Re: [F_MINOR] Favorite GG Pix

[Brad Lehman <bpl@UMICH.EDU>]

> Of the many pictures of Glenn Gould, what are your favorites?And which
> picture(s) do you think most captures his essence as a musician, person,
> etc.? (He had a lot of essences, so it's all right to pick more than
> one picture.)

I like the one (not on the web, AFAIK) of him as a young teenager playing
piano duets with his dog Nicky, somewhere in the book
_Variations_.  There's also a nice one of him at age 5 with an earlier dog,
on page 137 of _Selected Letters_.  And the two of him with the abandoned
hearse on pages 82-3 of Jock Carroll's book.

And the handwritten page of his Handel arrangement (first movement, A major
suite) in Bazzana's book...the way he recomposed pieces according to his
own priorities instead of simply playing them.  [This arrangement that is
unstuck in time, like Billy Pilgrim in the film he was working on
contemporaneously, _Slaughterhouse-Five_.]

Perhaps someone could find other favorites here:
http://images.google.com/images?q=glenn+gould

Brad Lehman

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