The Good News of Glenn Gould’s Goldberg Variations
The 1955 recording The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenaline but rather the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity. –Glenn Gould
Tag: J.S. Bach
The Beatitude of Playing Bach
Arnold Steinhardt, Violin Dreams, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2006 Like the hundreds of other people who had gathered at Saint Pius V Church for Dan Horkheimer’s funeral last August, I was moving between despair and disbelief…
Profession of Faith
“I believe in God—Bach’s God.” —Glenn Gould
Another Yom Kippur
Reading Koheleth Listening to Rostropovich’s Bach Drinking Stolichnaya Writing a postcard to Bella Balaban
Bach/Gould/Said
Bach’s music was for [Glenn] Gould an archetype for the emergence of a rational system whose intrinsic power was that it was, as it were, crafted resolutely against the negation and disorder that surround us…