tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40062956153632393552011-08-16T18:24:16.779-04:00<br>"All the music that really interests me -- not just some of it, all of it -- is contrapuntal music." - Glenn Gould, 1982 <br><br>contrapuntal |ˌkäntrəˈpəntl| adjective Music of or in counterpoint. • (of a piece of music) with two or more independent melodic lines.The Contrapuntal Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00150942726347104939noreply@blogger.comBlogger471100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006295615363239355.post-84830550913973536162011-07-11T11:09:00.003-04:002011-07-11T11:15:20.407-04:00

The Glenn Gould Foundation thanks all its readers and contributors to The Contrapuntal Blog. Since the release of our new website in March 2010, we have created a new space for creative Submissions and have wrapped up the Blog for the time being. Please visit us at www.glenngould.ca for updates on our activities. Sincerely,The Glenn Gould Foundation Team

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DJ Young hails from the Pacific Northwest. She grew up on the island of Wrangell, Alaska, surrounded by Tlingets, drunken lumbermen and lots of water. When she wasn't climbing trees and stealing cigarettes she enjoyed listening to tales of mystical land otters, ravens and cholera epidemics. As young musician in college she came across Gould's '81 recordings of the Goldberg Variations and has

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Below is a video of Christian Vasquez conducting the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra playing "Castellanos - Santa Cruz de Pacairigua" in rehearsal before the October 29, 2009 Youth Concert at the Rogers Centre presented by Rogers for over 14,700 students across Ontario. Enjoy! Stay tuned for more!

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The below blog post is also a Google Wave wave. View the wave to see screen shots of the app! Adam Lazzarato (@adamlazzarato) is a 19-year-old Intern at The Glenn Gould Foundation. He is responsible for overseeing the Contrapuntal Blog and tweeting for the Glenn Gould Foundation at @GlennGouldFndn. His musical tastes consist of mainly North American indie rock, but over his time at the Glenn

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Hello all! To give a quick report on the new documentary that screened at TIFF this week - Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould - I am happy to report that this will likely become the gauge by which we measure the quality of future films about Gould.  It is a brilliant and highly accurate piece of work, in that the many interviews conducted, were done with those who were closest to

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Glenn Gould once said that he would stop playing the piano at the age of fifty. This happened in fact—just not in the way that he had in mind. The idea was that he would then move on to some other pursuit. Probably conducting, or further explorations in documentary radio production. This is what you would expect. But I think it would have been interesting if GG had branched out in completely new

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This is the next post in The Contrapuntal Blog Guest Blogger Series. The purpose is to showcase some of the worlds most passionate and creative Gould fans' creations through photo, video and writing. Kamila Dameron is a 20 year old student in Seattle majoring in English and Journalism. She is a closet pianist, and has studied on and off for nearly 15 years. Contact Kamila: kamiladameron@

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This is the next post in The Contrapuntal Blog Guest Blogger Series. The purpose is to showcase some of the worlds most passionate and creative Gould fans' creations through photo, video and writing.DJ Young hails from the Pacific Northwest. She grew up on the island of Wrangell, Alaska, surrounded by Tlingets, drunken lumbermen and lots of water. When she wasn't climbing trees and stealing

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This is the next post in The Contrapuntal Blog Guest Blogger Series. The purpose is to showcase some of the worlds most passionate and creative Gould fans' creations through photo, video and writing.Allison Schwartz is an architect.Gustavo Dudamel plays in LA VEGAEdit (Aug. 28, 2009): Three amazing videos of the eventOn Sunday August 2nd, I visited the barrio La Vega to see a free musical

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This is the next post in The Contrapuntal Blog Guest Blogger Series. The purpose is to showcase some of the worlds most passionate and creative Gould fans' creations through photo, video and writing.Brendan Finan is an Irish composer, piano teacher and technology obsessive. He keeps a blog at www.brendanfinan.com, a Twitter page (@TheMadderHat) and runs a (usually) weekly podcast called Classical

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This is the next post in The Contrapuntal Blog Guest Blogger Series. The purpose is to showcase some of the worlds most passionate and creative Gould fans' creations through photo, video and writing.Adam Lazzarato (@adamlazzarato) is a 19-year-old Intern at The Glenn Gould Foundation. He is responsible for overseeing the Contrapuntal Blog and tweeting for the Glenn Gould Foundation at @

The Contrapuntal Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14549563718089649841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006295615363239355.post-91863936290950746572009-08-04T11:37:00.002-04:002009-08-20T11:28:11.432-04:00

This is the next post in The Contrapuntal Blog Guest Blogger Series. The purpose is to showcase some of the worlds most passionate and creative Gould fans' creations through photo, video and writing.Jean-Marie MELE (jme@acklabs.net) is a thirty-something consultant in Information Technology Security living a quiet life in France. He was introduced very early to music and although he did not took

