Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Glenn Gould a Celebration of Musical Eccentricity

Glenn Gould
Cover of Glenn Gould
We should have been celebrating his 80th birthday this year, but instead we're marking the 30th anniversary of Glenn Gould's untimely death, in 1982, at 50 years of age.
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a short portrait of Glenn Gould:Glenn Gould: Beyond Bachs Goldberg Variations
100% Glenn Gould would have turned 80 years old on Sept. Glenn Gould would have turned 80 years old on Sept. 25, 2012, would have marked the 80th birthday of Glenn Gould, and Oct. 4 is the 30th anniversary of his death. One can only wonder what Gould might have done had he lived a full life – he had many plans and spoke of them with customary enthusiasm – but I have no doubt that he would have loved the internet above all. Can you imagine an unfettered Gould finally able to remove the middlemen and record whatever he wanted, as often as he wanted to, and immediately share the results with his audience? But there is more to Gould than the "Gouldbergs" – indeed, more to him than Bach – and this seems a logical time to explore some of his other great recordings.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/deceptivecadence/2012/09/25/160957849/glenn-gould-beyond-bachs-goldberg-variations?ft=1&f=10003
Glenn Gould still fascinates three decades after his death
100% Even those who consider themselves well acquainted with the celebrated pianists work and story will probably encounter revelations in Remembering Glenn Gould. Glenn Gould was a world class pianist, that is well known. For Carleton University professor and Gould scholar Paul Théberge, it was Gould’s talent as a recording innovator that is perhaps his most important legacy. 25, and in honour, Sony Classical is releasing a raft of Gould recordings, including one that offers a look and listen inside Gould’s vision for recording. In other Gould birthday news, a major conference is being held at the University of Toronto on the weekend. Théberge’s disc is called Glenn Gould The Acoustic Orchestrations, and it will be formally available to the public on Oct. 2.
http://www.vancouversun.com/entertainment/music/Glenn+Gould+still+fascinates+three+decades+after/7292257/story.html
Glenn Gould
100% Glenn Gould was one of the best known pianists of the last century.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_7534000/7534787.stm
Celebration of Glenn Gould's 80th birthday a sprawling, joyous, frustrating affair
100% There was something very earnestly Toronto about the Glenn Gould Birthday BACHanalia the Royal Conservatory of Music threw at Koerner Hall on Monday night: It was a big, musical stewpot that mixed styles and crossed borders in a way that was both edifying and frustrating. Its relationship to the very different geniuses of German Baroque composer Johann Sebastian Bach and 20th century Canadian pianist Glenn Gould was tenuous, yet there was a clear common thread in the program. There were even some Glenn Gould Professional Students and teachers thrown into the mix to tie the evening to Gould’s alma mater. Despite this, the evening felt long – so much so that the audience decided it was time to leave before Gould’s own performance of Bach InventionsandSinfonias via a sophisticated digital playback system set up on one of the hall’s grand pianos. It was almost as if Gould and Bach had become an afterthought by the time the concert ended, which is a strange way to send the legend of the world’s most famous Canadian off into his ninth decade.
http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/music/article/1261741--celebration-of-glenn-gould-s-80th-birthday-a-sprawling-joyous-frustrating-affair
Fans celebrate Glenn Gould anniversary worldwide
100% CBC Music: What if Glenn Gould had lived to be 80? Classical enthusiasts the world over are celebrating the life, music and genius of Canadian legend Glenn Gould on the 80th anniversary of his birth. His personality is so incredibly strong and everything that [he produced]," famed pianist Lang Lang, who is taking part in the Gould celebrations, told CBC News. The Chinese star pianist stopped in Ottawa where he got a chance to play Gould's early piano – a Steinway CD 318 – at the National Arts Centre. Lang Lang was also among a host of cultural figures who took part in a creative summit in Toronto over the weekend that presented new work and collaborations inspired by Gould. Glenn Gould celebrations are taking place around the globe.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/story/2012/09/24/glenn-gould-anniversary-celebrations.html?cmp=rss
Glenn Gould at Eighty
100% Today would have been Glenn Goulds eightieth birthday. That perspective had a historical authority: the Bach renaissance started in the mid-nineteenth century, with Mendelssohn, and, by the time that Gould came along, the playing of Bach came through the filter of romanticism. Gould gave the impression of cleaning up Bach, of removing a century of distorting varnish and returning the music to its rigorous intellectual roots. At the same time, Goulds performance catapulted the composition itself into a newfound prominence, one from which it hasnt retreated. But Goulds devotion to Bach also turns his performances into something of a distorting mirror. Goulds love for Bach was formative and energizing but not always liberating (a terrifying romantic allegory).
