James Dean of classical music

Tuesday, September 29, 2009 - 03:28 PM

is what Tim Page the music critic called Glenn Gould. Privately they were close friends. When Gould had finished his legendary 1981 re-recording of the Goldberg variations he asked Tim Page, who was then a host of a music show at WNYC, to do an interview with him. Only, Gould would script it all! Casting his friend Tim Page in the role of music critic Tim Page and himself in the role as Glenn Gould and a fictitious actor “Sir John”.

The whole thing is so bizarre and interesting that we decided to post the entire interview here:

This might also be the last interview Glenn Gould did, he died of a stroke 6 weeks after the recording.

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Comments [2]

Sarabande-The Glenn Gould Project

Brilliant!! Will link to this on the main website :-) KF

Oct. 02 2009 05:24 PM
Michael Leddy

Thanks for sharing this interview. Just so readers know -- it's also available in A State of Wonder, the 3-cd set with the early and late Goldberg recordings.

Sep. 30 2009 04:51 PM

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