<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post111559276996159535..comments</id><updated>2011-07-13T16:13:18.645-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Comments on Silliman&#39;s Blog: </title><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111559276996159535/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/glenn-gould-to-what-end.html'/><link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>24</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111705386038849274</id><published>2005-05-25T16:44:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-05-25T16:44:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>32 Short Films About Glenn Gould remains one of my...</title><summary type='text'>&lt;EM&gt;32 Short Films About Glenn Gould&lt;/EM&gt; remains one of my favorite films. I&#39;ve heard all the arguments about style over substance, but any film that makes me want to put classical music on the stereo and sit down and write poerty -- that&#39;s one helluva a film in my book. It&#39;s probably time for another viewing.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111559276996159535/comments/default/111705386038849274'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111559276996159535/comments/default/111705386038849274'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/glenn-gould-to-what-end.html?showComment=1117053840000#c111705386038849274' title=''/><author><name>Collin</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/03777180960376039699</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/glenn-gould-to-what-end.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111559276996159535' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111559276996159535' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1318193204"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 25, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111694258444283887</id><published>2005-05-24T09:49:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-05-24T09:49:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>The guy with asparagus syndrome stalks Bach by the...</title><summary type='text'>The guy with asparagus syndrome stalks Bach by the name of Glenn Gould.  Funny how such a name doesn&#39;t seem like a particularly aesthetic one.  I don&#39;t like music at all but this music was particularly intense and worked.  It was the first time I&#39;ve liked music since I heard Captain Beefheart&#39;s Magic Band do Bat Puller.  I watched the Gould flick last night and felt less like a vegetable after </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111559276996159535/comments/default/111694258444283887'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111559276996159535/comments/default/111694258444283887'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/glenn-gould-to-what-end.html?showComment=1116942540000#c111694258444283887' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/glenn-gould-to-what-end.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111559276996159535' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111559276996159535' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 24, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111626685476613330</id><published>2005-05-16T14:07:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-05-16T14:07:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>It was just on regular cable.  Not that I wouldn&#39;t...</title><summary type='text'>It was just on regular cable.  Not that I wouldn&#39;t praise NetFlix, in hopes our small amount of stock in it would return to the price we bought it at....&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I wonder more about his concentration on Bach &amp; fugues with the development of the sound pieces.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I wonder together with wondering about Celan and maybe Schwartz.  Then with contemporary &quot;found sound&quot;, sound poetry -- Adeena </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111559276996159535/comments/default/111626685476613330'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111559276996159535/comments/default/111626685476613330'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/glenn-gould-to-what-end.html?showComment=1116266820000#c111626685476613330' title=''/><author><name>Catherine</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/13873795426098106200</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/glenn-gould-to-what-end.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111559276996159535' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111559276996159535' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1618061927"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 16, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111609079242976230</id><published>2005-05-14T13:13:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-05-14T13:13:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Comparing Gould&#39;s radio work to Pound&#39;s is silly: ...</title><summary type='text'>Comparing Gould&#39;s radio work to Pound&#39;s is silly: no one would argue that Pound&#39;s broadcasts are amongst his most important work.  They are the semi-coherent ravings of a &quot;village explainer&quot;, and not much different that the broadcasts of Father Coughlin. Gould&#39;s &quot;The Idea of North&quot;--and his &quot;Solitude Trilogy&quot; generally--are acclaimed and widely heard sound  documentaries depicting isolated </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111559276996159535/comments/default/111609079242976230'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111559276996159535/comments/default/111609079242976230'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/glenn-gould-to-what-end.html?showComment=1116090780000#c111609079242976230' title=''/><author><name>peter</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16265963954337715983</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/glenn-gould-to-what-end.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111559276996159535' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111559276996159535' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1136741023"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 14, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111599296849804865</id><published>2005-05-13T10:02:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2005-05-13T10:02:00.001-04:00</updated><title type='text'>jot:I think you&#39;re quite right about the Gould fil...</title><summary type='text'>jot:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I think you&#39;re quite right about the Gould film.  It was a failure, but a well-intentioned, and not an unethical, film to have made.  I thought, with a bit more inventiveness, it might have been twice as long, with more abstract projections (as with the balls), and even stranger kinds of &quot;variations.&quot;  It WAS experimental, at least, not just a straight PBS documentary life.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111559276996159535/comments/default/111599296849804865'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111559276996159535/comments/default/111599296849804865'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/glenn-gould-to-what-end.html?showComment=1115992920001#c111599296849804865' title=''/><author><name>Anonymous</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/blank.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/glenn-gould-to-what-end.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111559276996159535' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111559276996159535' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-846577922"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 13, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111599294970986990</id><published>2005-05-13T10:02:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-05-13T10:02:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Not to nitpick. Just a couple of points. The 32 sh...</title><summary type='text'>Not to nitpick. Just a couple of points. The 32 short films are meant to correspond with the structure of the Bach “Goldberg Variations” that made Gould so famous – 30 variations on a theme book ended by two arias for a total of 32. We could get into all sorts of numerical, gematria monkeyshines over the number or his attachment to it (even to the point of retiring from public performance at the </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111559276996159535/comments/default/111599294970986990'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111559276996159535/comments/default/111599294970986990'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/glenn-gould-to-what-end.html?showComment=1115992920000#c111599294970986990' title=''/><author><name>Michael Harold</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11165160971360124629</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/glenn-gould-to-what-end.