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/movies/2012/09/glenn-gould-at-eighty.html
Our Earbud Solitude Isnt the High-Tech Serenity Glenn Gould Predicted
100% To listeners of classical music, Gould was an iconoclastic pianist, most famous for the interpretations of Bach that, in his day, stirred controversy for their relative strangeness. To everyone else, Gould was a broadcaster and essayist. Gould thought often about the relationship between art and life. I am the co-Director/Producer of Dreamers, Renegades, Visionaries: the Glenn Gould Variations, of which you make mention. Can you imagine an email saying "Glenn Gould wants to be your friend on Facebook"? I think not.Dreamers, Renegades, Visionaries: the Glenn Gould Variations was meant to celebrate the legacy of Gould.
http://blogs.sfweekly.com/shookdown/2012/09/glenn_gould_thirty_years_birth_earbud_solitude.php
Glenn Gould's legacy earns broad tribute on 80 th birthday
100% The first time filmmaker Norman Jewison saw Glenn Gould play the piano, they were both little kids. Gould, who was probably about 7 at the time, was to play God Save the King at an event at Williamson Road Junior Public School. There are two full days of events at the University of Torontos Convocation Hall with an eclectic list of speakers from Jewison and 13-year-old pianist Anastasia Rizikov to world-famous pianist Lang Lang, who will play on Goulds refurbished piano. The conference is titled Dreamers Renegades Visionaries: The Glenn Gould Variations, for the renowned musician who died in 1982 at age 50. David Daniels, executive producer, explains the wild roster of speakers is an attempt to reach out beyond the small group of Glenn Gould classical music fanatics. The need to write daily (she is working on two plays and a novel) is an organic urge in me, she says a compulsion she likely shared with Gould.
http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/music/article/1259108--glenn-gould-s-legacy-earns-broad-tribute-on-80-th-birthday
Glenn Gould: a wilfully idiotic genius?
100% It's 30 years since the death of Glenn Gould, but the pianist still provokes strong reactions. Glenn Gould, hunched over his piano in characteristic form, during the recording of his 1955 reading of the Goldberg Variations. It's no surprise that this record launched the myth of Gould as much as it signalled the start of his career, but no one could have predicted the effect this young Canadian pianist would have on music. Lauded the world over – his tour to Russia in 1957 is still remembered fondly by Vladimir Ashkenazy and by everyone else who packed out the concert halls to hear him – Gould none the less seemed to steadily retreat from public view. In what would have been his 80th year, we asked leading pianists what Gould means to them. Glenn Gould was an unavoidable presence when I was growing up in Ottowa.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/sep/20/glenn-gould-wilfully-idiotic-genius
The meaning of Glenn Gould
100% If Glenn Gould were alive today, he would be celebrating his 80th birthday, posting to his blog, releasing another podcast and figuring out how to license downloads of his recordings. Pianist Jan Lisiecki plays Glen Gould's CD 318 piano at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, June 20, 2012. The multifaceted Gould is a kind of Rorschach test for Canadians. Gonzales is one of many participants at a gathering this weekend at the University of Toronto that marks the 80th anniversary of Gould’s birth. It is the forward-looking Gould who is mainly on display at the event – entitled Dreamers, Renegades, Visionaries: the Glenn Gould Variations – which is infused with the belief that Gould not only predicted but would also heartily endorse our interactive culture of downloading, sampling and remixing. “Glenn now could spend the morning working on a piece, record it in the afternoon, and send it out to his admirers in the evening.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/music/the-meaning-of-glenn-gould/article4559535/?cmpid=rss1
Experience the genius of Glenn Gould
100% We should have been celebrating his eightieth birthday this year, but instead we’re marking the thirtieth anniversary of Glen Gould's untimely death, in 1982, at 50 years of age. Pianist Glenn Gould was Canada's greatest gift to the world of classical music. We should have been celebrating his 80th birthday this year, but instead we're marking the 30th anniversary of Glenn Gould's untimely death, in 1982, at 50 years of age. I spoke to Glenn in 1958 and said that if he did the Brahms First Piano Concerto it would be so great. "Glenn agreed to visit a veterans' hospital during his stay," Feldbrill continued. Don Andersonisoffering a five week music appreciation course on Gould beginning next week.
http://www.cbc.ca/manitoba/scene/music/2012/09/25/glenn-gould/
Winnipeg Symphony releases disc with Glenn Gould
100% She played viola in the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra for the 1959 performance of Brahms's Piano Concerto No. 1, with Glenn Gould as soloist. He had already had a long musical relationship with Gould, performing with him on a number of occasions. Feldbrill wanted Gould to open the 1959 WSO season and invited him to play the Brahms. The work wasn't in Gould's repertoire, but the pianist jumped at the chance anyway. I felt very strongly that Glenn and I really meshed in how we felt about the music and there were actually no problems. Listen to Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor (excerpt) on CBC Music with Glenn Gould and the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Victor Feldbrill .
