RE: JCO: Glenn Gould

Hi Randy, Cyrano and Everyone:

I  don't have a suggestion for a specific story.  Glenn Gould was especially known for certain things:  giving up doing concerts in favor of just making recordings, making vocal noises while he played, and what were considered profound but sometimes eccentric interpretations of composers like Bach.  Does this sound like anyone in a JCO story?

 

Steve 

Hi, Randy.  Well, it's not "Nightmusic" -- that's Mozart.  The trespassing composer in the novel Nemesis resembles Ned Rorem.  Let's see...I would guess the guest genius at a Buffalo conservatory, Breuer, in the the story "Premature Autobiography" (The Goddess & Other Women).  As a little intellectual foreplay, he tells the young heroine to "Talk to me on the piano." I don't know enough about Glenn Gould to say for sure.  What do you think?

 

In a message dated 8/10/2007 11:45:55 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, tinmachine@earthlink.net writes:

Hi All,

Here's a query for you: does anyone recall a JCO story or character that was directly or indirectly inspired by the pianist Glenn Gould? An encyclopedia entry suggests there is such a story, but does not give any further clue.

Thanks

Randy

 

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