Guardian Unlimited | Arts Friday Review | Just Put Your Lips Together Maurizio Pollini and glenn gould Can t help singing along pianists Maurizio Classical pianists aren t supposed to do it, though glenn gould famously, http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/fridayreview/story/0,12102,966166,00.html
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Glenn Gould @ Filmbug glenn Herbert gould (September 25, 1932 October 4, 1982) was a Canadian pianistnoted glenn gould died in 1982 in Toronto after suffering a stroke. http://www.filmbug.com/db/343314
Extractions: Directory A-Z Glenn Herbert Gould (September 25, 1932 - October 4, 1982) was a Canadian pianist noted especially for his recordings of Johann Sebastian Bach and for giving up live performances in 1964. advertisement 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 1945 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 1947 and his first recital on CBC radio came in 1950. This was the beginning of a long association with the radio and with recording in general. On April 10 1964 Gould gave his last public performance in Los Angeles, California, to concentrate on his other interests, writing, recording, broadcasting and composing (although he produced few works as a composer).
Extractions: Advocate, The Air Force Journal of Logistics Air Force Law Review Air Force Speeches ... View all titles in this topic Hot New Articles by Topic Automotive Sports Top Articles Ever by Topic Automotive Sports The last puritan: Henry Sheen on why Glenn Gould still haunts other pianists 20 years after his death - Classical Music - Biography New Statesman Nov 18, 2002 by Henry Sheen Save a personal copy of this article and quickly find it again with Furl.net. It's free! Save it. In Thomas Bernhard's novel Der Untergeher (The Loser), the virtuoso pianist Wertheimer happens to walk past a room in the Salzburg Conservatorium where the young Canadian Glenn Gould is playing the aria from Bach's Goldberg Variations. The aria is simple, but he has never heard such reverential zeal. It is an "inhuman state" to which he can never aspire. He abandons his musical career, auctions off his piano and takes up the human sciences. Later, he kills himself. On his record-player in the room where he commits suicide is Gould's 1955 recording of the Variations. Glenn Gould died in October 1982. Twenty years on, he remains a spectre to aspirant pianists: revered by most, even the few who dislike his playing concede that Gould's interpretations are always fascinating and instructive. It is fortunate that he bequeathed such a large recording output, a result of his renunciation of the concert hall in 1964 and his subsequent devotion to the recording studio. "At live concerts," he said, "I feel demeaned, like a vaudevillian." He loathed the showpiece element of the concert hall: its artificiality, time constraints and the elevation of the individual above his craft a Romantic legacy as uninteresting to Gould as music that was not contrapuntal.
Extractions: He adored Arrowroot cookies, Barbra Streisand and animals. He abhorred sunlight, the stage and airplanes. Eccentric, genius, solitary, head-strong, hypochondriac, virtuoso all describe Glenn Herbert Gould, one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century. Gould was born on Sept. 25, 1932 in Toronto. His sudden death in 1982 at age 50 stunned the world, but his music and his legacy continue to inspire, delight and fascinate.
