company has created software that can reproduce every note from scratchy, decades–old recordings, exactly as they were originally made — replicating the original pedal, damper and key positions on an actual, albeit automated, piano," wrote Guy Gugliotta in yesterday's Washington Post. The technology was described by Mick Hamer last week in the April 22 New Scientist; that article appears below. Ivory Encore for Dead Piano Greats Next month music lovers in Raleigh, North Carolina, will be able to hear two of the greatest pianists of the 20th century in concert. Both the pianists, however, are long dead. Zenph Studios, a software company based in Raleigh, has found a way to take a music recording and convert it into a live concert played on real instruments. The concert will be a completely faithful rendition of the original pianists' work.

29. Glenn Gould gould, glenn, 1932–82, Canadian pianist and composer. A prodigy, he began studyat the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto at 12. http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/people/A0821404.html

Home U.S. People Word Wise ... Homework Center Fact Monster Favorites Hurricane Katrina Children as Authors Children Inventors The Doctor's In ... 2006 TFK Almanac Reference Desk Atlas Almanacs Dictionary Encyclopedia ... Encyclopedia Gould, Glenn Gould, Glenn, , Canadian pianist and composer. A prodigy, he began study at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto at 12. He was piano soloist with the Toronto Symphony at 14, and by the time he was 19 he was making concert tours in Canada, soon becoming known for idiosyncratic performance behavior. A great pianist, Gould was particularly noted for his interpretations of Bach and the romantics. As a composer, Gould was influenced by the postromantic music of the late 19th cent. His first published composition, a string quartet, had its premiere on television in 1956. During the 1960s Gould reduced his concert appearances to a minimum, preferring thereafter to concentrate on recording. See biographies by O. Friedrich (1989) and P. F. Ostwald (1997). The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, Page Tools: Cite Print See more Encyclopedia articles on: Music: History, Composers, and Performers: Biographies

30. The GlennGould Magazine Comes To Members Of The International rehearsal in which gould conducted the Hamilton Philarmonic and pianist Jon Includes complete text of The glenn gould Fonds of the National Library http://www.glenngould.ca/magazine/6.2.2000.html

The GlennGould Magazine comes to members of the international Friends of Glenn Gould society. For the Friends of the society who have missed issues, they can be purchased from the Friends webpage. Cover Photo: Catherine Widgery's statue Light Vibration , given as part of the 1999 Glenn Gould Prize (photo by Elaine Brodie). Fall 2000 Issue of the GlennGould Magazine Volume 6, Number 2 NOTE: Page sequence continues from Spring 2000 Issue (Vol. 6, No. 1) Glenn Gould Gathering, Day Three, Friday 24 September 1999, 12:15 p.m., Track 2, Take 2: "Encounters with Glenn Gould", Lunch Date with Don Hunstein (page 55) Summary of Hunstein's unscripted remarks on his personal and working relationship with Gould. (One photograph) Glenn Gould Gathering, Day Three, Friday 24 September 1999, 1:30 p.m., Track 3, Take 2: "Aspects of Glenn Gould: Glenn Gould and the Organ", Two Musics in Mind, by Christopher Dawes (pages 56-58) Summary of Dawes' one-act play dramatizing an imagined encounter between Gould and J. S. Bach, which had its world premiere at the Gathering. (Four photographs, two facsimiles from the National Library of Canada) Glenn Gould Gathering, Day Four, Saturday 25 September 1999, 9:10 a.m., track 1, Take 3: "Listening to Glenn Gould: Ludwig van Beethoven", with Kevin Bazzana in conversation with Shelagh Rogers (pages 59-63)

31. The GlennGould Magazine Comes To Members Of The International glenn gould interviewed by Eric McLean; A Piano Lesson with glenn gould A pianist s Hand The Implications of the Secret Diaries of glenn gould, by http://www.glenngould.ca/magazine/

