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In the minutes after Gould started to play The Art of the Fugue, musicians and other attendees, shocked by the sublimity and electrifying modernity of his Bach, ran to the telephones to alert their friends. The reaction of Davis and the enraged social-media commentators comes as no surprise to Jordan Moran, director of digital marketing with Primary Wave. – Glenn Gould In the years since, Wild has hopped hurdle after hurdle trying to get the Uninvited Guests album across the finish line. “It was becoming clear that it was going to be next to impossible for us to get the licensing to use the samples,” says Wild. While Glenn Gould's 1955 debut recording of Bach's Goldberg Variations has attained legendary status, there are many devoted fans who rank the 1981 recording just as highly, even though it offers a dramatically different interpretation. If you are looking to give feedback on our new site, please send it along to, To view this site properly, enable cookies in your browser. Follow topics and authors relevant to your reading interests. Directed by François Girard. Or we can reference a quote from Gould himself, used in part on the album’s introductory track: “I believe that the only excuse we have for being musicians and for making music in any fashion, is to make it differently, to perform it differently, to establish the music’s difference, vis-a-vis our own difference.”. 4 and sets it to a sick beat and well-spit rhymes. How Glenn Gould’s relationship with his audience created a new authenticity in performance, by Richard Eyre I recently saw a film about the life of Glenn Gould. © Copyright 2021 The Globe and Mail Inc. All rights reserved. "In the future, the audience will become the artist...they will become the uninvited guests at the banquet of the arts." A pianist from Canada had arrived. Full Story. Gould was the first Canadian ­musician, and the first pianist from North America, to appear in Russia after the Second World War. But while the Gould estate has always been on board, Sony Music, which owns the master recordings of Gould’s catalogue, wouldn’t sign off. At the University of British Columbia he read Literature, Philosophy, and Art History. This is a space where subscribers can engage with each other and Globe staff. The rights to the pianist’s name, likeness and publishing royalties now belong to Primary Wave Music, the New York-based publishing company and management firm that is home to the likes of Bob Marley, Whitney Houston, Burt Bacharach, Prince and Alice Cooper. “You felt you were in the presence of a person totally ­absorbed in his strange and enigmatic world, who was at the same time in total control of what he was doing,” said renowned pianist and conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy. He was 32. If you would like to write a letter to the editor, please forward it to letters@globeandmail.com. Kick back with the Daily Universal Crossword. 4.0 out of 5 stars radiomontages of canadiana, 1967-77: orchestrated by glenn gould Reviewed in the United States on March 4, 2015 These are haunting recordings (the "Idea of North" collage has stuck with me, simmering quietly on a back burner, ever since undergraduate days) and other listeners report they stand up to repeat playings. Russia’s famously intense and profound artistic culture would judge him against what were arguably the highest musical standards in the world. 351 King Street East, Suite 1600, Toronto, ON Canada, M5A 0N1, Just $1.99 per week for the first 24 weeks, var select={root:".js-sub-pencil",control:".js-sub-pencil-control",open:"o-sub-pencil--open",closed:"o-sub-pencil--closed"},dom={},allowExpand=!0;function pencilInit(o){var e=arguments.length>1&&void 0!==arguments[1]&&arguments[1];select.root=o,dom.root=document.querySelector(select.root),dom.root&&(dom.control=document.querySelector(select.control),dom.control.addEventListener("click",onToggleClicked),setPanelState(e),window.addEventListener("scroll",onWindowScroll),dom.root.removeAttribute("hidden"))}function isPanelOpen(){return dom.root.classList.contains(select.open)}function setPanelState(o){dom.root.classList[o?"add":"remove"](select.open),dom.root.classList[o? Glenn Herbert Gould (September 25, 1932 – October 4, 1982) was a Canadian pianist who became one of the best-known and celebrated classical pianists of the 20th century. Glenn Herbert Gould was a Canadian classical pianist. ″He would have been horrified by the misogynistic language and sexualized imagery.". Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Glenn Gould, in full Glenn Herbert Gould, (born September 25, 1932, Toronto, Ontario, Canada—died October 4, 1982, Toronto), Canadian pianist known for his contrapuntal clarity and brilliant, if often unorthodox, performances.. Gould studied piano from the age of 3, began composing at 5, and entered the Royal Conservatory of Music of Toronto at 10, earning its associate degree in 1946. That five-day event was supposed to be a farewell bash, with Wild walking away from the project he’d worked on for so long. “Gould had a puritan streak to him,” says Davis, the former secretary of the Glenn Gould Foundation. He was already a sort of legend, although not the kind of myth he has become since his death. ... album producer Billy Wild and his team took over the Gould YouTube … Sign up today. Had Gould begun to tear down an Iron ­Curtain of music? Those who remain are treated to a revelatory experience comparable to John Keats’s in “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer,” where the poet speaks of the exaltation of discovering a new world: “Then felt I like some watcher of the skies / When a new planet swims into his ken; / Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes / He star’d at the Pacific — and all his men / Look’d at each other with a wild surmise — / Silent, upon a peak in Darien.”