http://www.cbc.ca/manitoba/scene/music/2012/09/19/winnipeg-symphony-orchestra-releases-disc-with-glenn-gould/?cmp=rss
Glenn Gould Foundation Calls for Nominations for Tenth Glenn Gould Prize
100% Glenn Gould Foundation Calls for Nominations for Tenth Glenn Gould Prize - Yahoo! 25, 2012 /PRNewswire/ - Today, as the 80th anniversary of Glenn Goulds birthday is celebrated around the globe, the Glenn Gould Foundation invites the public to nominate individuals who have demonstrated a lifetime of extraordinary creative achievement and innovation for the Tenth Glenn Gould Prize. The Glenn Gould Foundation honours Glenn Goulds spirit and legacy by celebrating brilliance, promoting creativity and transforming lives through the power of music and the arts with the Foundations signature activities, including The Glenn Gould Prize.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/glenn-gould-foundation-calls-nominations-111500605.html
A bona-fide Gould-inspired app
100% Inspired by Glenn Gould’s fantasy of a kit of recorded elements that would allow the listener to become a composer, the Piano Invention app allows the user to create their own compositions using pre-recorded chords, notes and short motifs from famous classical compositions. Pianist Jan Lisiecki plays Glen Gould's CD 318 piano at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, June 20, 2012. Today’s digital culture fulfills Gould’s prediction; but to date, sampling is usually limited to popular music. “The second I saw it, I said ‘This is what Gould was talking about,’ ” Elder says of the software. Of course, Gould disliked the Romantic composers and, notoriously, would not play Chopin: Elder stresses that the technology is inspired by Gould but does not feature his recordings nor music he would necessarily have liked. “I think Gould was saying we need to bring improvisation and creation back into music-making,” Elder says.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/music/a-bona-fide-gould-inspired-app/article4561454/
The Toronto Globe and Mail 09/22/12
100% "The multifaceted Gould is a kind of Rorschach test for Canadians.
http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2012/09/what_does_glenn.shtml
Just Another Day In 1955, When Glenn Gould Was Changing Everything
100% Outtakes from these sessions ... suggest that in 1955 he used the studio in the opposite way: to maximize risk-taking, to push each of the short pieces that make up Bachs Goldberg Variations to its furthest physical, musical, spiritual extreme.Arts Journal - Sep 09 08:30am
http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2012/09/just_another_da.shtml
Good as Gould
100% Glenn Gould performed with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra in 1959, conducted by Victor Feldbrill, centre. Recorded Oct. 8, 1959, Glenn Gould performs Brahms' Piano Concerto No. 1 with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra. 21-22) is the launch of three limited-edition CDs, including a live recording of the WSO with eccentric Canadian pianist Glenn Gould -- from Oct. 8, 1959. The CD, which Winnipeggers can purchase for $20 (taxes included), features Gould's first performance of Brahms's Piano Concerto No. 1. This year marks the 80th anniversary of Gould's birth (on Sept. It was then-conductor Victor Feldbrill, who studied with Gould at the University of Toronto, who brought the piano prodigy to Winnipeg as a guest artist.
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/entertainment/music/good-as-gould-170464296.html?story=Good%20as%20Gould
The Guardian (UK) 09/20/12
100% "It's 30 years since the death of Glenn Gould, but the pianist still provokes strong reactions. So how do today's top players assess his legacy?" Insights from Stephen Hough, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Steven Osborne, Francesco Piemontesi, and Angela Hewitt (who grew up hearing Gould on CBC Radio).
http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2012/09/what_do_pianist.shtml
Today in Toronto: Dinosaur Jr., Glenn Gould’s Birthday BACHanalia and more
100% Glenn Goulds Birthday BACHanalia The legendary Canadian pianist would likely have been okay with a little punning on the name of the composer with whom he’s most associated.
http://www.torontolife.com/daily/hype/to-do-list/2012/09/24/toronto-events-sep-24/
Glenn Gould Plays Bach
100% 15,19,29/81 (NY [Gould/Carter] (09/02/82) Glenn Gould Plays Bach, No. ... Jacket Collection: Glenn Gould Plays Bach (Sony 64226, 1999), 5. The way Glenn Gould plays Bach is remarkably different ...
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Gould tribute
100% Join University of Regina Conservatory of Performing Arts faculty newcomer, Penny Johnson on Tuesday and Friday at 7: 30 p.m., for two all-Bach piano recitals honouring legendary Canadian pianist Glenn Gould.
http://www.leaderpost.com/Gould+tribute/7288355/story.html
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