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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...There was a time I was interested in learning the Goldbergs but I felt I was listening to either of Gould's recordings too much to consider it clearly. Now I feel I could approach it without so much of a "Gouldian conscience" weighing down...

Author: By Matthew A. Carter, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Interview With a Virtuoso: Pratt Discusses Life, Music, Glenn Gould | 11/21/1997 | See Source »

...anytime just to talk. In his elliptically eccentric little film, director Francois Girard composes a series of thirty-two short compositions that capture the intense peculiarities of the pianist's insanely tortured and brilliant life. The director's minimalist documentary style, while ostensibly unassuming, is as intense as the Gouldian world it unfolds for us on the screen. The film's fragments wrap us up and then just as quickly unwind--the detached psychological probing is as disorienting as it is seductive. Pain, passion and the just plain weird are glimpsed and strangely haunt the blurry liminal spaces between...

Author: By Tristan Walliser, | Title: Gouldberg Variations | 11/17/1994 | See Source »

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