|
Glenn Gould: The Ecstasy and Tragedy of Genius.
National Review
|
August 11, 1997|
|
COPYRIGHT 1997 National Review, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.
(Hide copyright information)
Copyright
|
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, ...
|
Thomas James Wise and the Trial Book Fallacy. (book reviews)
Magazine article from: ANQ
; ...xxiii, 244 pp. $76.95. Roger C. Lewis's Thomas James Wise and the Trial Book Fallacy adds yet another chapter to the double life of Thomas J. Wise. For over forty years, from the 1890s to the 1930s...
|
|
Thomas James Wise and the trial book fallacy.
Magazine article from: Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada
; ...Will the last word on T.J. Wise's abominable legacy ever be...hidden, despite the enormous Wise literature that has grown up...still not seen the end of the Wise story; and if Roger Lewis...items, once belonged to Sir James Knowles, the editor of the...
|
|
The Republic of Letters: The Correspondence Between Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, 1776-1826. (book reviews)
Magazine article from: History Today
; * Forty years ago James Morton Smith began collecting the letters that Jefferson and Madison...Founding Fathers; many of them are still so employed. Jefferson was wise to describe the new nation as a republic of letters. It was certainly...
|
|
OBIT - WILLIAMS, JAMES THOMAS JR. (TOMMY)
Newspaper article from: Roanoke Times & World News
; ...Anne Hope Shuford Thomas and husband Benjie...III and wife Ansley (Thomas), of Aiken, S...Williams and wife Kati (Wise) of Blacksburg, Va., and James P. Williams and wife...Charlotte and Bryon Thomas, Morganton, N.C...
|
|
|
OBIT - WILLIAMS, JAMES THOMAS JR., (TOMMY)
Newspaper article from: Roanoke Times & World News
; ...Anne Hope Shuford Thomas and husband Benjie...III and wife Ansley (Thomas), of Aiken, S...Williams and wife Kati (Wise) of Blacksburg, Va., and James P. Williams and wife...Charlotte and Bryon Thomas, Morganton, N.C...
|
|
We Are Concerned TV show presents actor James L. Hicklin's final performance of The Other Wise Man on Chicago Cable Channel 21
Newspaper article from: Chicago Defender
; ...actor drama The Other Wise Man which he fashion from...born Feb. 15, 1915 to James and Nellie Hicklin. We...Price, Count Basie, James Brown, Spencer Leak...Williams, Fred Wall, Thomas P. Lewis and Lillian...mother of former President James Carter. When he realized...
|
|
The Lamp and the Cross: A History of Averett College, 1859-2001/Rooted on Blue Stone Hill: A History of James Madison University/No Ordinary College: A History of the University of Virginia's College at Wise
Magazine article from: The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography
; ...Blue Stone Hill: A History of James Madison University * Nancy Bondurant...University of Virginia's College at Wise * Brian Steel Wills * Charlottesville...growth of the institution. James Madison University (the current...University of Virginia's College at Wise, there are three significant...
|
 "Post-Tribune (IN)")
|
Newspaper article from: Post-Tribune (IN)
; ...Chesterton -- Kyle Burkholder, Thomas Radtke, James Biggs Hebron -- Rebecca Wallace...Orshonsky, Briana Salas, Meagan Wise, Juan Burgos, Theo Cheek, Noah...Jessica Bunch, Stacy Newman, Kayla Thomas, Reno Frazier, Emily Percifield...
|
|
Principal Heads to High School; Henry Wise's New Leader Says He Is Ready for Challenges
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...principal of Dr. Henry A. Wise Jr. High School in Upper...had been principal at James Madison Middle School...and 140 staff members. James Madison, also in Upper...social studies teacher at James Madison for four years...said LaVonn Reedy Thomas, whose son will enter...
|
|
Underwood, Wise coffers running neck and neck: ; Raise and spend
Newspaper article from: Charleston Gazette
; ...gubernatorial contender Bob Wise raised $933,523, based...more cash on hand than Wise. The governor's campaign...a Bristol coal miner; Thomas Helbing, an Indianapolis...of the Arnold Agency; Thomas Blair III, a partner...racetrack at Chester; and James Krahulec, an employee...
|
Find more facts and information related to the
article "Glenn Gould: The Ecstasy and Tragedy of Genius."
