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Snail Mail and “the Glenn Stamp”

Here is my handwritten holiday blog post to you. I hope you will enjoy! ——If you enjoy reading my blog…

Canada Post, Churchill, Glenn Gould, Happy New Year, Highway 17, holiday cards, Lake Superior, Little Limestone Lake Provincial Park, Manitoba, nature, Ontario, Sault Ste. Marie, Solitude, stamps, The Idea of North, The Pas, Winnipeg

Kansas City Royals: A Gouldian Team?

Here’s a short post and it’s about the Kansas City Royals. Now, a big fan of competitive sports I am…

Bark at the Park, Baseball, Danny Duffy, Denny Matthews, Dogs, Glenn Gould, Kansas City Royals, Kindness, MLB, Piano, Sports broadcasting, TV

Vintage Gen-X Children’s Television Show Surprisingly Gouldian

Earlier this month, I heard about the passing of long time CBC personality, Rod Coneybeare. He was eighty-nine. From 1958-85,…

Bob Homme, Canada, CBC, Children, Generation X, Glenn Gould, Goldberg Variations, J. S. Bach, Mr. Dressup, Music, North, Rod Coneybeare, Solitude, Stories, television, The Friendly Giant, The Magic Mountain, Thomas Mann

Glenn Gould: Pilot of the Airwaves

Up until May 7 of this year, I had never heard of the song, Pilot of the Airwaves. Released in…

1980, AM Radio, Bach, CBC, Charlie Dore, Disembodied voice, Glenn Gould, Goldberg Variations, McLuhan, Moral, Pilot of the Airwaves, Technology, Toronto

The Seniors Speak

As part of my work, I often visit elderly people in retirement homes. I play the piano for them, we…

Aurora Historical Society, Aurora Public Library, Driving, Glenn, Great Depression, Haliburton, Interviews with Elders, Lake Superior, Let's Talk Aurora, Massey Hall, Orillia, Reminiscence, Second World War, Seniors, Solitude, Storytelling, Toronto, Uxbridge

Glenn’s VHS Tape

Housed at The Glenn Gould Archive in Ottawa are a number of VHS cassette tapes, some of which contain episodes…

Glenn Gould, National Geographic, North, QE2, Queen Mary, Siegfried Idyll, SS Normandie, television, The Magic Mountain, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Solitude Trilogy, The Superliners: Twilight of an Era, VHS cassette

Attic As Arctic

A home located in a cold climate is likely to have some dead space between the ceiling and roof.  Better…

Arctic, Attic, Bachelard, Baudelaire, Bosco, Cities, Daydreaming, Glenn Gould, High-rises, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Mann, Poetics of Space, The Boy and the River, The Magic Mountain, The Solitude Trilogy, Verne

One More For The Road

With many readers of Further North located in countries other than Canada, I decided to devote this post to giving…

Bach, Ernie's Signs, Friendly Massey Marathon, Glenn Gould, Highway 17, Husky gas, James Joyce, Northern Ontario, Red Top Motor Inn, Road Trip, Sault Ste. Marie, Solitude, Thoughtful, Toronto

This One’s For The Piano Teachers

Methods, curriculums and competitions abound.  Indeed, there is value in these institutions however, let us not forget that ultimately, music…

Art, Digital distractions, Glenn Gould, Listening, Music Lessons, Music Student, Musicians, Piano lessons, Piano Teaching, Practice

Do You Always Sit Solo?

If a pianist wants to sit lower than 17″ from the floor (the lowest level to which most standard piano…

Bench, Do It Yourself, Fabricland, Glenn Gould, Goldberg Variations, J. S. Bach, Piano chair, Recital, Rona, Sault Ste. Marie, Spruce, The Salvation Army

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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

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