The GlennGould Magazine comes to members of the international Friends of Glenn Gould society. For the Friends of the society who have missed issues, they can be purchased from the Friends webpage. Features from Fall 2004 Volume 10, Number 2 The Schoenberg Series: Scripts for a ten-part CBC radio series by Glenn Gould (continued...) Features from Spring 2004 Volume 10, Number 1 The Schoenberg Series: Scripts for a ten-part CBC radio series by Glenn Gould. John A. Miller and Malcolm Lester "Music for Millions"-Radio script by Glenn Gould "Gould, McLuhan, and the Fate of the Acoustic," by Richard Cavell "Remembering Niki," by David Goldbloom Features from Fall 2003 Volume 9, Number 2 Glenn Gould interviewed by Eric McLean "A Piano Lesson with Glenn Gould" "Music for Millions"-Radio script by Glenn Gould "-love letters to Dell-"-from the private papers of Glenn Gould A Merry Thought-A composition by Glenn Gould "The Wands of Youth" and "A Season on the Road"-Two unfinished articles by Glenn Gould Wondrous Strange: The Life and Art of Glenn Gould-Excerpt from a new biography by Kevin Bazzana Features from Spring 2003 Volume 9, Number 1

32. Canada's Walk Of Fame: Glenn Gould, Musician, Pianist As a young performer, glenn gould viewed all types of competition with Even though the Toronto, Ontarioborn pianist did not perform live for most of http://www.canadaswalkoffame.com/inductees/98_glenn_gould.xml

Rock the Walk Movies n' Music Festival Home Inductees ... View all inductees from 1998 At A Glance Born: September 25, 1932 Where: Toronto, ON Big Break: Gould's first public performance was in 1945 on the organ, a concert which was reviewed under the headline "Boy, age 12, Shows Genius As Organist." Notable Achievemets: "Concert Pianist, 1947-1964; String Quartet, Opus 1, composition, 1953-1955; Director of Music, Stratford Festival, 1961-1964; seven radio documentaries, 1966-1981; feature film musical arrangement, 1972, 1982. The greatest piano genius Canada has ever produced showed such remarkable talent at a young age at age three, Glenn Gould displayed absolute pitch and could read sheet music, and by age five was already working on his own compositions. Gould had only one music teacher up to the age of 10, and that was his mother, whose grandfather was a first cousin of Edvard Gried. He then began studies at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto. As a young performer, Glenn Gould viewed all types of competition with disdain, but he did win one event - the Piano Trophy at the Kiwanis Music Festival. Gould passed his associateship tests qualifying him as a certified professional at the tender age of 13.

33. WNYC - Music - WNYC Celebrates Glenn Gould The supremely gifted and wildly eccentric pianist glenn gould died 20 years agothis October 4. To mark the occasion, WNYC will present a special Fishko http://www.wnyc.org/music/articles/5130

Fed Funding Update Listen Online Now Windows The Brian Lehrer Show Windows The Brian Lehrer Show Audio Help Schedules Podcasting Search WNYC.org WNYC Celebrates Glenn Gould Sept 21.-Oct. 5 on 93.9 FM and AM 820 In observance of the 70th birthday of the legendary Canadian pianist Glenn Gould on September 25and the 20th anniversary of his death on October 4WNYC presents a special series of programs highlighting his unique legacy. Among the 20th century's most fascinating and eccentric pianists, Gould is best known for his mesmerizing performances of repertoire ranging from Bach to Schoenberg. What's more, he made a name for himself as a recording artist, radio and television producer, writer, and an outspoken apologist for the electronic media. WNYC explores these multiple roles as they contributed to his greater mystiqueone that influences countless artists to this day. Below is a complete summary for WNYC programming between September 21-October 5. Also, read more about the new 3-CD set featuring Gould's two vastly different depictions of Bach's Goldberg Variations (on Sony Classical, including outtakes, freshly commissioned liner notes, etc.). On The Media Airs Saturday, September 21 at 7AM at AM 820 and Sunday, September 22 at 10AM at 93.9FM

34. WNYC - Music - The Fishko Files The supremely gifted and wildly eccentric pianist glenn gould died 20 years agothis October 4. To mark the occasion, this special edition of the Fishko http://www.wnyc.org/music/articles/5525

