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Wondrous strange : the life and art of Glenn Gould

Author: Kevin Bazzana
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
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"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  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Biography
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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Bazzana, Kevin.
Wondrous strange.
New York : Oxford University Press, 2004
(OCoLC)639397365
Named Person: Glenn Gould; Glenn Gould; Glenn Gould
Material Type: Biography
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Kevin Bazzana
ISBN: 0195174402 9780195174403 0195182464 9780195182460
OCLC Number: 54687539
Description: 528 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents: A posthumous life --
Beach boy --
National treasure --
Vaudevillian --
Renaissance Man --
A portrait of the artist --
The last puritan.
Other Titles: Life and art of Glenn Gould
Responsibility: Kevin Bazzana.
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"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.

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