Word: romanticize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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But if Gould was a bizarre person, his many recordings also show him as a brilliant, unusual musician with spectacular digital agility. Best known for his Bach interpretations (he recorded all of Bach's solo keyboard works), Gould almost never played the music of Romantic composers like Chopin, Liszi and...
It is surprising, then, that CBS decided to re-release Gould recordings of Romantic-era music as the third volume of its ongoing Glenn Gould Legacy series. (The first two volumes contain music of Bach, Beethoven, Mozart and Haydn; a fourth, of 20th century works, will be released in September...
If this collection of pieces seems strange, so do Gould's performances. The actual sound of Gould's piano is quite unusual (the only piano he played for recordings sounds like it's one-quarter harpsichord), as is his approach to these pieces. Gould's renditions--with generally slow tempos...
Dissatisfied by their lives--one is unemployed and the other spends her days "ripping out chicken guts and stuffing them into little plastic bags"--the two girls dream about the elusive "something better" which, as always but perhaps correctly, centers around some new romantic conquest.
Leery of the disillusionment of the hopeless romantic, Elaine tries to emotionally back away from Peter all throughout the next day as she shows him the sights. (Apparently, there is something to see in Liverpool or so Director Bernard would have us believe.) Peter's a sailor. He's probably...