. And in the case of Uninvited Guests, by bringing his art to a younger generation.”. Next Issue : A new Canadian album in Glenn Gould’s name is occasioning a furor among fans of the revered pianist. February/March 2021, Ad Deadline : Bach's Partita #2. Simply a miracle!” said the great dissident cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, who later sheltered the writer Solzhenitsyn, which resulted in the Soviet ­government banning his performances. This page is also available in / Cette page est également disponible en: Into these shadows ambled a young ­Canadian from Toronto. Subscribe today: … Glenn Herbert Gould was born Glen Gold on September 25, 1932, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Avoid the use of toxic and offensive language. It was composed of edited documentary and newsreel footage, TV clips, concert recordings, home movies and some deft fictional re-creation. Gould was a devotee of the “decadent and bourgeois” avant-garde music of Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg, Anton von Webern, and Ernst Krenek. In the gallery’s basement, Wild and the Uninvited Guests collective performed their Gould remixes. “A strange sensation of exhilaration filled the room,” said film and opera director Andrei Konchalovsky. “We were called the antichrist,” says Toronto’s Wild. Robert Kilborn has written fact and fiction for the National Post, the Montreal Gazette, La Scena Musicale, Westmount Magazine, Cult Montreal, Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art (New York), and Tuck Magazine (London, England). He says, “I have often thought I’d like to try my hand at being a prisoner. There are variations, and then there are variations. Pearls were clutched and Packards careened into ditches when Gould’s ecstatic updates of Johann Sebastian’s snoozy melodies were heard. [email protected] Glenn Gould (1932-1982) was a Canadian pianist, best-known as an interpreter of Bach. Preceding Friday’s release of Uninvited Guests, album producer Billy Wild and his team took over the Gould YouTube channel with an album teaser and videos explaining the project. Non-subscribers can read and sort comments but will not be able to engage with them in any way. “People told me, did you hear what happened? Subscribe today: https://bit.ly/2Mq69a9. Glenn Gould at Eighty. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. (See also the YouTube video of Paul McCartney’s historic 2003 performance in Moscow’s Red Square, which documents the Beatles’ impact on the Soviet Union during its final decades of ­isolation and despair. For some of his Russian ­admirers, Gould’s performances were dangerously exciting: his ecstatic renovation of Bach embodied, for them, the liberating effect of music, a freedom of artistic expression, an emancipation from tired forms and exhausted ideas, and a bold exhibition of individualism that were completely contrary to official ­Soviet musical and artistic culture. Watching youtube vids with killer piano covers of songs I … “It sounds great, it’s engaging and it’s smart.”, On the other hand, Davis is upset by the material with R-rated lyrical content. That means: If you do not see your comment posted immediately, it is being reviewed by the moderation team and may appear shortly, generally within an hour. Whawon Kim shared a link. Davis particularly appreciates the track Goodnight, a dreamily melodic number built around a sample of Gould playing a Brahms intermezzo in E major. Then Sony changed its mind and worked out a deal with Primary Wave. But in Russia he was a complete unknown. ), In one scene of The Russian Journey Gould delivers a lecture-recital to conservatory ­students and teachers in Moscow. “However, he would have been intrigued, and probably enthusiastic, by the innovative use of technology. International ­recognition, pride, prestige and perhaps his future career were at stake. “I’m pleasantly surprised," says Ron Davis, a jazz pianist and one of the organizers of the Gould event at U of T in 2012. With Colm Feore, Derek Keurvorst, Katya Ladan, Devon Anderson. Readers can also interact with The Globe on Facebook and Twitter . But while we’re excited for classical music fans to hear this new project, it’s for the new Gould listener. —Mstislav Rostropovich. This is a space where subscribers can engage with each other and Globe staff. Glenn Herbert Gould [fn 1] [fn 2] (25 September 1932 – 4 October 1982) was a Canadian classical pianist. Not long ago, while perusing YouTube, I rediscovered Glenn Gould: The Russian Journey, an award-winning documentary about Gould’s two-week visit to the Soviet Union in 1957, where he gave eight concerts, four each in Moscow and Leningrad.Gould was the first Canadian ­musician, and the … As for Gould’s own take on it, we can only speculate. Save this story for later. Gould's playing was distinguished by a remarkable technical proficiency and a capacity to articulate the contrapuntal texture of Bach's music. Join THOUSANDS of Glenn Gould fans and enjoy interviews, performance, and more from his video archives on the official Glenn Gould YouTube channel! Discouraged, Wild held a multimedia Glenn Gould exhibit at a Toronto gallery in the fall of 2018. Save this story for later. He would go on to great – and enduring – international fame and influence as a performer, prolific and innovative recording artist, writer, and broadcaster. “We were told what we were doing was an abomination, and that Gould would have hated it.”, Asked how Gould might have felt about the Uninvited Guests project, a man who knew the pianist well was of two minds. Montréal, Québec Keep up to date with the weekly Nestruck on Theatre newsletter. The Poles Save Western Civilization. A collection of vignettes highlighting different aspects of the life, work, and character of the acclaimed Canadian classical pianist. It was just months after the Suez crisis and the brutal Soviet suppression of the Hungarian revolt. The Glenn Gould School is The Royal Conservatory of Music’s internationally recognized centre for professional training in music performance at the post-secondary and post-graduate levels. Indeed, the rap track Mackin' (IceCold) takes Mozart magic in D-minor to adults-only places. Full Disclaimer. Join THOUSANDS of Glenn Gould fans and enjoy interviews, performance, and more from his video archives on the official Glenn Gould YouTube channel! The second half of the concert was sold out. He’s a former English teacher, Don Draper, and General Manager of one of Canada’s leading modern dance companies, Anna Wyman Dance Theatre. The Russians respected Bach as a great composer, but saw him as “church music” and therefore a little boring. “We expected the initial negative feedback. Canada H2T 2X8 If there is a heaven, Glenn Gould at that moment is very close. We aim to have all comments reviewed in a timely manner. 5409 Waverly It’s called Uninvited Guests, an adventurous compilation of nine tracks using Gould samples in pop, electronic and hip-hop settings. Glenn Gould – Allegro from Sonata in C Major, K. 521 - YouTube Music. Today would have been Glenn Gould’s eightieth birthday. Would Gould approve? We hope to have this fixed soon. Switch gears. Thank you for your patience. Simply a miracle! Glenn Gould was incredible in terms of his musical understanding. Follow on Twitter @GlennGouldLtd This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy. When Gould slowed a Brahms concerto to a crawl, so slow that “it was very tiring” for the orchestra to play, he was convinced he had discovered a secret key to the tempo within the piece itself. I'm a print subscriber, link to my account, Read more about following topics and authors. Give your brain a workout and do today’s Daily Cryptic Crossword. Scoop a new vibe in the numbers and do today’s Daily Sudoku. Glenn Gould is a source of inspiration and creativity for all those who participated in this project. His playing was distinguished by remarkable technical proficiency and capacity to articulate the polyphonic texture of Bach’s music. He was renowned as an interpreter of the keyboard works of Johann Sebastian Bach. His ­successor Khrushchev held an anaconda chokehold on power and openly and ­repeatedly threatened the West with nuclear annihilation. It was the zenith of the Cold War, when the state controlled every physical and mental aspect of Russian society, and imposed a blackout or coma in cultural matters. Stalin, who some scholars say murdered 60 million people, had died four years earlier. September 25, 2012. “Sony was intrigued with what we were doing, but without the licensing, we had no way of monetizing the project.”. January 20, La Scena Musicale Op.10 No.2 is considered one of the most difficult of Chopin's etudes, yet Glenn plays it at a staggeringly fast tempo, with a rough, dry left-hand accompaniment. Gould went on to a sold out performance at the Tchaikovsky Hall with the Moscow Philharmonic and a three-hour solo performance, also at the Tchaikovsky, also sold out, at the end of which the audience applauded for thirty ­minutes. He was one of the best known and most celebrated pianists of the 20th century, and was renowned as an interpreter of the keyboard works of Johann Sebastian Bach. He started out as a rock singer. Glenn Gould may not be the only Canadian known as much for his eccentricities as his achievements — Sir John A. does comes to mind — but he's surely the most famous. The scene was shot in 1959 when Gould was a young man. A new Canadian album in Glenn Gould’s name is occasioning a furor among fans of the revered pianist. Moreover, he was a deep thinker who foresaw the DJ culture – the remix album Uninvited Guests takes its name from the pianist’s ideas on the diminishment of the performer and the audience’s intrusion into the “banquet of the arts.”