FUSION Anomaly. Glenn Gould In the 1950s gould toured as a pianist and signed a recording contract with glenn gould, piano. 448 included in the copper 12 record internal link http://fusionanomaly.net/glenngould.html
Extractions: Art relies on relationships. Great artists redefine, test, and manipulate relationships; their work emphasizes the connections and interactions between artist, work, site, audience, and technology. These relationships were of critical importance to Glenn Gould, a master pianist, composer, and great thinker of the twentieth century. His theories attacked the traditional values and expectations of music performance. His views continue to shape music culture and his ideas about music and technology were ahead of their time. His views are easily translated to a visual or digital arts context, while retaining much of their inherent perceptiveness and significance. His insight to relationships in art is critically important for all artists, especially digital artists. Glenn Gould: Gentle Genius Not in Concert Similar sentiments have been seen in the visual arts movement. The Russian constructionist artists also attacked the institutional art world and its "bourgeois" galleries. It is interesting to note that they attacked the same type if institutionalism and hierarchical social structure as Gould, but for contrasting reasons. Gould believed art and music to be a spiritual transcendence, it was a to be enjoyed outside of the materialistic world. Constructionist thought that the work was part of the world, and should have a purposeful use. Although their reasons were different, their conclusions were the same, and both theories incorporated the idea that art is a not about a single experience or work, but it is a way of
A Glenn Gould Survey: The Music Through 1750 The Canadian glenn gould was, for a while, the James Dean of the piano. gould as pianist has achieved one of the most indelibly celebrated names in http://www.kunstderfuge.com/theory/stone/gouldsurvey.htm
Extractions: Search for other fugue Written and Reviews Request to have your own written Works published here By John Stone The Canadian Glenn Gould was, for a while, the James Dean of the piano. Smitten girls, drawn to his disheveled good looks and rebellious image, snapped up his groundbreaking 1955 LP recording of Bach's Goldberg Variations that featured a cover with 32 photos of the 23 year old prodigy, shown transported, ecstatic, dancing, conducting himself, singing, even playing the piano. By the release of a 1981 recording of the same work (which would turn out to be his last), Gould had inadvertently fostered another kind of image: brooding, bloated, staring at his listeners from an LP jacket with a magisterial and piercing gaze, he was now an eccentric genius, a freakish hypochondriac with as many idiosyncrasies as a piano has keys. But even he did not fathom the depths of his own popularity: his untimely death from a stroke in 1982 at the age of 50 was cause for a national and international outpouring of grief. The world had lost another icon. Gould's artistry was always appreciated in his time by fellow musicians, critics, and devotees of classical music. But this appreciation was also colored during his life by the sensation that surrounded his youth, the scandal that greeted his decision in 1964 to cease all concertizing, and the noisy chatter responding to his idiosyncrasies throughout the remaining years he devoted to studio recording. Two decades since his death, and the dross and drivel attached to his public and secluded life have mostly fallen away. What remains is a general critical consensus that Gould was one of the greatest pianists of the 20th Century.
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Extractions: Search for other fugue Written and Reviews Request to have your own written Works published here On the video 'An Art of the Fugue,' Glenn Gould Collection XV By John Stone About the 'Art of Fugue' you may also read: An enigma resolved: the Bach's Art of the Fugue by David Peat (on Hans-Eberhard Dentler) Introduction to the Art of Fugue by Timothy A. Smith On Bach's Art of the Fugue by John Stone Search for sheet music on the Art of Fugue The Bach's Art of Fugue in MIDI files When I first watched this hour-long video that alternates between discussion and performance of J.S. Bach's fugues, I was completely astonished by Gould's prodigious intellect, memory, and eloquence. Set entirely in a studio with Glenn Gould, his Steinway, and the video's director, Bruno Monsaingeon, An Art of the Fugue (1980) features fascinating discussions on counterpoint, Bach's career, as well as the technique, historical context and meaning of fugal composition. Gould speaks with phenomenal authority on the subjects at hand, and more extraordinarily, seems to have the entire Bach oeuvre at his disposal, and can demonstrate on the piano any composition Monsaingeon mentions in passing, and from any point within the work. In a number of deliciously strange moments, Gould will play for a while and then suddenly resume conversation, all the while continuing the complex fugue with his fingers. Later, I learned that everything down to the twists and turns of the conversation and the musical examples (no matter how off-the-cuff seeming) had been scripted and scrupulously carried out after a long rehearsal process. What appears as a quasi-documentary is indeed edited from numerous takes from multiple sessions. Gould literally force-feeds Monsaingeon his reactions, viewpoints, and musical references. What we have then is Gould using Monsaingeon as a prompt and fall guy for his own arguments on fugue and Bach.
