Remembering Glenn Gould: Twenty Interviews with People Who Knew Him
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| Rating | : | 4.56 (743 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1495092135 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 208 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-08-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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Familiarity with the Gould biographical basics is helpful, but not essential: Meticulous footnotes keep newcomers in the loop. But the image of Gould as essentially self-taught made for a better story, comments Beckwith, who numbers among the pianist s more standoffish admirers. Rather than add to the hefty corpus of speculative commentary on Gould, Eatock has assembled a bracing collection of first-person reminiscences by people who actually knew Canada s most indestructibly famous classical musician. I confess to never having known that Gould wished to make Lorne Tulk, the CBC technician who helped him create the radio documentary The Idea of North, legally his brother. Pianist/broadcaster Stuart Hamilton and composer John Beckwith, both fellow students at what is now the Royal Conservatory in Toronto, concur that Gould inherited much from his teacher Alberto Guerrero, including the trad
Barbara Adler said My father would have loved it.. My father, Muisc Producer Andrew Kazdin, was one of the interviewees in this riveting book, but he died before the release. We were hearing about Mr Eatocks book around the time my father was interviewed for it. Glenn Goulds' story is fascinating because he was so gifted and so personally strange and mysterious that he seemed to always be the subject of comment and speculation. This book lets you hear from people WH. A gentle, focused, mellow compilation of memories Hopefully Helpful I did not think that anybody could write (let alone read) one more book about Glenn Gould that would actually have something meaningful to add. But I was wrong. I enjoyed reading the points of view and perspectives of people who knew him 30, 40, 50, 60 years ago. This book in no way competes with or replaces Kevin Bazzana's biography, which is the sine qua non. What I found is that it let me relive some of the bette. MR CHARLES POPE JR said enlightening and resonant. excellent and enlightening, and particularly resonant for me since I'm well acquainted with several of the people interviewed, and once interviewed Gould, myself.
His life and art have been thoroughly examined, analyzed, and interpreted, in many ways. The interviews conducted by Colin Eatock underscore this phenomenon, and through them he assesses Gould's rightful place in the bigger picture of Canada's cultural heritage.. Indeed, in the years since his sudden death, on October 4, 1982, he has been the subject of countless books, articles, documentaries, and other presentations. Among the remarkable attractions to Glenn Gould is that he holds an almost mythical status in the zeitgeist of Canadian arts and letters, somewhat like Tom Thomson and Grey Owl, and that he captures the imaginations of all who encounter his music and life story. (Amadeus). Three decades after Gould's passing at the age of 50, the world's fascination with this remarkable Canadian pi
His music has been performed and broadcast in Canada, the USA and the UK, and has been released on the Furiant, Echiquier and Toreador record labels. Before he became a freelance writer, he worked for ten years within the administration of Toronto's Canadian Opera Company, as an editor, publicist and fundraiser. A CD wholly devoted to his music, Colin Eatock: Chamber Music, is a 2012 release of the Canadian Music Centre's record label, Centrediscs. Colin Eatock is a compos