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Humanizing Glenn Gould One Post at a Time

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Pacey’s Service Centre, Hwy 17

It used to be that the mere mention of Glenn Gould and his affinity for the town of Wawa, Ontario,…

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Marianna Schroeder Video Clip

As a follow-up to my previous post, Remembering the Nurse, in which I paid tribute to the memory of a…

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Remembering the Nurse

As a follow-up to Marianne Schroeder: A Portrait in Sound, my blog post from nearly two years ago, I am…

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View the Soo: Glenn-Inspired Webcams

Every morning, I go to the website for SooToday where I visit the webcams for my hometown of Sault Ste.…

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A Circumpolar Map Adventure

Glenn Gould enjoyed maps, particularly those devoted to the Canadian Arctic. “In my school days,” Gould recalled (as quoted in…

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The Quiet in the Land – Select Excerpts

Over the past year, my interest in Glenn Gould has waned. Perhaps it’s due to the seemingly endless stay-at-home order…

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Quality Solitude and Creaky Furniture

Two months ago, I created an audiobook podcast devoted to the forgotten stories and memoirs of female performing artists from…

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Marianne Schroeder: A Portrait in Sound

In this blog post, I present a recording that I made here at home. You’ll be able to listen to…

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An Ideal Audience

In a letter dated September 3, 1971, Glenn Gould wrote to a Miss Helen Whitney of NBC News, New York,…

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What Glenn Wanted

Recently, I came across a video in which Jessie Greig spoke about the fiftieth birthday of her cousin, Glenn Gould.…

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