Sōseki & Glenn Gould(PART 3 OF 3)
If you've got some time,
Please read one of the following artciles:
■"Diane Chatterley"
■"From Canada to Japan"
■"From Gyoda to Vancouver"
■"Film Festival"
■"Madame Taliesin"
■"Happy Days"
■"Vancouver Again"
■"Midnight in Vancouver"
■"Madame Lindbergh"
■"Dead Poets Society"
■"Letters to Diane"
■"Taliesin Studio"
■"Wright and Japan"
■"Taliesin Banzai"
■"Memrory Lane to Sendai"
■"Aunt Sleepie"
■"Titanic @ Sendai"
■"Birdcage"
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■"Roly-poly in the wild"
■"Silence is dull"
■"Zen and Chi Gong"
■"Piano Lesson"
■"Dangerous Relation"
■"Electra Complex"
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■"Covent Garden"
■"Fatal Relation"
■"Notre Dame"
■"Anne Frank"
■"Biker Babe"
■"Diane Girdles the Globe"
■"Diane in Casablanca"
■"Infidelity Neighbourhood"
■"Forest Bathing"
■"Enjoy Ramen!"
■"Sex, Violence, Love"
■"Halifax to Vancouver"
■"A Thread of Destiny"
■"Fujiyama Geisha"
■"Beaver Lake"
■"God is Near!"
■"Holy Cow@Rose Garden"
■"Vancouver Earthquake"
■"Birthplace"
■"KIFF"
■"You Love Japan, eh?"
■"Eight Bridges"
■"First Love"
■"Fright on Flight"
■"Boy's Movie"
■"From Summer to Eternity"
Hi, I'm June Adams.
Glenn Gould was widely known for his unusual habits.
He usually hummed while he played the piano, and his recording engineers had mixed results in how successfully they were able to exclude his voice from recordings.
Gould claimed that his singing was subconscious and increased proportionately with the inability of the piano in question to realize the music as he intended.
It is likely that this habit originated in Gould's having been taught by his mother to "sing everything that he played."
This became his unbreakable and notorious habit.
Some of Gould's recordings were severely criticised because of the background "vocalise".
Many listeners would find the groans and croons intolerable.
Glenn Gould: A Portrait (1985)
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Gould was renowned for his peculiar body movements while playing and for his insistence on absolute control over every aspect of his playing environment.
The temperature of the recording studio had to be exactly regulated.
He invariably insisted that it be extremely warm.
The air conditioning engineer had to work just as hard as the recording engineers.
The piano had to be set at a certain height and would be raised on wooden blocks if necessary.
A small rug would sometimes be required for his feet underneath the piano.
He had to sit fourteen inches above the floor and would play concerts only while sitting on the old chair his father had made.
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He continued to use this chair even when the seat was completely worn through.
His chair is so closely identified with him that it is shown in a place of honour in a glass case at the National Library of Canada.
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