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This is the next post in The Contrapuntal Blog Guest Blogger Series. The purpose is to showcase some of the worlds most passionate and creative Gould fans' creations through photo, video and writing.Lori Lewis (@EverydayOpera) has spent her lifetime in music. Her childhood was consumed with its enjoyment and participation. She embarked on her first career in Radio just to be around the music and

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A Möbius strip is a one-sided object. It is constructed by taking a strip of paper, giving it a half-twist and joining the ends together. In theory, however, a perfect Möbius strip is unbroken—i.e. it does not involve joining two ends together, but is seamless.The Möbius strip is a kind of infinite loop. If you were to walk along its length you would cover both "sides" without crossing an edge,

Christoffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13319233313843416566noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006295615363239355.post-24097056441840471302009-07-20T15:19:00.009-04:002009-07-27T09:32:45.132-04:00

The Contrapuntal Blog Guest Blogger Series begins now. The purpose is to showcase some of the worlds most passionate and creative Gould fans' creations through photo, video and writing.Yuka Zuver (@StudioDaCapo) is a Japanese-born self-taught pencil artist.Over the past few years she has focused her drawing talent on portraits including Glenn Gould.The late Canadian pianist has been the main

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Some time ago we considered the possibility that Glenn Gould would have benefited from today's technology to do stuff that he wanted to do but wasn't possible at the time. Imagine what GG could have done with today's information technologies. It may have produced some awesome results. Or maybe not. If you've ever found that the internet can be a more pernicious time-waster than TV ever was, then

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Glenn Gould called himself “the last Puritan”—a claim consistent with his seemingly Gnostic attitude toward the physical world. He took no pleasure in eating, could not tolerate alcohol, avoided physical contact with other people, had minimal regard for his personal appearance, lived in a Spartan apartment outfitted with dull, functional furniture, and had an almost allergic aversion to color.

Christoffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13319233313843416566noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006295615363239355.post-44878133956791078342009-02-08T21:03:00.003-05:002009-07-14T12:24:40.568-04:00

My latest trial by fumbling is Bach's Prelude No. 3. It is beautiful and tricky and this edition includes an awkward page turn after 12 bars. Like many adults attempting to master piano, I have a sense of how I wish to render the piece (though it often sounds like RENDING), if only the synapses would fire properly. I want the poco dims and the poco crescs to come out subtly, sensitively,

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Throughout his professional life Glenn Gould was in touch with the latest developments in technology. It wasn't simply a matter of keeping "up to date" with it but more of being inspired by it. New innovations in recording and broadcast technologies stimulated Gould's creative mind to imagine new artistic possibilities in much the same way as they did for contemporary rock musicians such as The

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Over the past six months, I have listened to the Goldberg Variations, watched Thirty Two Short Films, pondered the Solitude Trilogy. I have looked at pictures, met countless people who have been deeply touched by Mr. Gould, read many articles and interviews. Yet I still do not know. There is still so much to learn about Mr. Gould.Thankfully, I do not walk alone. Every young grasshopper needs a

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There's an unusual amount of interest in Glenn Gould's eating habits—mainly, I guess, because he didn't eat very much, so it so it ties in to the ascetic quality of his personna.You probably know that Gould was a frequent patron of Fran's Restaurant, and I can think of at least three good reasons why he would be. First, Fran's served the kind of food that, for a long time, was the only kind of

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Pischna (peesh nuh) n. A set of sadistic finger exercises designed to destroy an amateur pianist's self-esteem.I am addressing my fingers. Trying to be reasonable with them. Giving them a good shaking to rid them of tension and hostility. Cracking the knuckles to re-align them. They are ignoring me. In fact, they are doing whatever the hell they want because I am imposing Pischna on

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What a chaotic season! I have been so busy with my work at the Foundation, holiday plans, shopping, card signing, baking...I have a hunch that as soon as I beat a cold, someone else passes a new one on to me, leading to the perpetual illness. I cannot wait for the holidays, where I will sit with my family and army of cats (My mother kindly allows me to bring my two critters home to visit with her

The Contrapuntal Blognoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006295615363239355.post-15485537023517748622008-12-11T20:59:00.003-05:002009-07-14T12:25:58.725-04:00

In 14 days into Christmas, I know about what to get for Mr. Pianossisimo, my piano teacher, for Christmas. Mr Pianossisimo is a Chopin fan. I have an idea about a gift. Can you guess?Here are the hints:1. This thingy is already out of stock in Amazon.com. Luckily, Ms. Mommy Bach placed the order before it is out-of-stock. She is always so fast :) When Ms. Mommy Bach plays piano, her rhythm is

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My cats are viciously attacking me. Why won't you let me sleep?!? My alarm clock loudly blares. All hopes of falling back to sleep are lost. I look out my window and discover a snow covered roof. That does not bode well for my trek to work. I climb out of bed. I am so cold. I walk to the bathroom. The toilet overflows. This is clearly not my day. With the first big snowfall, the subway is packed.

