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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. |