Fed Funding Update Listen Online Now Windows The Brian Lehrer Show Windows The Brian Lehrer Show Audio Help Schedules Podcasting Search WNYC.org The Fishko Files 20 years After Glenn Gould The supremely gifted and wildly eccentric pianist Glenn Gould died 20 years ago this October 4. To mark the occasion, this special edition of the Fishko Files, "20 years After Glenn Gould," examines Bach as it is played on the modern piano, especially as it has or has not been influenced by Gould's style. Distinguished pianists Murray Perahia, Vladimir Feltsman, Angela Hewitt, Edward Aldwell, Maria Tipo and Sergei Schepkin are among the participants. The program traces the rise and fall and rise of Bach on the piano, from the years of Wanda Landowska and Rosalyn Tureck, through the Gould years to the present. Ample excerpts of performances by the pianists, as well as by Gould himself, will illustrate the commentary. Glenn Gould's arresting version of the Bach Goldberg Variations, first released in the mid-1950's, brought worldwide attention to both the pianist and the composition. More recordings and performances of Bach followed, in a style so distinctive as to have all but eclipsed other Bach players of his generation. Gould famously chose the recording studio over the concert stage early in his career, declaring, "the concert is dead." Known for his peculiar work habits (most notably his obsession with temperature in the studios) and a contrarian's approach to music in general (he dismissed many of Beethoven's greatest works while becoming fascinated by Petula Clark) Gould was one of the rare classical musicians to cross over into popular consciousness. But before the world knew about the oddities of his behavior, they knew about his Bach playing. It is his performance of the music of Bach and its effect that will be examined in 20 Years after Glenn Gould.

35. Treasures - Music glenn gould was a famous Canadian classical pianist who, by the age of 23, wasfilling concert halls with audiences eager to hear his interpretations of the http://www.nla.gov.au/worldtreasures/html/theme-music-7-gould.html

EXPLORATION MUSIC RELIGION Tune written when eight years old  1940 Courtesy of the Estate of Glenn Gould and the National Library of Canada National Library of Canada Ontario, Canada Glenn Gould 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.  Transcript of Siegfried Idyll II Courtesy of the Estate of Glenn Gould and the National Library of Canada 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

36. Denis Dutton On Glenn Gould From glenn gould Variations glenn gould by Himself and His Friends. a strangething to say when the art of a pianist is so arresting as glenn gould’s, http://www.aldaily.com/gould.htm

The Ecstasy of Glenn Gould From Glenn Gould Variations: Glenn Gould by Himself and His Friends . Toronto: Doubleday, 1983. Denis Dutton www.denisdutton.com T Now, as fate would have it, it falls to us to be nostalgic about the artistry of Glenn Gould, a phenomenon so compelling, so unlike anything else in music in our time, that it is impossible to imagine that he will be forgotten. In fact, I would hazard that if there is any twentieth-century performing musician who is still listened to five hundred years from now, it will be Glenn Gould. His recorded legacy is as close as I can conceive to being a permanent contribution to the history of musical art as any body of performance produced since the invention of the phonograph. inimitable and significantly unique Goldberg Variations Rhapsodies , Opus 79, are a case in point: those astonishing performances are unmistakably and indelibly the work of Glenn Gould, but never could I have guessed how he would interpret these pieces. Gould is in this respect so very unlike any of a dozen fine and famous virtuosos I could name. With the others I am certain I could, with fair probability, predict how their recordings of the Opus 79 Rhapsodies would sound.

37. The Glenn Gould Edition, Classical Notes, Peter Gutmann glenn gould s Mozart and Beethoven on Odyssey CDs. More than any other pianist,gould used the resources of the studio to craft performances that simply http://www.classicalnotes.net/reviews/gould.html

Mozart: Complete Piano Sonatas Volume 1: Odyssey MB2K 45612 (2 CDs) Volume 2: Odyssey MB2K 45613 (2 CDs) Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Volume 1: Odyssey MB3K 45821 (3 CDs) Volume 2: Odyssey MB3K 45822 (3 CDs) Glenn Gould, piano. This is not a review of Sony's new Glenn Gould Edition , although it started out to be. Rather, it is a tale of deceit and treachery, of promises broken and faith destroyed. The seeds of all crimes are sown in the past, and so here. In 1992, with the mammoth 100-volume Leonard Bernstein reissue under way, Sony turned for its next project to the second most popular past classical artist in the Columbia catalogue. Glenn Gould had electrified the world of classical music and catapulted to fame in 1955 at the age of 22 with his phonographic debut of Bach's Goldberg Variations (on ML-5060). In lieu of performing the work with traditional refined grace on the authentic harpsichord, Gould regarded it as "pregnant with promise and capacity for exhaustive exploitation," and proceeded to unleash his radical reconception on a piano using extreme tempos, huge dynamics and a phenomenal technique. Lest any listener doubt that the flamboyance was anchored in intellect, the album was accompanied by Gould's own baffling notes which explained, among other things, that "the fundamental variative ambition of this work is not to be found in organic fabrication but in a community of sentiment."

