Summary

Whether Gould's subject is Boulez, Stokowski, Streisand, or his own highly individual thoughts on performance and creation of music, the reader will be caught up in his intensity, intelligence, passion and devotion.

Author Biography

Tim Page's photography career began in Laos, where at the age of 18 he covered the civil war for UPI. He photographed the war in Vietnam for the Associated Press, UPI, and Paris Match. He was wounded four times, the final time almost fatally. He returned to England in 1979 and was the subject of the BBC film Mentioned in Dispatches. His search to discover the fate of his friends Sean Flynn and Dana Stone, who disappeared in Cambodia, was the subject of another film, Darkness at the Edge of Town, in 1991, more than 20 years after they vanished. Page's return to Cambodia led him to found the Indochina Media Memorial Foundation in 1994 and was the genesis of Requiem. His books include Tim Page's Nam (1983), Sri Lanka (1984), Ten Years After (1987), Page after Page (1988), Derailed in Uncle Ho's Garden (1990), and Mid-Term Report (1995).

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. xi
Prologue: Advice to a Graduation	p. 1
Music
William Byrd and Orlando Gibbons	p. 11
Domenico Scarlatti	p. 14
Art of the Fugue	p. 15
The "Goldberg" Variations	p. 22
Bodky on Bach	p. 28
Of Mozart and Related Matters: Glenn Gould in Conversation with Bruno Monsaingeon	p. 32
Glenn Gould Interviews Himself About Beethoven	p. 43
Beethoven's Pathetique, "Moonlight," and "Appassionata" Sonatas	p. 51
Beethoven's Last Three Piano Sonatas	p. 54
Beethoven's Fifth Symphony on the Piano: Four Imaginary Reviews	p. 57
Some Beethoven and Bach Concertos	p. 61
N'aimez-Vous Pas Brahms?	p. 70
Should We Dig Up the Rare Romantics? ... No, They're Only a Fad	p. 72
Piano Music by Grieg and Bizet, with a Confidential Caution to Critics	p. 76
Data Bank on the Upward-Scuttling Mahler	p. 80
An Argument for Richard Strauss	p. 84
Strauss and the Electronic Future	p. 92
Richard Strauss's Enoch Arden	p. 100
The Piano Music of Sibelius	p. 103
Arnold Schoenberg--A Perspective	p. 107
The Piano Music of Arnold Schoenberg	p. 122
Piano Concertos by Mozart and Schoenberg	p. 128
Arnold Schoenberg's Chamber Symphony No. 2	p. 134
A Hawk, a Dove, and a Rabbit Called Franz Josef	p. 142
Hindemith: Will His Time Come? Again?	p. 147
A Tale of Two Marienlebens	p. 151
Piano Sonatas by Scriabin and Prokofiev	p. 163
Music in the Soviet Union	p. 166
The Ives Fourth	p. 185
A Festschrift for "Ernst Who???"	p. 189
Piano Music of Berg, Schoenberg, and Krenek	p. 194
Korngold and the Crisis of the Piano Sonata	p. 200
Canadian Piano Music in the Twentieth Century	p. 204
The Dodecacophonist's Dilemma	p. 207
Boulez	p. 216
The Future and "Flat-Foot Floogie"	p. 221
Terry Riley	p. 226
Gould's String Quartet, Op. 1	p. 227
So You Want to Write a Fugue?	p. 234
Performance
Let's Ban Applause!	p. 245
We Who Are About to Be Disqualified Salute You!	p. 250
The Psychology of Improvisation	p. 255
Critics	p. 257
Stokowski in Six Scenes	p. 258
Rubinstein	p. 283
Memories of Maude Harbour, or Variations on a Theme of Arthur Rubinstein	p. 290
Yehudi Menuhin	p. 296
The Search for Petula Clark	p. 300
Streisand as Schwarzkopf	p. 308
Interlude: Glenn Gould Interviews Glenn Gould About Glenn Gould	p. 313
Media
The Prospects of Recording	p. 331
Music and Technology	p. 353
The Grass Is Always Greener in the Outtakes: An Experiment in Listening	p. 357
"Oh, for heaven's sake, Cynthia, there must be something else on!"	p. 368
Radio as Music: Glenn Gould in Conversation with John Jessop	p. 374
Prologue from "The Idea of North"	p. 389
"The Idea of North": An Introduction	p. 391
"The Latecomers": An Introduction	p. 394
Miscellany
Three Articles Published Under the Pseudonym Dr. Herbert von Hochmeister	p. 399
Toronto	p. 410
Conference at Port Chillkoot	p. 416
Fact, Fancy, or Psychohistory: Notes from the P.D.Q. Underground	p. 424
The Record of the Decade	p. 429
Rosemary's Babies	p. 434
A Desert Island Discography	p. 437
The Film Slaughterhouse Five	p. 440
A Biography of Glenn Gould	p. 444
CODA: Glenn Gould in Conversation with Tim Page	p. 449
Index	p. 463
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