1 Tltr HERALD July 13 BOOK REVIEW Complex genius NORMAN Take a complex genius of our Canadian time lake a complex and In pie barrelled subject like music as ma nee as sensation and as concept lake a complex mind that could belong only to a musicologist who has read widely and deeply In aesthetic and re going to get a complex Which is what we in lrnn Gould Mind Geoffrey Pa tint an Lid Tin book on The of them is skullcracking demanding not a knowledge of the orchestral repertoires noi lo mention Tor Ihe or turps also some idea of how the composers and perform i and viewed Iheir roles in life as rctiiled their writings and offhand lo inter the leel recounts Goulds well known perhaps would bo a better word such as the sight that became familiar around Can Corp re stud in Ihc He would wilk in on a warm summer day to the cars in woollen over coat a muffler around his Iwced cap on his head his hands covered In finger less knitted woollen gloves lest the tuning on Hie piano sum and then soak his hands and forearms in warm water for minutes fore performance chair with the piano up on blocks he crouched over the keyboard and the chair had each leg individually adjusted so hat or as he felt the music demanding him to He crooned to Icvbonrd If he had a right hand figure play alone he would conduct it with his free left hand On the concert platform mannerisms struck some critics as signs of la madness and they said so in scornful terms asks How can a man be era whcnheisdoing exactly what he not only wints to do but feels lie must do fie some of Gould own writings on music The is cautious enough to warn the reader tint Gould often indulges himself in ind jokes with the kind of musicologist inter viewer who adheres to the old concert hill or the virtuoso performer Liszt foreiample or some of the flashier ftilurc of our own Gould despises mere virtuo sity as he despises the skills of a bull fighter or a tils music is as much in the mind and in the soul as in what he from keyboard or example when he himself right hand alone and hums at the simt time subsists is hearing a third mire two hands and one pos audible to Gould alone Furthermore Gould is a heretic He early embraced technology the idea that in a concert hill it was wrong for Ihc merely adequate pianist or violinist or soloist to get full marks for playing a piece from beginning without too many technical er When he the con cert hall of his fame he did so because he wanted the of record of works and again until they were right then plieing Ihe recording elimimlc all splicing clicks andean to produce si to Goulds idea of what the musie is trying On lop of this is formidable philosophy evulved by Gould himself with asfpisis from such philosophers Jean I a may a new music with ill he help of technology Nowadays Gould a practi sing and vehement dnae rarely goes concert halls He like urn showoff dynamics intheconteri hall big And he raid of catching cold He works away steadily though al the of music and the possibility that record can find it more closely than any other technique His Columbia albums I hough a few have met with critical disdain arc mostly proof thai his quest is valid This is everyone hook If you love music and have a tuna Iter Ing of philosophy meet Glenn Gould as present by Geoffrey Norman a former staffer has worked with Glenn Gould In radio News Service with supermarket prices ALL PRICES SHOWN IN THIS AD GUARANTEED EFFECTIVE THRU SATURDAY JULY 1978 WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO LIMIT QUANTITIES TO NORMAL FAMILY REQUIREMENTS is a Fresh Beef Shop Cut From Canada Grade A Beef Our Regular Price lb BONELESS BEEF ROASTS 1 Blade Short Rib or lb Shoulder Pot Roasts I 48 T FROM CANADA QUAD A PREVIOUSLY I SHOP AP FOR QUALITY SERVICE We pick the best So you can too Did you know that is not just a butcher shop with its hundreds of cuts of fresh beef pork lamb veal and poultry AP IS MANY SHOPS IN ONE TOWN CLUB WIENERS Mb vac Blade Steaks Side Spare Ribs MILES MAC A CHEESE CHICKEN Burns 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