Extractions: Toronto was the home of world-famous pianist Glenn Gould Toronto, Ontario - Take a stroll along the north side of St. Clair Avenue mid-way between Yonge St. and Avenue Rd., and you'll pass a brown art-deco-style building with leafy plants spilling over from its penthouse apartments. If you'd stood here in the 60 or 70's you might have gotten a real treat. The penthouse to the east was the home of worldf-famous pianist Glen Gould (1932-1982). A child prodigy, he made his debut as a soloist with the Toronto Symphony at the age of 14. Internationally famous before 30, he stopped preforming for the public in 1964, and continued as a composer, conductor, commentator -a grammy-awarding winning recording artist. A plaque on the front lawn marks the building. At the north-west corner of Avenue Rd. and St. Clair a small park has been dedicated to him. Gould is buried in nearby Mount Pleasent Cemetary. Public concerts are held at the CBC's Glen Gould Studio at 250 Front St. West. Photo by Lucy Izon. Keep Exploring with the Canada Cool Travel Map
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Sherbrooke Record: Glenn Gould Comes To Town gould On November 14, 1955, Canadian concert pianist glenn gould performed inSherbrooke. It was relatively early in his career, and the first time he had http://members.tripod.com/~Hughdoherty/gould.htm
Extractions: setAdGroup('67.18.104.18'); var cm_role = "live" var cm_host = "tripod.lycos.com" var cm_taxid = "/memberembedded" Search: Lycos Tripod Free Games Share This Page Report Abuse Edit your Site ... Next On November 14, 1955, Canadian concert pianist Glenn Gould performed in Sherbrooke. It was relatively early in his career, and the first time he had appeared in the city. He had not yet achieved his world-wide fame. Sherbrooke did not have a proper concert hall then; the auditorium of the St. Charles Seminary was used for such occasions. It was really like a university convocation hall long and narrow with a flat, wooden floor and a plain wooden stage. I recall that the acoustics of the place were quite good. I was assigned to review the concert for the Record. Here is what appeared in the paper the next day: By HUGH DOHERTY Glenn Gould, hunched on an ordinary chair over the keyboard of his grand piano, drew murmurs of comment from the first Sherbrooke Symphony Concert audience of the season at St. Charles Auditorium last night. The brilliant 23-year-old Toronto-born pianist presented a fantastic figure. Unkempt, sandy hair tossing wildly, he jerked rhythmically with the music of the orchestra. His long, thin arms dangled limply at his sides, almost touching the stage floor. When he launched into the opening bars of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4, he closed his eyes, tilted his head, and swayed low over the keys.
Glenn Gould And The Electronic Future of the electronic age, said idiosyncratic Canadian pianist glenn gould at the One can only wonder if the ghost of glenn gould, Jacob Marleylike, http://members.aol.com/basfawlty/gould.htm
Extractions: "O ne of the certain effects of the electronic age ," said idiosyncratic Canadian pianist Glenn Gould at the outset of a 1964 essay on Richard Strauss, " is that it will forever change the values that we attach to art. Not only is the day of the reel-to-reel master "white with splicing tape" And why stop there? Given the right software and a musical mind of his own, the Tokyo user can even interpolate into the Chicago product anything from a neglected sharp or flat to a new interpretation. Perhaps the Chicagoan eschews exposition repeats in sonata form, while the Tokyo user insists on them? Perhaps the Chicago artist's score is corrupted, while the Japanese gentleman has access to the latest scholarly "complete works" edition? Maybe an "allegro" suited to the Midwestern United States is too fast or too slow for tastes across the Pacific Ocean? With MIDI manipulation, the end-user can truly season a musical performance to his own taste. One can only wonder if the ghost of Glenn Gould, Jacob Marley-like, is rattling chains in protest at this turn of events! The non-traditional Gould But probably not. Gould, in fact, would perhaps have had more sympathy with non-traditional views than some, if only because his own were so iconoclastic. In Tim Page's anthology
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NPR : The Variations Of Glenn Gould with music critic Tim Page about the life and career of pianist glenn gould . glenn gould was just 22 and not well known outside his own country. http://www.npr.org/programs/wesat/features/2002/sept/gould/
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Denis Dutton Ecstasy Of Glenn Gould glenn gould at the piano by Jock Caroll. Copyright Angus Caroll. a strangething to say when the art of a pianist is so arresting as glenn goulds, http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~mwatts/glenn/dutton.html
Extractions: From Some Portraits of the Artist as a Young Man , by Jock Caroll. The Ecstasy of Glenn Gould by Denis Dutton Though the world of music and art has always been thought to thrive on novelty, history teaches us that it often rejects the imaginatively new simply because it is too new. Examples are limitless, but I have in mind something that interested me back in the late 1950s. It was then common to complain that virtually all of the younger generation of pianists (and not only pianists) were musically indistinguishable from one another. All very fine technically, so the story went, but what of spirit? They all played like machines, devoid of temperament, of individual personality. The acid test that revealed to my satisfaction the narrow mentality of my fellow 78 enthusiasts was Glenn Gould. Against mechanical technicians, here was a pianist whose interpretations were at once imaginative, coherent, and utterly unlike anything heard before. The young Gould was dismissed as an eccentric, though I had noticed that eccentricity was a virtue when heard in the recordings of the old de Pachmann. How I wished I had possessed the apparatus to add 78 clicks and surface noise to, say, Goulds Beethoven Opus 109 and present it as a lost Friedman or Godowsky recording. I could only imagine the reaction: No one can play Beethoven like that anymore! (This would have been a variation on Goulds concept of creative cheating, put to the task of rooting out a form of what he called the Van Meegeren syndrome.)
