“…Glenn Gould reader…”

“…Life and art of Glenn Gould…”

Table of Contents: “…Burning books--The solitary outlaw--The quiet civil war of Pierre Trudeau--A search for Glenn Gould--Apprehensions now: Canetti and McLuhan--Acknowledgements…”

Table of Contents: “…Murrow and the proximity effect -- The screaming woman -- The museum of jurassic radio: sonic excess in Dylan Thomas and Samuel Beckett -- Radio as music: Glenn Gould's contrapuntal sound -- All things reconsidered: the promise of NPR.…”

Table of Contents: “…Claudio Arrau -- Vladimir Ashkenazy -- Alfred Brendel -- John Browning -- Alicia de Larrocha -- Misha Dichter -- Rudolf Firkušný -- Glenn Gould -- Vladimir Horowitz -- Byron Janis -- Lili Kraus -- Rosalyn Tureck -- André Watts -- Paul Badura-Skoda -- Jorge Bolet -- Youri Egorov -- Janina Fialkowska -- Leon Fleisher -- Emil Gilels -- Stephen Hough -- Zoltán Kocsis -- Garrick Ohlsson -- Cécile Ousset -- Murray Perahia -- Ivo Pogorelich.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Somerset Maugham -- Ezio Pinza -- Igor Stravinsky -- Mahalia Jackson -- Alexander Calder -- Sir Thomas Beecham -- Edward Steichen -- Dimitri Mitropoulos -- Irving Berlin -- Glenn Gould -- John Steinbeck -- Eugene Berman -- Eleanor Roosevelt -- Noel Coward -- Ben Shahn -- Burl Ives -- Oscar Hammerstein II -- Richard Rodgers -- Carl Sandburg -- Gertrude Lawrence -- Cole Porter -- Marian Anderson -- W.H. …”

Table of Contents: “…Naipaul -- Opponents, audiences, constituencies, and community -- Bursts of meaning: on John Berger and Jean Mohr -- Egyptian rites -- The future of criticism -- Reflections on exile -- Michel Foucault, 1927-1984 -- Orientalism reconsidered -- Remembrances of things played: presence and memory in the pianist's art: on Glenn Gould -- How not to get gored: on Ernest Hemingway -- Foucault and the imagination of power -- The horizon of R.P. …”

Table of Contents: “…Music in the age of electronic reproduction -- The prospects of recording / Glenn Gould -- The studio as compositional tool / Brian Eno -- Bettered by the borrower : the ethics of musical debt / John Oswald -- Plunderphonia / Chris Cutler -- Operating system for the redesign of sonic reality / Kodwo Eshun -- Part 2: Pratices -- IV: The open work -- The poetics of the open work / Umberto Eco -- Composition as process : indeterminacy / John Cage -- Visual sounds : on graphic scores / Christoph Cox -- Transformations and developments of a radical aesthetic / Earle Brown -- The game pieces / John Zorn -- Introduction to Catalog of works / Anthony Braxton -- V. …”
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