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in Canada, GG venerated as a quasi-saint
> I though it was time for a new Glenn Gould thread, since there hasn't
> been one for days...
>
> I came acorss a review in the NYT of a new book, _Glenn Gould: The
> Ecstasy and Tragedy of Genius_ by Peter F. Ostwald. Ostwald was a
> professor of psychiatry, and wrote books on Schumann and Nijinsky.
>
> The review was in general quite positive, I wanted to offer one
> quote from the book:
> ";What Glenn never seemed able consciously to perceive or
> acknowledge was his own extreme competitiveness. In fact,
> one might consider his having won, posthumously, the biggest
> competition of all, that of survival in public memory.
> Among the great pianists who have died within the last
> two decades - Rubinstein, Kempf, Arrau, Horowitz, Bolet,
> Serkin - Glenn Gould continues to be the one who is most
> talked and argued about, seen...listened to..and even
> in Canada, venerated as a quasi-saint"
> Michael Quinn tg@acpub.duke.edu
This was posted in rec.music.classical.recordings
FYI and for any comments on his competitiveness?