Writings And Works By And About Glenn Gould Chapter VGlenn gould Makes Music Glory and Plight of a Concert pianist; ThePsychology of gould s Piano Technique by Helen Mesaros, MD Noise of Time. http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~mwatts/glenn/articles.html
Extractions: Writings and Works, etc by and about Glenn Gould Photo scanned from Glenn Gould: Some Portraits of the Artist as a Young Man by Jock Caroll. About Glenn Gould the Man by Jessie G. Greig. Miss Greig was Gould's cousin and closest friend. The Ecstasy of Glenn Gould by Denis Dutton Leonard Bernstein's Intro to the live Brahms D Minor Concerto Op. 15 . Soloist and interpreter: Glenn Gould. Recorded April, 9, 1962. The Idea of Canada, was commissioned by CBC Radio Music, as part of a series of broadcasts commemorating the 60th anniversary of Glenn Gould's birth and the 10th anniversary of his death, in the fall of 1992. It was first broadcast on CBC Stereo on October 2nd and 4th, 1992. A Transcript of the Glenn Gould Sony chat session "Glenn Gould Keyboard Eccentric," an essay with photos in Keyboard Patchbay. "Gould, The Communicator." A panel discussion posted on the National Library of Canada's Glenn Gould Archive Site . Panel Members include R. Murray Schaffer, Margaret Pascu (who worked with GG on his Silver Jubilee LP ) John P.L. Roberts (a close friend of GG's who worked with him at the CBC), Vincent Tovell (who also worked with GG on many projects and directed a documentary
Glenn Gould glenn gould Filmography, Awards, Biography, Agent, Discussions, Photos, NewsArticles Canadian pianist known for his sometimes eccentric performances. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0332384/
Striking Gould In D.C. (washingtonpost.com) glenn gould is a pianist with rare gifts for the world. It must not long delayhearing and according him the honor and audience he deserves. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38883-2004Dec31.html
Extractions: var SA_Message="SACategory=" + thisNode; Hello Edit Profile Sign Out Sign In Register Now ... Subscribe to SEARCH: News Web var ie = document.getElementById?true:false; ie ? formSize=27 : formSize=24 ; document.write(''); Top 20 E-mailed Articles washingtonpost.com Print Edition Sunday Sections ... E-Mail This Article Top News Sunday Arts What is RSS? All RSS Feeds By Tim Page Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, January 2, 2005; Page N01 Fifty years ago this afternoon, a 22-year- old Canadian pianist named Glenn Gould walked out onto the stage of the Phillips Collection and played his first American recital. Gould, already famous in his native land for brilliance, originality and what some considered eccentricity, did not disappoint in Washington. Instead of the usual debut fare (some flashy Liszt or Rachmaninoff, perhaps, with one of the more popular Beethoven sonatas thrown in for gravitas), Gould opened his program with music by the obscure English renaissance composer Orlando Gibbons, then moved on to the even more obscure Dutch Renaissance composer Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck. True, he played a sonata by Beethoven (Op. 109) but also one by the Austrian modernist Alban Berg, as well as Anton Webern's eternally elusive "Variations" and a handful of pieces by Johann Sebastian Bach. Then as now, the capital area tended to empty out around the New Year, and it is doubtful that many people attended Gould's recital on the wet, warm second day of 1955. The world was its typical messy self that Sunday: Anybody who skimmed the front page of The Washington Post would have learned that the United States and the Soviet Union were even angrier than usual with each other; that the national death toll from holiday traffic accidents was expected to top that of the previous year, with more than 500 fatalities recorded since Christmas Eve; that a teenager from Bethesda, depressed by failing grades, had shot himself with the same rifle that had once won him trophies for marksmanship.
