{"id":77058,"date":"2022-08-30T16:50:06","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T20:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/?p=77058"},"modified":"2022-08-30T16:51:53","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T20:51:53","slug":"scoop-toronto-celebrates-glenn-gould-honour-90th-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2022\/08\/30\/scoop-toronto-celebrates-glenn-gould-honour-90th-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"THE SCOOP | Toronto Celebrates Glenn Gould In Honour Of His 90th Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_77059\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-77059\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-77059\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/08\/Glenn-Gould-day-2022.jpg\" alt=\"Glenn Gould\" width=\"1200\" height=\"628\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-77059\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Glenn Gould<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Iconic Canadian pianist Glenn Gould would have celebrated 90 years of age on September 25, 2022. While the noted classical musician, composer, conductor and broadcaster left the earthly plane nearly four decades ago, a series of free events presented by the Glenn Gould Foundation will showcase his work and contributions to the world of music.<\/p>\n<p>Glenn Gould was known as a singular personality as well as talent, often called eccentric, and a musical genius by most standards. His 1955 recording of Bach\u2019s Goldberg Variations is said to be the bestselling classical solo album of all time, and has been added to the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress, and his recording of the first Prelude from Book I of Bach\u2019s Well-Tempered Clavier was launched with the Voyager 1 Space probe in 1977.<\/p>\n<p>He was also a tech pioneer who quit his performing career in 1964 to pursue using technology to perfect and record \u2014 something that was virtually unheard of at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a look at how you can get in on GlennGould@90 in Toronto.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Glenn Gould Street Tribute! September 17<\/strong> | The Glenn Gould School\u2019s 2021-22 Quartet-in-Residence, The <strong>Dior String Quartet<\/strong>, Noa Sarid (violin), Tobias Elser (violin), Caleb Georges (viola), and Joanne Yesol Choi (cello), will perform 5 pop-up concerts of Gould\u2019s favourite pieces in various downtown locations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Day of Gould Celebrations<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The following events take place <strong>September 24<\/strong> at the Isabel Bader Theatre.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Film Screening &amp; Panel Discussion 11:00 a.m. \u2014 <em><strong>The Russian Journey<\/strong><\/em>, a documentary by director Yosif Feyginberg about then 24-year-old Glenn Gould\u2019s 1957 concerts in Moscow and Leningard, featuring<strong> Mstislav Rostropovich<\/strong>, and <strong>Vladimir Ashkenazy<\/strong>. A panel discussion on global cultural diplomacy follows the film.<\/li>\n<li>Concert 1:30 p.m. \u2014 The World Premier of <strong><em>The Lord of Toronto, His Pavin<\/em><\/strong>, a piece specially commissioned for cello and piano, and dedicated to Glenn Gould by Canadian composer and cellist<strong> Daniel Hass<\/strong>. Daniel Hass and pianist <strong>Kevin Ahfat<\/strong> will also perform Bach\u2019s Sonata in G-minor for Cello and Keyboard, BWV 1029.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Artificial Intelligence Demo<\/strong> 2:45 p.m. \u2014 Developed by Yamaha Japan, <strong>Dear Glenn<\/strong> is an AI deep-learning technology that, having analyzed Gould\u2019s style, can deliver a performance in virtually any repertoire, even those Gould never performed in his lifetime. A Canadian premiere.<\/li>\n<li>Panel Discussion: <strong>The Implications of Artificial Intelligence for the Future of Music and Human Creativity<\/strong> 3:15 p.m. \u2014 <strong>Edward Jones-Imhotep<\/strong>, Director of the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, and <strong>Akira Maezawa<\/strong> PhD (Informatics), Yamaha researcher in music information retrieval and statistical audio signal processing, among others, discuss the implications.<\/li>\n<li>Presentation: <strong>Glenn Gould\u2019s Technology Legacy\u2026Classical Music Meets TikTok<\/strong> 3:45 p.m. \u2014 Popular TikTok cellist and performer Andrew Ascenzo demonstrates how classical music can be a part of the TikTok universe.<\/li>\n<li>Film Screening <strong><em>The Goldberg Variations<\/em><\/strong> 4:30 p.m. \u2014 A screening of the 1981 film by Bruno Monsaingeon about Gould\u2019s re-recording of the Goldberg Variations. Introduced by Pulitzer-Prize winning critic Tim Page.<\/li>\n<li>Concert: <strong>Leila Josefowicz<\/strong> 7:30 p.m. \u2014 The Canadian-American violinist, known for championing new work, plays Matthias Pintscher\u2019s <em>La Linea Evocativa: A Drawing for Violin Solo<\/em> and Bach\u2019s <em>Partita for Violin Solo No. 2 in D minor<\/em>, BWV 1004.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Announcement of the 14th Glenn Gould Prize Laureate<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The announcement takes place Sunday, <strong>September 25<\/strong> at noon, on what would have been Gould\u2019s birthday. In celebration, the 17-year-old violinist, pianist and conductor <strong>Alma Deutscher<\/strong> conducts The Glenn Gould Festival Orchestra in a concert of her own music. The concert is free, but tickets should be reserved in advance.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>GlennGould@90 at TIFF Cinematheque<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>On <strong>September 27<\/strong>, in partnership with the Toronto International Film Festival, there will be series of film screenings and more.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Glenn Gould NFB Film Shorts screenings at 12:00 PM (free) | <em>Glenn Gould &#8211; On the Record<\/em> (1959), directed by Wolf Koenig and Roman Kroitor; <em>Glenn Gould &#8211; Off the Record<\/em> (1959), directed by Wolf Koenig and Roman Kroitor; and <em>Spheres<\/em> (1969), an animated short by Norman McLaren and Ren\u00e9 Jodoin set to the music of Bach performed by Glenn Gould.<\/li>\n<li><em>Slaughterhouse-Five<\/em> (1972) at 3:45 p.m. | Glenn Gould\u2019s first film score to the anti-war film based on Kurt Vonnegut\u2019s book of the same name.<\/li>\n<li><em>Thirty Two Short Films about Glenn Gould<\/em> (1993) 6:30 p.m. | Directed by <strong>Francois Girard<\/strong> and starring <strong>Colm Feore<\/strong> as Gould. The event begins with a live piano performance and includes a post-screening Q&amp;A with Francois Girard.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tickets to all film screenings can be reserved in advance <a href=\"https:\/\/am.ticketmaster.com\/tiff\/buy#\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Full program details <a href=\"https:\/\/www.glenngould.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"western\"><em><b>#LUDWIGVAN<\/b><\/em><\/h3>\n<p class=\"western\"><em>Get the daily arts news straight to your inbox.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"western\"><em>Sign up for the Ludwig van Daily \u2014 classical music and opera in five minutes or less <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/ludwig-van.us9.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=4f785cb3f9058f2393ccad035&amp;id=57cdb68eac\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>HERE<\/em><\/a>.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A series of free events celebrate what would have been the 90th birthday of Iconic Canadian pianist Glenn Gould in September 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":77059,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[39907,5,76,19,23,38,39],"tags":[1430,1434,27783,39858],"yst_prominent_words":[6715,12167,10183,9021,17034,19825,10182,31528],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/08\/Glenn-Gould-day-2022.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-k2S","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77058"}],"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\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77060,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77058\/revisions\/77060"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77058"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=77058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}