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Last year the Luminato Festival in Toronto presented a one-man play that brought to light an aspect of Glenn Gould's life I'd never really considered before. An Evening with Glenn Gould, written by John McGreevy, centres on a single evening of his life, in particular, his last one. McGreevy, who had collaborated with Gould on the documentary, Glenn Gould's Toronto (it is in this program that

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I am going to Maryland the week after Thanksgiving to participate in a Bach documentary by Michael Lawrence Films. I am very excited :) Guess what ? Ms Mommy Bach is even more excited. But she is not going to be on the film :)Bach = Humanity vs. Bach ≠ HumanityEvery artist in the film talks about the above equation. Is this infinite equality? Or finite inequality? I don’t know what to say about

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YouTube is my secret little indulgence. Since I have no access to television, people assume that I occupy myself with all sorts of productive activities -- such as practising Hanon dutifully on the piano. But today I have just spent upwards of an hour surfing the myriad offerings on YouTube. Among them, a delicious variety of videos of Glenn Gould -- at work and at play on the

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Since writing last time about the impossibility of visiting Glenn Gould's Toronto, this article appeared in the EYE Weekly covering the disappearance of local diners in the city and their replacement by more generic eateries. The article generated a predictable response a week later when one modern Torontonian wondered (rhetorically) why anyone would miss such places now that we can go for

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*♥ ____i √Bach Let’s solve Bach’s music using our imagination!Dear Readers,Do you have a love for the music of Bach? The answer for most people, especially young musicians, would be a ‘no’. I play Bach on the harpsichord and piano. I would like to change the fact that most people

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When you work somewhere like The Glenn Gould Foundation and when you are on a quest to get acquainted with Mr. Gould, it is often challenging to decide where to go next. I walk over to the shelves, my eyes glancing over the numerous book titles. Yes, Kevin Bazzana's Wondrous Strange, that is on my to-do list. I am not quite ready to commit. After reading all but the final novel, I have decided

The Contrapuntal Blognoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006295615363239355.post-5773801779324780742008-11-16T15:11:00.005-05:002008-11-19T11:50:54.568-05:00

The left hand continues to do battle with the right hand. Or perhaps, more accurately, I am doing battle with both. They are like a couple of recalcitrant children, wanting to go their own ways. If that wasn't trying enough, each brings its own temperament to the keyboard. The right hand, smugly content in having the melody most of the time and getting the most attention by the mere fact

Note Makernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006295615363239355.post-47996132288736888752008-11-13T21:31:00.016-05:002008-11-24T19:30:00.475-05:00

Glenn Gould was a life-long Torontonian by choice. He had no desire to live anywhere else. And yet, according to Kevin Bazzana, very few authors mention Toronto in any significant way when writing about Gould. Bazzana argues that to miss the influence of Toronto is to miss something essential to Gould's character. That seems exactly right to me.One of the reasons that GG was and continues to be

Christoffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13319233313843416566noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006295615363239355.post-21028296084295024372008-11-11T22:57:00.020-05:002008-11-11T23:17:47.031-05:00

Ms. Bach made a speech in the Library of Congress in Washington DC in United States. Ms. Bach felt like a Congress-woman :)----------------------------Dear all,I am very happy and honored to come here today to receive the Davidson Fellowship award. It feels like a ... Grammy award for... kids!My project is called 'I Love Bach'. My goal is to share the complexity and joy of Bach's music with the

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I am learning to play"It Might As Well Be Spring"but my left hand would rather be jinglingthe change in the darkness of my pocketor taking a nap on an armrest.I have to drag him into the musiclike a difficult and neglected child.This is the revenge of the one who never getsto hold the pen or wave good-bye,and now, who never gets to play the melody. -from "Piano Lessons" by Billy

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My first day of work at the Foundation was on August 11th. In addition to the exciting new addition of Liz Murray, in the newly created position of fundraising administrator, the Foundation was also moving to a new downtown home. After four years of constant relocation as a co-op student, I have developed a slight aversion to the act of moving. Luckily, Brian and I decided that they would move on

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My first piano lesson in nearly a decade began inauspiciously. "You're sitting far too close to the piano," the teacher points out immediately, noting that my fingers are touching nearly the tops of the black keys. "But I can't sit any further back," I whine like a petulant child, at the ready with flimsy excuses. She ignores my protest and comments instead on the flatness of my

