GlennGould
is a semi-annual magazine devoted to the legendary Canadian pianist,
writer, composer, and broadcaster Glenn Gould (1932-1982). First published
in 1995, it appeals to both Gould fans and music scholars, and over
the years has found subscribers in over forty countries.
The magazine's first priority is to disseminate previously unpublished
texts by Gould; essays, scripts for radio and television, program
notes, lectures, interviews, humour, and so on, as well as letters,
diaries, and other private writings. It publishes a wide range of
articles about Gould, too, most of them previously unpublished,
many of them specially commissioned, and including articles that touch
only indirectly on Gould but deal with issues that were important
to him or that broaden our understanding of his life, work, and thought.
The magazine also offers documentary history in the form of reprinted
reviews, profiles, and other biographical texts from Gould's own lifetime,
and offers reportage in the form of reviews of new books, recordings,
broadcasts, conferences, and so on;keeping track of the expanding
cottage industry around Gould.
All texts
are illustrated generously with photographs and facsimiles of concert
programs, album covers, compositional manuscripts, workings papers,
juvenilia, and other archival documents, most of them previously unpublished
and drawn from Gould's papers in the Library and Archives Canada,
in Ottawa.
GlennGould
is published by the University of Toronto Press under license from
the Glenn Gould Foundation, which was established in 1983 to honour
and perpetuate Gould's memory and to initiate projects inspired by
his visionary ideas, particularly those involving the communication
of music through the electronic media. The magazine enjoys the cooperation
of the Estate of Glenn Gould, and of institutions closely associated
with Gould's work, including the Library and Archives Canada, the
CBC, the record label Sony BMG Masterworks, and the music publisher
Schott.
For details
about back issues of GlennGould, as well as a blog that serves
as a supplement to the magazine, see the Glenn Gould Foundation Web
site at www.glenngould.ca.
ISSN
1201-821X
Editor
Kevin
Bazzana, the founding editor of GlennGould, lives in Brentwood
Bay, British Columbia, and holds a Ph.D. in music history from the
University of California at Berkeley. He is the author of Glenn
Gould: The Performer in the Work (1997), a study of Gould's performance
practices and aesthetic ideas, and of Wondrous Strange: The Life
and Art of Glenn Gould (2003), which won the Toronto Book Award
and an ascap-Deems Taylor Award and is available or forthcoming in
seven languages. His most recent book is Lost Genius: The Story
of a Forgotten Musical Maverick, a biography of the Hungarian-American
pianist and composer Ervin Nyiregyházi (1903-1987).
