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Author : Glenn Gould
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Glenn Gould Reader written by Glenn Gould and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter F. Ostwald
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393318470
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)
Download or read book Glenn Gould written by Peter F. Ostwald and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1998 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this acclaimed biography, the late Peter Ostwald--himself an accomplished violinist and longtime personal friend of Gould's--raises many questions about Gould and his music, and lays bare the energy and contradiction behind his brilliance. Photos. NPR feature.
Author : Kevin Bazzana
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
ISBN 13 : 1551992876
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)
Download or read book Wondrous Strange written by Kevin Bazzana and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2010-02-05 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first major biography of Glenn Gould to stress the critical influence of the Canadian context on his life and art Glenn Gould was not, as has previously been suggested, an isolated and self-taught eccentric who burst out of nowhere onto the international musical scene in the mid-1950s. He was, says Kevin Bazzana in this fascinating new full-scale biography, very much a product of his time and place – and his entire life and diverse work reflect his Canadian heritage. Bazzana, editor of the international Glenn Gould magazine, throws fresh light on this and many other aspects of Gould’s celebrated life as a pianist, writer, broadcaster, and composer. He portrays Gould’s upbringing in Toronto’s neighbourhood of The Beach in the 1930s, revealing the area’s influence as a distinct social, religious, and cultural milieu. He looks at the impact of Canadian radio on the young musician, his relations with the “new music” crowd in Toronto, and the ways in which his career was furthered by the extraordinary growth of Canada’s cultural institutions in the 1950s. He examines Gould’s place within the CBC “culture” of the 1960s and ‘70s, and his distinctly Canadian sense of humour. Bazanna also reveals new information on Gould’s famous eccentricities, his sometimes bizarre stage manner, his highly selective repertoire, his control mania, his private and sexual life, his hypochondria, his romanticism, and his abrupt retirement from concert performance to communicate solely through electronic and print media. And finally, he takes a detailed look at the extraordinary phenomenon of the posthumous “life” that Gould and his work have enjoyed.
Author : Glenn Gould
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226116239
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)
Download or read book Conversations with Glenn Gould written by Glenn Gould and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2005-11-15 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most idiosyncratic and charismatic musicians of the twentieth century, pianist Glenn Gould (1932–82) slouched at the piano from a sawed-down wooden stool, interpreting Bach, Beethoven, and Mozart at hastened tempos with pristine clarity. A strange genius and true eccentric, Gould was renowned not only for his musical gifts but also for his erratic behavior: he often hummed aloud during concerts and appeared in unpressed tails, fingerless gloves, and fur coats. In 1964, at the height of his controversial career, he abandoned the stage completely to focus instead on recording and writing. Jonathan Cott, a prolific author and poet praised by Larry McMurtry as "the ideal interviewer," was one of the very few people to whom Gould ever granted an interview. Cott spoke with Gould in 1974 for Rolling Stone and published the transcripts in two long articles; after Gould's death, Cott gathered these interviews in Conversations with Glenn Gould, adding an introduction, a selection of photographs, a list of Gould's recorded repertoire, a filmography, and a listing of Gould's programs on radio and TV. A brilliant one-on-one in which Gould discusses his dislike of Mozart's piano sonatas, his partiality for composers such as Orlando Gibbons and Richard Strauss, and his admiration for the popular singer Petula Clark (and his dislike of the Beatles), among other topics, Conversations with Glenn Gould is considered by many, including the subject, to be the best interview Gould ever gave and one of his most remarkable performances.
Author : Geoffrey Payzant
Publisher : Key Porter Books
ISBN 13 : 9781550138580
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)
Download or read book Glenn Gould, Music & Mind written by Geoffrey Payzant and published by Key Porter Books. This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sandrine Revel
Publisher : NBM
ISBN 13 : 1681120674
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)
Download or read book Glenn Gould written by Sandrine Revel and published by NBM. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Glenn Gould was a Canadian pianist, a child genius who became a worldwide superstar of classical music remembered for, among others, his almost revolutionary interpretations of Bach. This graphic novel biography seeks to understand the eccentric personality behind the persona. Who is the mysterious Glenn Gould? Why did he abruptly end his career as a performing musician? Why did he become one of the very first of his peers to disappear from the public eye like J.D. Salinger? Sandrine Revel delves into the life of Gould with hand painted illustrations and the viewpoint of an adoring fan. 2017 marks a number of important anniversaries for Gould: the 85th of his birth and 35th of his death but also the 60th of his legendary tour of Russia, a first for a Western artist, and of his debuts with the worlds' leading orchestras.
Author : Andrew Kazdin
Publisher : New York : Dutton
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)
Download or read book Glenn Gould at Work written by Andrew Kazdin and published by New York : Dutton. This book was released on 1989 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul Elie
Publisher : Union Books
ISBN 13 : 1908526416
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)
Download or read book Reinventing Bach written by Paul Elie and published by Union Books. This book was released on 2013-04-04 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIV Johann Sebastian Bach – celebrated pipe organist, court composer and master of sacred music – was also a technical pioneer. Working in Germany in the early eighteenth century, he invented new instruments and carried out experiments in tuning, the effects of which are still with us today. Two hundred years later, a number of extraordinary musicians have utilised the music of Bach to thrilling effect through the art of recording, furthering their own virtuosity and reinventing the composer for our time. In Reinventing Bach, Paul Elie brilliantly blends the stories of modern musicians with a polyphonic account of our most celebrated composer’s life to create a spellbinding narrative of the changing place of music in our lives. We see the sainted organist Albert Schweitzer playing to a mobile recording unit set up at London’s Church of All Hallows in order to spread Bach’s organ works to the world beyond the churches, and Pablo Casals’s Abbey Road recordings of Bach’s cello suites transform the middle-class sitting room into a hotbed of existentialism; we watch Leopold Stokowski persuade Walt Disney to feature his own grand orchestrations of Bach in the animated classical-music movie Fantasia – which made Bach the sound of children’s playtime and Hollywood grandeur alike – and we witness how Glenn Gould’s Goldberg Variations made Bach the byword for postwar cool. Through the Beatles and Switched-on Bach and Gödel, Escher, Bach – through film, rock music, the Walkman, the CD and up to Yo-Yo Ma and the iPod – Elie shows us how dozens of gifted musicians searched, experimented and collaborated with one another in the service of a composer who emerged as the prototype of the spiritualised, technically savvy artist. /div
Author : Helen Mesaros
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)
Download or read book Bravo Fortissimo Glenn Gould written by Helen Mesaros and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Bravo Fortissimo Glen Gould" is an exceptionally written psychobiography of piano virtuoso Glenn Gould, the musical genius who was said to hold a magical power over his audience. His untimely death at age fifty prompted the author to conduct extensive research into Gould's life. Richly nformative, entertaining, and wonderfully thought-provoking, readers will find it to be a truly "human" sotry that uncovers Gould's life one layer at a time.
Author : Otto Friedrich
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 9780679732075
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)
Download or read book Glenn Gould written by Otto Friedrich and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1989 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the life and career of the classical pianist, and assesses his influence
