{"id":28775,"date":"2015-05-27T16:27:01","date_gmt":"2015-05-27T20:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/?p=28775"},"modified":"2015-05-27T16:27:01","modified_gmt":"2015-05-27T20:27:01","slug":"the-scoop-elementary-school-uncovers-composition-by-glenn-gould","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2015\/05\/27\/the-scoop-elementary-school-uncovers-composition-by-glenn-gould\/","title":{"rendered":"THE SCOOP | Elementary School Uncovers Composition by Glenn Gould"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Glenn Gould at the piano, ca 1946 (via Library and Archives of Canada)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A \u201chidden treasure\u201d was uncovered at Williamson Road Junior Public School<\/a> in the Beaches area of Toronto. Housed in a room full of keepsakes, the elementary\u00a0school found an early piece written by piano legend\u00a0Glenn Gould while preparing for the school’s 100th anniversary in 2014.<\/p>\n

The piece titled \u201cOur Gifts,\u201d is dated March 25, 1943 and written when Gould would have been just ten years old. Originally penned in support of the Junior Red Cross, it is scored for piano and two voices (boys and girls) in D major, and would have been sold to raise funds for the charity for 10 cents each. With so few surviving copies, the find represents an important historical discovery.<\/p>\n

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“Our Gifts”, by Glenn Gould. Score excerpt<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We are the boys, we are the girls of all the public schools<\/em><\/p>\n

We have a Red Cross Job to do, to furnish all the tools;<\/em><\/p>\n

So many fathers, brothers too, may have a chance to live<\/em><\/p>\n

When wounded on the battlefield, they\u2019ll live because we give<\/em><\/p>\n

Noble the deed is, though small, the gift of aught we bring,<\/em><\/p>\n

Whether of time or talents too, or any loving thing<\/em><\/p>\n

For love for fellow man gives hope, where hope before had fled<\/em><\/p>\n

And many men will live again, that little gifts have fed<\/em><\/p>\n

In a nice full-circle moment, the grade 5 and 6 class school choir of Gould’s former elementary school will perform the piece this coming Saturday at the Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards Gala<\/a>. The event will honour\u00a0Toronto actor R.H. Thomson with a lifetime achievement award.<\/p>\n

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Williamson Road Junior Public School will perform an uncovered score by Glenn Gould at Governor General\u2019s Performing Arts Awards Gala on May 30.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":28777,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[118,11,39],"tags":[1430,5469],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/05\/nlc003698-v6.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-7u7","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28775"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28775"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28795,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28775\/revisions\/28795"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28775"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=28775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}