Word: musics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...MUSIC...
...course, plenty of strangeness here: Gould rehearsing a children's choir while crouched in a pew, nothing visible but his hand; Gould serenading the elephants at the Toronto zoo by singing them Mahler at dawn. Yet at play within him was something deeper than mere oddity. Able to read music before he could read words, Gould found he could learn scores most easily while listening simultaneously to TV shows or the roar of a vacuum cleaner. Always, his remarkable gifts were shadowed by a perversity that drove him to torture the works he disliked (notably, most of Mozart...
...himself, and with the luminous sounds he entertained in his head. In his determination to control everything around him, he scripted, down to the last pause, his "off-the- cuff" public interviews and devoted himself to a technology that would allow him, he thought, to create perfect pieces of music simply by splicing together flawless passages. His ambition, he once said, was "to try my hand at being a prisoner." He achieved that goal, perhaps, by locking himself more and more inside the echo chamber of his own mind, becoming, in the process, a man possessed, and not only...
...Berlioz is the founder of modern orchestration." (Music...
...entertainer. In a superb story called What Did We Do Wrong?, the first woman major-league baseball player hits .300 but slobbers tobacco juice, gives fans the finger and can't deal with the hot-breathed lunacy of a nation's love. In Meeting Famous People, a country-music star is hunted down and sued, then jailed and beaten after he $ refuses a fan's request for a handshake. In the title sketch, an ordinary couple become celebrities, in a way that seems chilling and entirely possible, when PEOPLE magazine, the morning babble shows and a congressional subcommittee hold their...