From: owner-navy-soup-digest@smoe.org (navy-soup-digest) To: navy-soup-digest@smoe.org Subject: navy-soup-digest V5 #154 Reply-To: navy-soup@smoe.org Sender: owner-navy-soup-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-navy-soup-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk navy-soup-digest Thursday, September 26 2002 Volume 05 : Number 154 In This Digest: ----------------- TSC: Glenn Gould ["James McGarry" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 08:47:07 -0400 From: "James McGarry" Subject: TSC: Glenn Gould Tangential Sarah Content Today marks the 70th Anniversary of Glenn Gould's birth (and Oct 4th the 20th anniversary of his passing). CBC II is running all-day Gould, but I'll let them explain: "8:00 AM Variations on Gould This Wednesday, CBC Radio Two devotes an entire day of programming to Glenn Gould, the brilliant and enigmatic Canadian pianist who electrified the concert stage for a decade, and then withdrew to a reclusive life of recording. Gould remains - after Elvis Presley - the most written-about musician of the twentieth century. Join host Shelagh Rogers for Variations on Glenn Gould, an all-day feast of music, anecdotes, interviews and insights from people he worked with and those he inspired. Variations on Glenn Gould, Wednesday starting at 8 a.m. (8:30 NT) on CBC Radio Two. " http://artscanada.cbc.ca/gould If you're lucky you'll hear both versions of the Goldberg Variations... the first quick and passionate with the fervor of youth, the second contemplative with the wisdom of experience. I remember picking up the digitally remaster vinyl (heh!) of the first GVs which cost, at the time, several days pay for me, buying a new needle for the record player just so it wouldn't mess up the record some how. Its still one of my very favourite recordings. And one of my very favourite conversations on music itself involved Gould, he and Yehudi Menuhin talking about music and its future in Menuhin's "Music of Man" series. And for those of you who don't know, Sarah lists Gould as one of her influences. James. ------------------------------ End of navy-soup-digest V5 #154 *******************************