Word: goulding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bach: The Six Partitas (Columbia). Glenn Gould has more love of the living than respect for the dead, and if his wry understanding of Bach is occasionally impish, it is also inspired. Here his genius conspires with his artistry, matching a deep rapport with the spirit of the sublime master's music with a lofty regard for the voice of the piano...
Died. Symon Gould, 70, founder (in 1948) and 1960 presidential candidate of the American Vegetarian Party, who militantly opposed the killing of animals for sustenance, sport or style...
RECORDS BACH: THE SIX PARTITAS (Columbia). Musical paleontologists are invariably scandalized by Glenn Gould's approach to Bach: he plays the sublime master with more love of the living than respect for the dead. Such inspired impishness occasionally leads him astray, but here his genius conspires with his artistry, matching a deep rapport with the spirit of the music with a lofty regard for the voice of the piano...
BACH FOR HARPSICHORD (Columbia). Fernando Valenti has a lyrical touch for his mechanical instrument and just the blithe spirit to go with it. More musical than Malcolm, more guarded than Gould, Valenti plays a textbook Bach with joy and devotion...
That was a bit of an inaccuracy, since Sunday Editor Markel knows Gould quite well. "We're very good friends," mourned Markel. "At least I assumed we were." One final thought seemed to salve his feelings. "Gould didn't like Judy Garland, either...