GG: Any Upcoming Children's Books about GG?

["Anne M. Marble" <amarble@abs.net>]

I loved Tim Wynne-Jones' "The Maestro." I think his fictionalized version
of GG probably gets closer to the real spirit of GG than some of the
biographical information does.

However, I was wondering... Does anyone know if there are any plans to put
out a biography of Glenn Gould for children? Or perhaps a documentary video
about GG, created with children in mind? (Perhaps something along the idea
of "Mr. Beethoven Lives Upstairs.")

Children are an important, yet neglected, audience. A *lot* of kids are
growing up like my nieces and nephews -- with very little education in
music. Even kids who like music often have no comprehension of "what came
before." My oldest nephew plays contemporary Christian music in a
coffeehouse. (Joe's Place in Essex) He's really "into" music. Yet when I
played Handel's Messiah, and he kept making fun of the way people were
singing. He couldn't grasp that this was, at one time, *contemporary
Christian music.* He couldn't stop being a wise ass long enough to listen.

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Anne M. Marble