what movie did you last watch?

[Dekalb_Blues]

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No. 12. "Passion According to Gould"



No. 6. "Hamburg"



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty_Two...lenn_Gould

Most of this film may be found on YouTube, e.g. 
https://www.youtube.com/user/booksontria...shelf_id=1
[Note that the mighty SMG corporation, following standard evil-corporate-free-info-denial
logic, strives to either blacklist clips of its films outright or, more cunningly, allows multi-part
presentations like this one -- minus one of the parts, of course.]


[Edit 26Mar18 -- just found: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlI3Lq_opL4 -- The film entire. Sacré bleu! Miraculeux! ]

Re. the actual man (who might perhaps be approached in today's paradigm as an extremely
superiorly-functioning Aspergersite of daunting musical genius), there are many literary and
cinematic analyses of his enigmatic personality and idiosyncratically original (and often iconoclastic)
life-work; the following two-part 1959 documentary is an interesting early example.

In Part One, Canadian Gould enjoys a respite at his lakeside cottage on Lake Simcoe, in southern
Ontario. This is an aspect of Gould previously known only to the collie pacing beside him through
the woods, the fishermen resting their oars to hear his piano, and fellow musicians like Franz Kraemer,
with whom Gould talks of composition.



Part Two follows Gould to New York City. There, we see the renowned Canadian concert pianist
(at age 26 already a world-traveled recording and performing luminary) kidding the cab driver,
bantering with sound engineers at Columbia Records, and then, alone with the piano, fastidiously
recording Bach's Italian Concert.


(LOL -- Initially facetious characterization of the stellar artist as a young man by his RCA handler, following 17:57;
also, an interesting view of the driving effect of psychogeographics on musical aesthetics is advanced, with special
reference to my own little one-horse hick town, NYC)