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Beethoven: Bagatelles, Op. 33 and 126 (Glenn Gould, piano; Columbia, $6.98). Beethoven seized on these miniature piano pieces to perfect the art of compressing much into little. They could almost be called transistorized sonatas. Op. 126 especially finds the composer speaking with harrowing intensity and sharp intent. Gould, technically brilliant as ever, not only gets the point but conveys the intensity. The most eloquent disc performances of these works since Artur Schnabel set the standard in the 1930s...
...completely happy, but it's the best we can do in an imperfect world," says Gould. "If somebody has a better suggestion, we'd love to hear...
...course will be given again next year, but there will be no exam and, Gould says, there will be an attempt to clear up the confusion about "A"s and "B"s by establishing clearer requirements for each...
Last fall his unorthodox position became well-known when he and two other professors. Stephen J. Gould and S. Allen Counter Jr., taught Nat Sci 36, "Biological Determinism." The course was modeled as closely as possible on the uniform-grade system that Lewontin has used in his other course. Biology 152, "Population Genetics," with a few concessions to those students who, Lewontin says, "through no fault of their own--for reasons of med school or law school-have...
...Gould, who uses a conventional grading system in his other courses, says that Nat Sci 36 could not have been totally successful because the "utopian model of social change" that it was based on is not applicable to the Harvard situation...