Video from a recent Juilliard piano DMA suggesting (in part) that Glenn Gould's compositional approach to performance is a way to keep the spirit of improvisational composition alive.
Happily, this is all done without mixing simple genre codes or "jazzing up" a familiar tune.
This piece keeps me thinking. I got Arved Ashby's book from the library. A real find.
Ashby on Gould: "An imaginative mind taking an example of common-practice music and teasing out its textual possibilities to extremes, risking incursions into the bizarre and the arbitrary, and testing the various prospects for coherent musical wholes that may or may not have anything to do with the composer’s thinking."
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