Glenn Gould: Musical Individualist Fortunately for our intellectual honesty, there was glenn gould. gould is bestknown as a concert pianist who renounced concertizing, as a puritanical http://www.saint-andre.com/thoughts/gould.html
Extractions: Fortunately for our intellectual honesty, there was Glenn Gould. Gould is best known as a concert pianist who renounced concertizing, as a puritanical purveyor of Bach who could not help humming along on his recordings, as a thinking man's musician. What is less well known is that Gould was also a profound and original thinker No one who has listened to Gould's recordings can deny that they are highly individual, even idiosyncratic. Yet does that make him necessarily an individualist? Of course not. Even his decision to stop giving concerts in favor of making recordings, while unprecedented, does not indicate his reasons for doing so. It is here that his writings are decisive, because Gould had good reasons for doing what he did and he set them out clearly in his many essays (collected by Tim Page into The Glenn Gould Reader On the night that Glenn Gould gave his final public concert (March 28, 1964 at Orchestra Hall in Chicago), neither the audience nor the performer knew that it was to be his last. The program was typical Gould and, as always, consisted of works he personally enjoyed playing (this time some fugues from Bach's Art of Fugue, a Bach partita, a late sonata by Beethoven, and the third sonata of Ernst Krenek). But if Gould had the independence of mind to play only what he liked and the professional status to get away with it, why did he renounce the stage? One way to explain it is by saying that Gould was not primarily a pianist, but a musician. Gould's concern was the music, and he thought strongly that the crowds who flock to the spectacle of a concert detract from the deeply personal experience of creating or listening to music. As aesthetician Geoffrey Payzant wrote in his reflections on Gould (
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Extractions: 1989 September Glenn Gould was one of the most famous and important musical personalities in Canadian history. When the task of writing an official biography of Gould was offered to Otto Friedrich, he was astonished to find a veritable gold mine of information at the National Library in Ottawa. There, in the Gould Collection, were thousands of items: letters, personal scribblings of daily activities, health records, program notes, drafts of interviews, and tape recordings. The joy of reading this book is in the exploration of Gould's creative genius and astonishing career as a performer. Glenn Gould always wanted to be a pianist. He had an uncommon skill for memorizing music, sight-reading, and transcribing any new music. He responded to music with an inner ear and interpreted it far beyond the traditional technical aspects of playing. As a child prodigy he readily mastered the piano with both technical brilliance and unique, sensitive interpretations of the music of the old masters. Gould's greatest triumph was the marvellous recording of the Bach-Goldberg Variations at the age of twenty-three. His future was assured and yet at age thirty-one he retired from public performance and went on to make dozens of studio recordings. Again, success was his. But in the end, his hypochondria, his addiction to prescription drugs, and his reclusive life-style contributed to an early death at the age fifty-one.
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Extractions: I suddenly realized that for many months running Ive been all tied up with newly issued CDs. Ive written about some of them. It has been an interesting and enriching experience, but one involving lots of intense hours of repeated listening, and it has kept me away from my pre-existing library. So tonight I did not grab something new from Pro Piano or JVC or Telarc, but something old from CBS Odyssey: Glenn Gould, Mozart: The Piano Sonatas
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Extractions: and also makes a surprise contribution of his own Introduction: Adagio Glenn Gould remains one of the legendary pianists of the twentieth century. His creative approach to the piano defied conventions and his retirement from concertizing was equally unconventional. But this public figure who was so private encased in winter clothes in summer weather who pierced to the essence of music and was an avowed ecstatic, remains a mystery. No mere chronicle of his life can grasp his nature. What is needed is a biography that takes the collected data (fortunately Gould was such a public figure that information is plentiful and further, he was such a pack-rat that mountains of personal material remain) and searches it deeply to find the key to Gould's inner being. Kevin Bazzana's new biography Wondrous Strange is just such a book. Bazzana takes us into the inner sanctum of Glenn Gould's Temple to Music: himself. In honor of Gould's mastery of counterpoint and because the subject is so vast, I have designed this essay as a Three Part Invention. Three aspects of Glenn Gould and of Kevin Bazzana's book. Click on the links below to take you to each part.
