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Re: GG: October 12, 1964
Junichi said:
>Dear f_minorians:
>
>Does anyone know what happened on October 12, 1964?:
>
>"ON OCTOBER 12, 1964, GOULD ANNOUNCED HIS
>ABRUPT DEPARTURE FROM THE CONCERT STAGE--
>TO DEVOTE HIS TIME TO RECORDING, LECTURING
>AND WRITING, AS WELL AS RADIO AND TELEVISION
>WORK."(Jock Carroll, *Glenn Gould: Some Portraits of
>the Artist as a Young Man*, Toronto: Stoddart, 1995, p.95.)
[...]
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Odd. The sleeve notes for the Byrd/Gibbon say: "The version [of Sweelinck's
Fantasia]...was made for CBC on 23 & 24 April 1964 -- only two weeks after
GG had bid his final farewell to the public concert platform in Los Angeles
on 10 April 1964."
- Alun
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