|
Article Excerpt
Glenn Gould: A Life in Pictures. By Tim Page. Richmond Hill, ON; Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2007. [192 p. ISBN: 9781554072897. $29.95.] Illustrations, facsimiles.
Billing itself as "the first photographic treatment of the life of one of the greatest and most fascinating musicians of all time," this book was conceived to celebrate the seventieth anniversary of Glenn Gould's birth, and was first published in hardback under the same title by Doubleday in Toronto in 2002. The current edition is a softcover reprint published in 2007, which presumably makes it a seventy-fifth anniversary tribute, though no changes were made to the original texts.
A brief foreword by the 1999 laureate of the Glenn Gould Prize in Music and Communications, Yo-Yo Ma, extols Gould's "ability to create breathtaking new sound worlds from his own deep understanding of the abstract," and lauds the "legacy of his imagination." A lengthier essay by the Pulitzer Prize-winning music critic, Tim Page, provides a biographical sketch of Gould and attempts to interpret and place into a broader context the salient features of his career. For example, after asking, "Has anybody ever possessed ten fingers with ten such marvelously independent lives?" (p. 14),...
|
|
More articles from Notes
Franz Joseph Haydn.(Symphonies 88-92: Sinfonia Concertante)(Sound reco..., June 01, 2009
M. Zachary Johnson.(Serenade: Music for Saxophone and Piano)(Sound rec..., June 01, 2009
Soliloquies: New Japanese and Chinese Music for Harpsichord and Organ...., June 01, 2009
Ruby Braff.(For the Last Time)(Sound recording review), June 01, 2009
Tommy Flanagan.(Thelonica)(Sound recording review)(Brief article), June 01, 2009
Looking for additional articles?
Search our database of over 3 million articles.
Looking for more in-depth information on this industry?
Search our complete database of Industry & Market reports by text, subject, publication
name or publication date.
About Goliath
Whether you're looking for sales prospects, competitive information, company
analysis or best practices in managing your organization,
Goliath can help you meet your business needs.
Our extensive business information databases empower business
professionals with both the breadth and depth of credible,
authoritative information they need to support their business
goals. Whether it be strategic planning, sales prospecting,
company research or defining management best practices -
Goliath is your leading source for accurate information.
|
|
