Word: gould
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...year and a half since he made his debut on the U.S. concert stage, 23-year-old Toronto-born Pianist Glenn Gould has inspired more critical kudos than many a performer receives in a lifetime (TIME, Feb. 6). Nevertheless, he has long cherished an ambition to forgo performing for composing. At the Stratford (Ont.) music festival last week, he put his multiple talents on display. Within one two-hour program, he appeared as piano soloist, returned to hear the first concert performance of his String Quartet, followed that by conducting Schoenberg's Ode to Napoleon Bonaparte...
...Gould's moody, darkly romantic Quartet moved several critics to high praise; it also proved that Composer Gould is still several giant steps behind Pianist Gould in accomplishments. Glenn Gould was 3½ when he first sat down to play. By 10 he was studying with the Toronto conservatory's Alberto Guerrero; at 14 he performed with the Toronto Symphony. Since then, his life has been rigidly circumscribed by the demands of his musical career. In his rare free hours (he practices and reads scores eight hours a day before a performance), Gould studies other composers (major influences...
...Gould practices some broad eccentricities-he is likely to bundle up in overcoat and muffler in the hottest weather; he usually soaks his hands and arms in hot water before he begins to play. His fussiness about pianos is legendary-once he insisted that the keyboard had to be lowered one twenty-fifth of an inch. He sings off key while he is playing. "The piano is basically a percussive instrument, and the performer must imitate the vocal inflection," Gould explains...
...Columbia's Carl William Ackerman, 66, dean of the Graduate School of Journalism, which has turned out such noted news and magazine men as Lester Markel of the New York Times, Co-Editor Bruce Gould of the Ladies' Home Journal, and Columnist George Sokolsky. A graduate of the school's first class in 1913, Ackerman became dean in 1931, turned the school into a one-year graduate institution with as stiff requirements and standards as any in the country. He helped found the American Press Institute and the Maria Moors Cabot awards for journalists who serve inter...
Civilian life, Sickles reasoned, was best conducted on the lines of a running skirmish. He got leave from his ministerial job to come home and tangle with Robber Baron Jay Gould over control of the Erie Railroad. Supported by immense fees from the Erie's British stockholders, Sickles marshaled his forces, led a cavalcade of carriages full of lawyers and stockholders and, flanked by squads of police, raided the Erie's plush headquarters and forced Gould to resign. In 1887 Sickles' father died, leaving him a fortune, and the general marked the event with a dinner...