{"id":1081,"date":"2009-09-25T09:51:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-25T16:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2009\/09\/celebrating-glenn-gould.html"},"modified":"2018-09-25T16:37:42","modified_gmt":"2018-09-25T23:37:42","slug":"celebrating-glenn-gould","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2009\/09\/celebrating-glenn-gould.html","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Glenn Gould"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_yrL6yfubw8g\/Sr0Fx8YMWvI\/AAAAAAAAAaQ\/urGWbwufsB0\/s1600-h\/Glenn_Gould_1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_yrL6yfubw8g\/Sr0Fx8YMWvI\/AAAAAAAAAaQ\/urGWbwufsB0\/s320\/Glenn_Gould_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nToday would be the birthday of a musician who&#8217;s nearly up there, for me, with john lennon and john coltrane. like them, he was a force of nature, complicated personally, and a man who left so much music behind i&#8217;ve listen to him every week &#8212; sometimes every day &#8212; for years.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>part of what first interested me about pianist glenn gould (1932-82) is that he was a classical musician who rockers, literati, bohos and generalist intellectuals seemed to like: there are depths to him, for sure, but you did not have to understand the harmonic theory behind &#8220;the well-tempered clavier&#8221; to respond to its velocity and intellectual force.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>i&#8217;ve also found, especially in my younger days, gould&#8217;s treatment of bach to be the best hangover medicine i know.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/articles.latimes.com\/2003\/aug\/10\/entertainment\/ca-timberg10\">HERE<\/a> is my piece, &#8220;the cult of gould,&#8221; from the LATimes. my goal was to round up people who loved gould from outside the classical world, so i found filmmaker john waters, the actress who played Flo on &#8220;Alice,&#8221; and jazz musicians brad mehldau and jason moran. critic time page served as a kind of guide to the piece. (somehow i executed this piece without including a single canadian, which seems wrong.)<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>moran provided my favorite detail in the story: he went to see &#8220;thirty two short films about glenn gould,&#8221; with a young woman he fancied. when she decided gould was too weird for her, he could never look at her the same way. it was all over between then.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today would be the birthday of a musician who&#8217;s nearly up there, for me, with john lennon and john coltrane. like them, he was a force of nature, complicated personally, and a man who left so much music behind i&#8217;ve listen to him every week &#8212; sometimes every day &#8212; for years. part of what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4091,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[461,192,54,459,462,460,59,458],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1081","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bach","8":"category-brad-mehldau","9":"category-classical-music","10":"category-glenn-gould","11":"category-jason-moran","12":"category-john-waters","13":"category-piano","14":"category-tim-page","15":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4092,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081\/revisions\/4092"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}