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Cinematheque Ontario Lecture Series
Tim Page On Glenn Gould

Jackman Hall
Art Gallery of Ontario
317 Dundas Street West
(416) 968-FILM

Thursday April 24, 2008
7:00pm
http://www.cinemathequeontario.ca

Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post music critic and longtime Gould associate Tim Page will discuss the pianist’s career, film work, and thoughts about cinema and radio. Page edited The Glenn Gould Reader and wrote Glenn Gould: A Life in Pictures as well as the liner notes for Glenn Gould’s A State of Wonder, a CD compilation that includes both recordings of The Goldberg Variations. (An interview with Gould by Page is also featured in the set.) He has worked for The New York Times and Newsday as a music critic and culture reporter. His music criticism is collected in Music from the Road: Views and Reviews 1978-1992 and Tim Page on Music: Views and Reviews. Page is currently a professor of music and journalism at the University of Southern Carolina.

Followed by:

The Well-Tempered Listener
Conceived and Developed by Glenn Gould
(Canada, 1970, 60 minutes)
In this CBC-TV broadcast, Gould muses on the cinema and its open-ended polyphonic nature with host Curtis Davis, and performs several pieces from Bach’s The Well Tempered Clavier Book II: #14 in F Sharp Minor and #9 in E Major (both on harpsichord); #3 in C Sharp Major and # 22 in B Flat Minor (both on piano).

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