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Author Bazzana, Kevin.

Title Wondrous strange : the life and art of Glenn Gould / Kevin Bazzana.

Imprint New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Kansas Collection Clugston  786.2 G732Bb 2004    ---  Lib Use Only
Description 528 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 496-501) and index.
Contents A posthumous life -- Beach boy -- National treasure -- Vaudevillian -- Renaissance Man -- A portrait of the artist -- The last puritan.
Summary "In Wondrous Strange, Kevin Bazzana recaptures the life of Glenn Gould, one of the most celebrated pianists of our time. Drawing on twenty years of intensive research, including unrestricted access to Gould's private papers and interviews with scores of friends and colleagues, many of them never interviewed before, Bazzana sheds new light on such topics as Gould's family history, his secretive sexual life, and the mysterious problems that afflicted his hands in his later years. The author places Gould's distinctive traits - his eccentric interpretations, his garish onstage demeanor, his resistance to convention - against the backdrop of his religious, upper middle-class Canadian childhood, illuminating the influence of Gould's mother as well as the lasting impact of the only piano teacher Gould ever had. Bazzana offers a fresh appreciation of Gould's concert career - his high-profile but illness-plagued international tours, his adventurous work for Canadian music festivals, his musical and legal problems with Steinway & Sons. In 1964, Gould made the extraordinary decision to perform only for records, radio, television, and film, a turning point that the author examines with unprecedented thoroughness (discussing, for example, his far-seeing interest in new recording technology). Here, too, are Gould's interests away from the piano, from his ambitious but failed effort to be a composer to his innovative brand of "contrapuntal radio.""--Jacket.
Subject Gould, Glenn.
Pianists -- Canada -- Biography.
Gould, Glenn. (OCoLC)fst00012147
Pianists. (OCoLC)fst01063351
Canada. (OCoLC)fst01204310
Added Title Life and art of Glenn Gould
ISBN 0195174402
9780195174403
0195182464 (pbk.)
9780195182460 (pbk.)

 
    
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