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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 … More

audiobook, Canada, COVID-19, Direct-to-listener, From Stage to Page, Glenn Gould, Lockdown, Microphone, Narration, Ontario, Physical distancing, podcast, Recording, Solitude

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 … More

Baffin Island, Canada, Glenn Gould, Innerness, Isadora Zidore, Marianne Schroeder, Star Navigation, The Idea of North, The Path of Orion

An Ideal Audience

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

Disposability, Experimentation, Glenn Gould, Ideal audience, Innerness, Instant access, Jean Le Moyne, Matthew McFarlane, Neil Postman, One-time listener, Permanence, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Radio documentary, Recordings, Sanka, The Glenn Gould Foundation, The Quiet in the Land

What Glenn Wanted

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

Art Gallery of Ontario, Bach, Betty Madill, Birthdays, Canada, Compression, Counterpoint, David Milne, Glenn Gould, Grey, Isolation, Jessie Greig, National Gallery of Canada, nature, Ontario, Piano, Schweitzer, Solitude, stamps, Thoreau, Toronto, Uxbridge, Walden, Wawa

The Colours of Glenn

In my “Glenn” box here at home, I managed to find some notes I had scribbled down a few years … More

Black, Blue, Detachment, Dusk, Glenn Gould, Grey, Linden Frederick, Painting, Solitude

A Special Experience to Share

A few years ago, I helped put together a show for The Chamber Music Society of Mississauga. The event was … More

Canada 150, Glenn Gould 905, Glenn Gould Chair, Lorne Tulk, Piano Practising, Puppet

Bits of Canadiana

These past few days, in an effort to avoid caving to the fear and anxiety caused by the current global … More

Canada, Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, COVID-19, Dominion, Glenn Gould, Justin Trudeau, Northrop Frye, Pierre Berton, Pierre Trudeau, Pre-Cambrian Shield, Queen Elizabeth II, Solitude, The Littlest Hobo

Social Distancing & Glenn Gould

Much as I turn to the work of Glenn Gould for wisdom and guidance, the reality is that the crisis … More

Bach, Canada, CBC, Communication, COVID-19, Elderly, Glenn Gould, Goldberg Variations, Health care, Live stream, Music, Pandemic, Self isolating, Social distancing, Social media, Tempo, Virus

Ontario was “Yours to Discover” and so is Glenn Gould

For those of you outside of Canada, you likely have not heard about the license plate fiasco here in Ontario. … More

A Place to Grow, Canada, Doug Ford, Glenn Gould, Keep it Beautiful, License plates, Ontario, Piano, Plategate, Recordings, The Toronto Star, Tourism, TV Ontario, Yours to Discover

Moosonee Ontario, Anyone?

The other day, I was speaking with Lorne Tulk, who happened to mention a winter trip north that he took … More

Archibald MacLeish, Arctic, Audrey Hepburn, Blaise Pascal, Glenn Gould, Henri Bosco, James Bay, Mementos, Memories, Mind, Moosonee, morals, Northern Ontario, Polar Bear Express, Radio, Solitude, Wildnerness

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Penny Johnson Performs J. S. Bach Inventions & Sinfonias BWV 772-801

Ending to the Unfinished “Contrapunctus 14” from J. S. Bach’s Art of Fugue, BWV 1080 – by Penny Johnson

J. S. Bach Complete Two-Part Inventions, BWV 772-786 With Inverted Voices – Arranged by Penny Johnson

Let Go by Frou Frou – Arranged for Piano Four Hands by Penny Johnson

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