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Bezig met laden... A Romance on Three Legs: Glenn Gould's Obsessive Quest for the Perfect Pianodoor Katie Hafner
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. A great book on Gould, Bach, Steinway pianos, piano tuning, Canada, and half a dozen other topics. A great read. ( ) Magnifica opera che appassiona più di un romanzo e che offre non solo un ritratto del geniale musicista, ma la storia della celebre casa produttrice di pianoforti Steinway. Il rapporto con la musica, le vicende curiose, le manie di Gould, le sue relazioni professionali e umane risultano narrate con quella accuratezza tipica dei ricercatori d'archivio in grado di irretire ogni lettore. cd 318 steinway & sons questa è la sigla del pianoforte che per tutta la vita cerco glenn gould. il libro riporta il suo immenso talento e la molteplicità dei suoi tic e idiosincrasie. la paura di ogni malattia che lo portava a mettere sciarpa cappello e guanti anche in estate piena. il fatto di non stringere la mano per timore di infezioni. la sua storia della ricerca del pianoforte perfetto pero' è legata a Verne un ragazzo semi cieco che con la sua caparbietà divenne dapprima accordatore di pianoforti normali e poi divenne colui dotato di un orecchio assoluto. il connubio con gleen porterà quest'ultimo a creare in sala di incisione vere e proprie opere di Bach venerate dal pubblico e dai crititci. A most unusual biographical study, this is a book about a musician and his music, but even more it is about his search for perfection. The author writes of a search for a piano that is more intense than anything I have experienced in my piano-playing life. While I have encountered several different pianos, from the old upright of my youth to the local public library grand and sturdy spinets at the University of Wisconsin School of Music, I have never obsessed the way Glenn Gould did. Katie Hafner makes the story interesting with details of the life of the piano, its caretaker and the marriage of artist and piano in the studio. The piano is a Steinway grand piano known as CD318. The caretaker, an almost completely blind piano tuner, reminded me of a piano tuner who maintained my own spinet for several years. The marriage meant that this piano became part of the history of music performances by one of the greatest pianists of the twentieth century. While the marriage of piano and pianist was not fated to last forever, that part of the story is best left for the reader to discover for himself. It is a story that this music lover found exceptional. And it is a unique perspective on the life of an artist notorious for his personal eccentricities. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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Glenn Gould was famous for his obsessions: the scarves, sweaters and fingerless gloves that he wore even on the hottest summer days; his deep fear of germs and illness; the odd wooden "pygmy" chair that he carried with him wherever he performed; and his sudden withdrawal from the public stage at the peak of his career. But perhaps Gould's greatest obsession of all was for a particular piano, a Steinway concert grand known as CD318 (C, meaning for the use of Steinway Concert Artists only, andD, denoting it as the largest that Steinway built).A Romance on Three Legs is the story of Gould's love for this piano, from the first moment of discovery, in a Toronto dept. store, to the tragic moment when the piano was dropped and seriously damaged while being transported from a concert overseas. Hafner also introduces us to the world and art of piano tuning, including a central character in Gould's life, the blind tuner Verne Edquist, who lovingly attended to CD318 for more than two decades. We learn how a concert grand is built, and the fascinating story of how Steinway & Sons weathered the war years by supplying materials for the military effort. Indeed, CD318 came very close to ending up as a series of glider parts or, worse, a casket. The book has already been lauded by Kevin Bazzana, author of the definitive Gould biography, who notes that Hafner "has clarified some old mysteries and turned up many fresh details." Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)786.2092The arts Music Keyboard, mechanical, electronic, percussion instruments Piano--about the instrumentLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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