. The film is presented as a series of 31 short films rather than as one narrative. Glenn Gould Read more about this and other GRAMMYs news at GRAMMY.com Producer Billy Wild, third from left, and his team created Uninvited Guests, a compilation of nine tracks using Gould samples in pop, electronic and hip-hop settings. J.S.Bach "The Goldberg Variations" [ Glenn Gould ... - YouTube He talks about and plays their music alongside Bach’s “to a rather alarming and temporarily uncontrollable murmuring from the audience.” Some elderly professors walk out. Glenn Gould gave his last public concert at the Wilshire Ebell Theater in L.A. 56 years ago. Composers and professors of music, students, poets and philosophers grabbed their coats and ran to the concert hall. Bach was Gould’s specialty. —Mstislav Rostropovich. He was one of the best known and most celebrated pianists of the 20th century, and was renowned as an interpreter of the keyboard works of Johann Sebastian Bach. Until 2017, Posen was the sole executor of the Gould estate. Also available in French and Mandarin. Extracts from "The art of Piano" documentary show Glenn Gould playing J.S.Bach's Partita #2 Welcome to The Globe and Mail’s comment community. Please log in to listen to this story. His mother was a great-grand niece of Edvard Grieg.Young Gould was playing with piano from the age of 3, and started regular lessons with his mother from the age of 4. Remember that this was the pianist who, as a brash 22-year-old prodigy, made his career by goosing Bach’s Goldberg Variations in 1955. The most renowned Canadian classical performer of the 20th century, pianist Glenn Gould remains one of the most fascinating and celebrated figures in all of music, the archetypal riddle wrapped inside an enigma wrapped inside a conundrum. Glenn certainly did not hide his disdain for Chopin, yet would occasionally play the composer's works, "in a weak moment", to use his own words. Glenn Gould was a complicated man, a brilliantly abstract thinker who threw his full physical being into his playing. Francais (French), A pianist from Canada had arrived. We aim to create a safe and valuable space for discussion and debate. Maybe that's why his Bach was phenomenal because he could bring out the multiple layers as much as he liked, and even improvising new voices in his humming at times. Learn how your comment data is processed. We hope they embrace it.”, Clearly Uninvited Guests is not for everyone. For more information about The Royal Conservatory of Music, visit rcmusic.com . Gould was an iconoclast. This is why we firmly believe that you too will find ‘meeting Glenn’ a deeply motivating experience! “You felt you were in the presence of a person totally ­absorbed in his strange and enigmatic world, who was at the same time in total control of what he was doing.”. 514-948-2520, La Scena Musicale 1 Year Personal Canadian Subscription, La Scena Musicale Two Year Personal Subscription - Canada, She Falls from a Tower Shaped Like a Dagger. 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Gould’s sparsely attended first concert at the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory changed everything. music.youtube.com. In the documentary “Hereafter,” he makes an interesting and useful observation about freedom. Simply a miracle! Read our. Glenn Gould, with his longstanding relationship with the Canadian Broadcasting Company and interest in recording technology, is well-represented on YouTube today. Audio for this article is not available at this time. To great acclaim, the twenty-four-year-old Gould had already released Bach’s Goldberg Variations and ­performed with the New York Philharmonic under Leonard Bernstein. If you are a human, do not fill in this field. The composition Gettin' That, for example, takes a loop from Gould’s recording of Bach’s English Suite No. Nevertheless, many Russian music lovers hungered for artistic nourishment beyond a moribund, state-sanctioned, sentimental ­romanticism, that like some dreary official choir ceaselessly repeated 19th-century musical tropes in an endless kowtow to convention. Comments that violate our community guidelines will not be posted. Glenn Gould was an unavoidable presence when I was growing up in Ottowa. Which he did, using artists on his label and production house Division 88 to put together the album of Gould samples, spoken-word snippets and contemporary pop in the form of hip-hop, trance, electronica and neo-soul that has at least one Gould enthusiast semi-impressed. Wild was asked to deliver an album in weeks. The roots of Uninvited Guests stretch back to a 2012 happening at the University of Toronto titled Dreamers Renegades Visionaries: The Glenn Gould Variations. “I know that he wouldn’t have wanted anyone to change his work,” says Stephen Posen, who was Gould’s lawyer from 1971 until the pianist’s death at age 50 in 1982. Glenn Gould (1932­–82) never returned to Russia, where he remains a cult figure. Not long ago, while perusing YouTube, I rediscovered Glenn Gould: The Russian Journey, an award-winning documentary about Gould’s two-week visit to the Soviet Union in 1957, where he gave eight concerts, four each in Moscow and Leningrad. Welcome to The Globe and Mail’s comment community. Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould is a 1993 Canadian biographical anthology film about the pianist Glenn Gould, played by Colm Feore.It was directed by François Girard, with a screenplay by Girard and Don McKellar.. 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