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BAZZANA, KEVIN / GLENN GOULD Glenn Gould , the Life and Art of - Wondrous Strange
Toronto: McLelland & Stewart Pub, 2003. 3rd Printing. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Photos. 6 -1/4 x 9-1/4 x 1-1/2 " 0771011016 2003 Hardcover in DJ 3rd printing ... Brand new from publisher ... Never opened, Never owned, Never marked ... Jacket protected in New non-stick clear mylar sleeve ... Excellent Gift Giving quality ... 528 pages , with 12 pages of B&W photos + B&W photo of Glenn Gould trying out pianos in Columbia Records 30th Street studio in New York, April 1957 on endpages ... In this brilliant and entertaining biography, the product of 20 years' research, Kevin Bazzana sheds new light on the life of Glenn Gould, as well as his personality, and multifarious work as pianist, writer, broadcaster, and composer ... Looking past the legend of the self-taught and emotionally damaged recluse who "burst out of nowhere" onto the international musical scene in the mid-1950s, he offers a balanced portrait of a complex figure who, while uniquely gifted and genuinely eccentric, was in many ways also a product of his time and place ... Bazzana examines the profound effects on Gould of the social, religious, and cultural milieu of Depression-era Toronto, of his sheltered middle-class upbringing, of his only professional piano teacher, and of the new cultural institutions that arose in Canada after the Second World War ... He offers fresh perspectives on Gould's professional life, too - his brief but colourful concert career, his retirement from concert life in favour of the electronic and print media, his relations with such institutions as the CBC, Columbia Records, and Steinway and Sons ... Drawing on revealing recollections by Gould's friends and colleagues (many interviewed here for the first time) as well as close reading of private papers, Bazzana offers fascinating and original insights into Gould's musical and intellectual development, his famous eccentricities, his lifestyle and beliefs, his secretive sexual life, his hypochondria and mental health, his distinctly Canadian sense of humour, and much else ... Finally, he explores the challenges of Gould's last years - hand problems, family troubles, new creative outlets like film scoring and conducting - and considers the extraordinary posthumous "life" Gould still enjoys more than two decades after his death ... "Wondrous Strange" is generously illustrated with photographs (some of them rare) and facsimiles drawn from Gould's private papers ... " Wondrous Strange: The Life and Art of Glenn Gould " ... by Kevin Bazzana... published by McLelland & Stewart, Toronto ... in English only ... 2003 3rd printing, Hardcover in Dustjacket ***. New/New .
Offered for US$ 49.95 by: Cavendish International Books & Music - Book number: 6267
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