Glenn Gould is dead. He was the most individual performing musician of his generation, and his passing at the age of fifty removes the one pianist from the musical scene who seemed to have the ability ...
On the evening of April 10, 1964 — that is, 60 years ago Wednesday — the Canadian virtuoso Glenn Gould stepped away from the piano at the end of his concert at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre in Los ...
Rather than presenting a biopic with an arc that would naturally be presumed to move in certain directions, François Girard’s Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould (1993) approaches its fascinating ...
Even nations that can’t seem to meet at the negotiating table have often found common ground on the stage, sending musicians out in the global field as cultural ambassadors. Most notably, the U.S.