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GG: Edward Said



Edward Said, pianist, scholar, Palestinian advocate has died of leukemia.  He spoke and wrote of Gould often.  I always wondered if it was a coincidence that his book The World, The Text, and The Critic bears the initials WTC.

Obit:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/25/obituaries/25CND-SAID.html

A Said/GG Bibliography:

"TORONTO HAS BEEN in Edward Said's consciousness since 1956 when as a student at Harvard he found himself transfixed by a Glenn Gould record. Later he would rush to Gould's performances in Boston; buy all his records; follow his career until his death in 1982; and, being an accomplished pianist himself, write knowledgeably about the genius, including an erudite piece last fall, The Virtuoso as Intellectual..."  http://www.commondreams.org/views/062200-102.htm

"Glenn Gould, the Virtuoso as Intellectual." Raritan (Summer 2000), 20(1):1-16.

Musical Elaborations by Edward Said

"Music: Glenn Gould at the Metropolitan Museum." Nation (November 7, 1987), 245 (15):533-535.

"The Music Itself: Glenn Gould's Contrapuntal Vision." Vanity Fair (May 1983), 46(3):97-101, 127-128. Also In John McGreevy, ed., Glenn Gould: By Himself and His Friends, pp. 45-54. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1983.

Remembrance of Things Played: Presence and Memory in the Pianist's Art: On Glenn Gould:216-229

"In the Chair." Review of Peter Ostwald's Glenn Gould: The Ecstasy and the Tragedy of Genius and Norman Lebrecht's When the Music Stops: Managers, maestros and the Corporate Murder of Classical Music. London Review of Books (July 17, 1997), 19(14):3, 5-6.
Cover-title "Edward Said: Analysing Glenn Gould."