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111559276996159535' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111559276996159535' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-626236699"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 13, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111598808190834323</id><published>2005-05-13T08:41:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-05-13T08:41:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Sorry about double-send.  Techie query, if a perso...</title><summary type='text'>Sorry about double-send.  Techie query, if a person does this is there a way to get rid of the duplicate text?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111559276996159535/comments/default/111598808190834323'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111559276996159535/comments/default/111598808190834323'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/glenn-gould-to-what-end.html?showComment=1115988060000#c111598808190834323' title=''/><author><name>JOT</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/blank.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/glenn-gould-to-what-end.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111559276996159535' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111559276996159535' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-846577922"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 13, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111598782671779503</id><published>2005-05-13T08:37:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2005-05-13T08:37:00.001-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111559276996159535/comments/default/111598782671779503'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111559276996159535/comments/default/111598782671779503'/><author><name>JOT</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/blank.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/glenn-gould-to-what-end.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111559276996159535' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111559276996159535' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name='blogger.contentRemoved' value='true'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-846577922"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 13, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111598782359476800</id><published>2005-05-13T08:37:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-05-13T08:37:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>It’s a while since I saw the Girard GG film, which...</title><summary type='text'>It’s a while since I saw the Girard GG film, which has been widely admired.  I wouldn’t want to knock it entirely, though even its promising title participates a bit too cutely in an ‘I’ve read Wallace Stevens’ gesture (13-plus ways of looking at a reclusive blackbird?).  But it seemed to me to be an awfully one-sided take on its subject, and miserablist:  if you tell the story this way, </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111559276996159535/comments/default/111598782359476800'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111559276996159535/comments/default/111598782359476800'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/glenn-gould-to-what-end.html?showComment=1115987820000#c111598782359476800' title=''/><author><name>JOT</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/blank.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/glenn-gould-to-what-end.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111559276996159535' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111559276996159535' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-846577922"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 13, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111598745623354637</id><published>2005-05-13T08:30:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-05-13T08:30:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>It&#39;s funny to think about Calder&#39;s oeuvre as senti...</title><summary type='text'>It&#39;s funny to think about Calder&#39;s oeuvre as sentimental by which I think you mean not that it expresses sentimental nostalgic sentiments but that it is a throwback to a previous time or something.  Wasn&#39;t sure.  I have to admit that where sculpture is concerned I am about as interested as I am in the sport of curling.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;What interests me in Christo&#39;s work is not so much the final </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111559276996159535/comments/default/111598745623354637'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111559276996159535/comments/default/111598745623354637'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/glenn-gould-to-what-end.html?showComment=1115987400000#c111598745623354637' title=''/><author><name>Anonymous</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/blank.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/glenn-gould-to-what-end.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111559276996159535' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111559276996159535' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-846577922"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 13, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111593702658630391</id><published>2005-05-12T18:30:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-05-12T18:30:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Also, if I remember correctly, Gould played a big ...</title><summary type='text'>Also, if I remember correctly, Gould played a big role in reviving attention to JS Bach&#39;s keyboard works, especially the Well Tempered Clavier (in which there&#39;s a prelude and fugue for every one of the enharmonic scales). He also insisted on playing only those sounds on the pianoforte that approximated the sounds available to Bach in the harpsichord/clavier days (no sustained tones, minimal </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111559276996159535/comments/default/111593702658630391'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111559276996159535/comments/default/111593702658630391'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/glenn-gould-to-what-end.html?showComment=1115937000000#c111593702658630391' title=''/><author><name>pam</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/10580503652531756432</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/glenn-gould-to-what-end.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111559276996159535' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111559276996159535' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-424548952"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 12, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111593550287448517</id><published>2005-05-12T18:05:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-05-12T18:05:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>For further Gould immersion after 32 short films, ...</title><summary type='text'>For further Gould immersion after 32 short films, be sure to check out Gould&#39;s own short essays in &lt;A HREF=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0679731350/qid=1115934604/sr=2-2/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_2/103-3306503-8755057&quot; REL=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Glenn Gould Reader&lt;/A&gt;. He conducts a self-interview somewhere in the middle...&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;For Bach, I personally swear by his 1955 recording of the Goldberg </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111559276996159535/comments/default/111593550287448517'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111559276996159535/comments/default/111593550287448517'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/glenn-gould-to-what-end.html?showComment=1115935500000#c111593550287448517' title=''/><author><name>pam</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/10580503652531756432</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/glenn-gould-to-what-end.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111559276996159535' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111559276996159535' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-424548952"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 12, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111593437960561373</id><published>2005-05-12T17:46:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-05-12T17:46:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I can&#39;t believe I listened to Glenn Gould&#39;s music ...