Glenn Gould was a complicated man. He didnt like to practice; instead hed prepare for concerts mentally, running the piece over and over, playing with imaginary fingers. When he was a little baby, it was said that instead of crying, he would hum. He had perfect pitch and could read music before he could read words. So perhaps what you see in this video is just — for him — his way of playing. He could switch seamlessly from fingering the piano to a purely virtual music-making; he could move fluently from real to not. Or maybe what we see him doing is something we all can do — but geniuses get there more often — reach a state of total absorption. Gould in his living room, for some reason, reminds me of Michael Jordan playing basketball or Etta James singing the blues; theres a concentration, a zoning in, thats so deep it feels special, like a kind of ecstasy.
Posted on: Sun, 07 Sep 2014 19:46:01 +0000
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