Author: Kevin Bazzana. Published by Oxford University Press, 2004. 1st Edition. ULTRA RARE: Dated, Dedicated & Signed by the Author in Brentwood Bay, British Columbia! Printed in USA by Oxford University Press. Like New Condition HARDCOVER Book. Almost new Condition Dust Jacket.
In WONDROUS STRANGE, Kevin Bazzana vividly recaptures the life of the famous Canadian Pianist, Glenn Gould, one of the most celebrated pianists of our time.
Drawing on twenty years of intensive research, including unrestricted access to Gould's private papers and interviews with scores of friends and colleagues, many of them never interviewed before, Bazzana sheds new light on such topics as Gould's family history, his secretive sexual life, and the mysterious problems that afflicted his hands in his later years. The author places Gould's distinctive traits--his eccentric interpretations, his garish onstage demeanor, his resistance to convention--against the backdrop of his religious, upper- middle-class Canadian childhood, illuminating the influence of Gould's mother as well as the lasting impact of the only piano teacher Gould ever had...
WONDROUS STRANGE, THE LIFE AND ART OF GLENN GOULD, by Kevin Bazzana, was the winner of the 2005 Nicolas Slonimsky Award for Outstanding Musical Biography, awarded by ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers)
For more info on Glenn Gould, see: Glenn Gould | The Canadian Encyclopedia
For more info on Kevin Bazzana, see: Kevin Bazzana | The Canadian Encyclopedia
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