Note Makernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006295615363239355.post-68617707976011882302008-11-05T22:14:00.000-05:002008-11-06T14:57:07.037-05:00

Ms Bach’s last email to Mr. Gould bounced back. :(Mr. Gould was still concertizing in 1964. The Glenn Gould Foundation has not formed yet. Ms Mommy Bach said she forgot to tell Ms. Bach. She’s always like that. :(Ms. Bach ended up writing a letter to Mr. Gould. The letter stopped in Boston in United States where they have great lobsters and the great “FromTheTop” people (http://www.fromthetop.org

Ms Bachnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006295615363239355.post-47658937056052501162008-10-31T13:27:00.001-04:002009-07-27T09:50:09.955-04:00

Since confirming, last post, that Glenn Could is the most written-about pianist ever, I want to avoid, as far as I can, writing about any aspects of Gould's life that have already been extensively written-up. But, since the details of everything from GG's Arrowroot-cookie & milk habit, to his peculiar musical philosophies, to his Steve McQueen-like driving, have been covered to death and are

Christoffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13319233313843416566noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006295615363239355.post-9121123690173950092008-10-30T09:18:00.000-04:002008-10-30T10:08:50.185-04:00

Like many others before me, my first introduction to Mr. Gould was through his 1981 Goldberg Variations. Although I would never claim to be a musician, I do feel that I know the basics and have definitely developed an appreciation over the years. As a child, my mother tried to force- feed piano lessons to me. First, we tried Suzuki lessons. I mastered the Twinkles but in the end, it always came

The Contrapuntal Blognoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006295615363239355.post-16695206924549509652008-10-29T17:15:00.000-04:002008-10-29T18:10:16.135-04:00

I have listened to Glenn Gould's later recording of the Goldberg Variations so many times that I am quite sure I could identify his interpretation in a blind taste test. But wait, I flatter myself. Perhaps I recognize it as his not because of the infamously lingering pace of the Aria but could it be the tell-tale murmur alongside the notes? It was said that recording technicians despaired

Note Makernoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006295615363239355.post-72473591234548554952008-10-28T12:48:00.000-04:002008-10-28T12:56:51.154-04:00

Time tells time is passing away, but it does not tell us what is coming back in its stead. I can’t believe Google Gmail is allowing people to change "time.", at least that’s what Ms. Mommy Bach told me. I don’t need a time machine. I can send an email to Mr. Glenn Gould in his time right now.Date: Oct 24, 1964 From: msbach@gmail.comTo: glenn.gould@glenngouldfoundation.orgSubject: a giftDear Mr.

The Contrapuntal Blognoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006295615363239355.post-47289037497132721772008-10-22T15:34:00.000-04:002008-10-30T10:08:03.225-04:00

As a young Canadian who loves music and the arts, as the newly hired fundraising administrator at The Glenn Gould Foundation, I think it is time for me to come clean about something. As a history grad, as a Toronto resident, I, Liz Murray, have been faking it.Here goes, with great regret, I admit that...I have merely been pretending to know Mr. Gould.How, you ask? I shamefully admit to using my

The Contrapuntal Blognoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006295615363239355.post-24686620008593937962008-10-21T11:03:00.000-04:002008-11-06T14:56:19.015-05:00

“Of all the music that really interests me – not just some of it, all of it – isContrapuntal music” - Ms. Bach :) Oct 21, 2008 Contrapunctus #9 from “Art of Fugue”, BWV 1080

The Contrapuntal Blognoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006295615363239355.post-35781090918510773672008-10-20T18:05:00.000-04:002008-10-20T18:25:04.134-04:00

"...every keyis like a different roomand I am a blind man who must learnto walk through all twelve of themwithout hitting the furniture." (from "Piano Lessons" by Billy Collins)So(h). I am 53 years old and taking piano lessons, not for the first time, but for the third time in my adult life. And it occurs to me, as I sit (too close to the piano), peering near-sightedly at the black notes

Note Makernoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006295615363239355.post-46265741422869728732008-10-19T00:01:00.001-04:002009-07-27T09:49:51.466-04:00

HYPOTHESISSince I'm about to add to the already copious amount of writing on the subject of Glenn Gould, I think it's appropriate to take a look at what's out there, or—more to the point—exactly how much is out there; because my suspicion is that GG is probably the most written-about pianist. Ever. METHOD So, for starters, let's test this hypothesis—the modern way: by searching Google. My

Christoffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13319233313843416566noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006295615363239355.post-74221194413942232352008-10-18T10:12:00.006-04:002009-08-13T09:49:38.954-04:00

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