38. Glenn Gould - Weird And Wondrous, Classical Notes, Peter Gutmann The late Canadian pianist glenn gould was weird. Compared to his bizarre routines,the petulant attitudes and outrageous demands of spoiled rock and movie http://www.classicalnotes.net/columns/gould.html

A guide to some of the less conventional volumes of Sony's Glenn Gould Edition Please click here for a September 2002 update (new Glenn Gould Anniversary Edition of Bach!) The late Canadian pianist Glenn Gould was weird . Compared to his bizarre routines, the petulant attitudes and outrageous demands of spoiled rock and movie stars seem downright normal. But often it takes a spark of madness to kindle the fires of genius, especially in the arts. Gould left a fabulous legacy of brilliant and fascinating recordings. Just how weird was he? Consider this: He was a world-class hypochondriac. He feared drafts and cold, wearing heavy sweaters, scarves, gloves and overcoats even in the hottest weather. He was terrified of germs, refusing to go to a hospital to visit his dying mother. He was frightened by physical contact, canceling a dozen concerts and suing after a piano-tuner jostled him. He gobbled vast amounts of pills in lieu of food. He crouched below the keyboard, sitting 14 inches off the floor on a chair his father had built and which he insisted on using his entire life. He refused to have it reupholstered, and so after the original padding wore away it became a medieval torture device, with only a single narrow beam running down the middle of the seat from front to back, forcing his entire body weight onto his groin. When he played he seemed utterly oblivious to his surroundings, swaying soulfully and waving a free hand as if conducting himself, his mouth and face contorted in constant expressive motion. His mother (and first teacher) was a vocal coach who had him sing notes as he played them, a habit he never lost and which remains all too apparent throughout his records. He studied music with loud random noise (such as several blaring radios or TVs).

39. Greg Sandow -- Glenn Gould's Two Goldbergs Sony has reissued glenn gould s two recordings of the Goldberg Variations andthey re after the release of his second one was a unique pianist. http://www.gregsandow.com/gould.htm

In some ways, this is a marketing story. The classical record business is in trouble. But big classical labels have huge catalogs, full of fine old recordings by classical music's biggest names. These can be reissued, over and over again, in new packaging, essentially at no cost. And now Sony Classical, one of the biggest classical record companies, has a new way to do this. It shares a corporate owner with an operation called Legacy, which repackages with striking graphics, careful research and even more careful attention to sound milestone recordings from Sony's pop and jazz labels. So someone got a really good idea. Why shouldn't Legacy also mastermind some classical reissues, using its pop marketing clout to sell them to a new audience? That led to a wonderful project, the Legacy/Sony Classical reissue of one of the most famous classical records ever made, Glenn Gould 's 1955 performance of Bach's "Goldberg Variations," radiant with an impossible combination of innocence and perfect certainty. Not, of course, that this recording hasn't always been available. But now it's packaged with one of the only "Goldberg" performances worth comparing it to a second, stubbornly mature recording of the piece that Gould made in 1981. And as an informative bonus we get a third CD, offering outtakes from the 1955 original, along with 50 minutes of Gould in conversation, telling us (among other things) why that first performance wasn't very good. Sony prices this set at just $19.99, and many stores sell it for less, giving us three impressive CDs for the price of only one.

40. P-ART Journal / 75: Glenn GOULD's Piano Chair The famous overused chair on which the excentric pianist glenn gould kept allhis remarkable BACH recordings at New York. http://users.skynet.be/P-ART/PARADISE/JOURNAL/JOURNL75/journ75.htm

SITE MAP TOUCH-AND-GO: 5 Minutes Tour HOT PAGE HOT LINKS ... BACK TO P-ART MAIN PAGE P-ART JOURNAL Glenn GOULD's PIANO CHAIR The famous 'overused' chair on which the excentric pianist Glenn Gould kept all his remarkable BACH recordings at New York. When do I produce a fine performance or composition on my piano chair? When I haven't touched the piano keys for days or holidays, pregnant by new expression. I don't need a high skill training of my piano fingers (Fingerfertigkeit) but just like Glenn Gould: after a time of incubation and mental conceptualization of the music that you'll play. Gould: " The best scores to play at the piano aren't the nineteenth Beethoven, Ravel or Rachmaninov, but just the scores from the sixteenth century at the virginal!" back to top Go to NEXT item: back to the P-ART JOURNAL index back to the P-ART PARADISE-index

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