in Canada, GG venerated as a quasi-saint

[jerbidoc@jaws.greatwhite.com (jerry and judy)]

> I though it was time for a new Glenn Gould thread, since there hasn't
> been one for days...
>
> I came acorss a review in the NYT of a new book, _Glenn Gould: The
> Ecstasy and Tragedy of Genius_ by Peter F. Ostwald.  Ostwald was a
> professor of psychiatry, and wrote books on Schumann and Nijinsky.
>
> The review was in general quite positive, I wanted to offer one
> quote from the book:
>         ";What Glenn never seemed able consciously to perceive or
>         acknowledge was his own extreme competitiveness.  In  fact,
>         one might consider his having won, posthumously, the biggest
>         competition of all, that of survival in public memory.
>         Among the great pianists who have died within the last
>         two decades - Rubinstein, Kempf, Arrau, Horowitz, Bolet,
>         Serkin - Glenn Gould continues to be the one who is most
>         talked and argued about, seen...listened to..and even
>         in Canada, venerated as a quasi-saint"

> Michael Quinn    tg@acpub.duke.edu

This was posted in rec.music.classical.recordings

FYI and for any comments on his competitiveness?