Glenn Gould, the Canadian-born pianist, was as renowned for his eccentricities as for his dazzling, idiosyncratic piano work. Twenty-five years after Gould's death at the age of 50, his performances ...

Sitting comfortably in my living room, I had every intention of listening to the boxed set that had recently landed with a thud in my mailbox. For Bach lovers, Glenn Gould fans and pianists (I’m all ...

Just as Miles Davis' Kind of Blue was one of those jazz albums you saw in the collections of people who otherwise didn't listen to jazz, Glenn Gould's 1955 LP of Bach's Goldberg Variations stuck out ...

On the evening of April 10, 1964 — that is, 60 years ago Wednesday — the Canadian virtuoso Glenn Gould stepped away from the piano at the end of his concert at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre in Los ...

A young Glenn Gould’s passion for the piano and a sensitive boy’s view of “Carmen.” By Tim Page Formal education in classical music has largely vanished from many American schools. Yet young people ...

Rather than presenting a biopic with an arc that would naturally be presumed to move in certain directions, François Girard’s Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould (1993) approaches its fascinating ...

Sir Elton John has been named the 2025 recipient of the Glenn Gould Prize. A wide range of creative talents have won the award over the years. John is only the second to come from the (broadly defined ...

Last week in Toronto, that happy hypochondriac Glenn Gouldwas busy coming down with the flu, having dizzy spells, getting massaged, guarding his private life, and communicating with the world, as ...