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Article: Glenn Gould: The Ecstasy and Tragedy of Genius.
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- National Review
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- August 11, 1997
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Glenn Gould: The Ecstasy and Tragedy of Genius, by Peter F. Ostwald (Norton, 368 pp., $29.95)
Mr. Brookhiser is a senior editor at NR.
GLENN Gould, the eccentric Canadian pianist, died in 1982, but his cult lives on. When my wife and I went to a screening of a movie about him a few years ago, a man in the row ahead of us was showing off pictures he had taken of Gould's gravestone. The fan was also wearing gloves (Gould, terrified of catching cold, wore them when he wasn't playing, no matter what the weather). There aren't many movies about Rubinstein or Horowitz, and no one who went to one would go in costume.
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