</title><summary type='text'>I can&#39;t believe I listened to Glenn Gould&#39;s music for years and never knew he had Asperger&#39;s Syndrome. At the time when his music was more prominent in my life, I never took the time to know the man behind it. Thanks for this post. I&#39;m adding this to my Netflix&#39;s queue today.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111559276996159535/comments/default/111593437960561373'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111559276996159535/comments/default/111593437960561373'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/glenn-gould-to-what-end.html?showComment=1115934360000#c111593437960561373' title=''/><author><name>Pris</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/03970753027686923295</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/glenn-gould-to-what-end.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111559276996159535' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111559276996159535' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-2102071197"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 12, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111592686028348156</id><published>2005-05-12T15:41:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-05-12T15:41:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I cannot abide Calder, who represents the most sen...</title><summary type='text'>I cannot abide Calder, who represents the most sentimental concepts in sculpture imaginable. I tend to like something from almost art form, for example, I like this sculpture by Barnett Newman:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;A&gt;http://www.artdaily.com/Fotos/galerias/169/arte4-574.jpg&lt;/A&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;or this by Richard Serra&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;A&gt;http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/irvinem/visualarts/museums/</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111559276996159535/comments/default/111592686028348156'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111559276996159535/comments/default/111592686028348156'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/glenn-gould-to-what-end.html?showComment=1115926860000#c111592686028348156' title=''/><author><name>Ron</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09250950725876683923</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/glenn-gould-to-what-end.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111559276996159535' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111559276996159535' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 12, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111592579561877176</id><published>2005-05-12T15:23:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-05-12T15:23:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Now I remember that you said sculpture.  Sculpture...</title><summary type='text'>Now I remember that you said sculpture.  Sculpture is a real pain, too.   &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;But I do like Nikki de Saint-Phalle&#39;s Fountain outside the Pompidou and perhaps Calder&#39;s mobiles because at least they MOVE.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Nothing worse than something that just sits there is there?  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;But then I do like Jean Arp&#39;s sculptures.  It&#39;s fun to close your eyes and fondle them.  They are perfectly </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111559276996159535/comments/default/111592579561877176'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111559276996159535/comments/default/111592579561877176'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/glenn-gould-to-what-end.html?showComment=1115925780000#c111592579561877176' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/glenn-gould-to-what-end.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111559276996159535' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111559276996159535' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 12, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111592554310329731</id><published>2005-05-12T15:19:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-05-12T15:19:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I ordered the film this morning although I know ne...</title><summary type='text'>I ordered the film this morning although I know next to nothing about music.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I wonder of the arts which you feel the least closest to?  For me it is music.  I can sing decently I am told so it isn&#39;t that I have a bad ear or anything, I just don&#39;t like music by itself.  I do like it when it is in the background of a movie and people are walking on the street.  I just don&#39;t like music by</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111559276996159535/comments/default/111592554310329731'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111559276996159535/comments/default/111592554310329731'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/glenn-gould-to-what-end.html?showComment=1115925540000#c111592554310329731' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/glenn-gould-to-what-end.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111559276996159535' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111559276996159535' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 12, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111591129753351136</id><published>2005-05-12T11:21:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-05-12T11:21:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Re: Gould:One thing you don&#39;t make clear in the bl...</title><summary type='text'>Re: Gould:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;One thing you don&#39;t make clear in the blog, is the cause for all the excitement in the first place, which was GG&#39;s nearly inhuman skills on the keyboard, and his genius at interpreting the spirit of Bach, preeminently, and to a lesser degree, other notable classical works.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I&#39;ve been a student of the keyboard for many years, and compose daily on it.  Until it went </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111559276996159535/comments/default/111591129753351136'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111559276996159535/comments/default/111591129753351136'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/glenn-gould-to-what-end.html?showComment=1115911260000#c111591129753351136' title=''/><author><name>Anonymous</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/blank.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/glenn-gould-to-what-end.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111559276996159535' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111559276996159535' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-846577922"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 12, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111591008211490147</id><published>2005-05-12T11:01:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-05-12T11:01:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>The word&#39;s to Clark&#39;s song (see the link in the bl...</title><summary type='text'>The word&#39;s to Clark&#39;s song (see the link in the blog) are virtually a synopsis of that part of the motion picture:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;When you&#39;re alone and life is making you lonely&lt;BR/&gt;You can always go...downtown&lt;BR/&gt;When you&#39;ve got worries, all the noise and the hurry&lt;BR/&gt;Seems to help, I know...downtown&lt;BR/&gt;Just listen to the music of the traffic in the city&lt;BR/&gt;Linger on the sidewalk where the neon </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111559276996159535/comments/default/111591008211490147'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111559276996159535/comments/default/111591008211490147'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/glenn-gould-to-what-end.html?showComment=1115910060000#c111591008211490147' title=''/><author><name>Ron</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09250950725876683923</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/glenn-gould-to-what-end.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111559276996159535' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111559276996159535' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 12, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111590989192039383</id><published>2005-05-12T10:58:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-05-12T10:58:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>The central unresolved formal dilemma in Grenier&#39;s...</title><summary type='text'>The central unresolved formal dilemma in Grenier&#39;s work at present is the tension that exists between the imaginative exploration of theoretical (two dimensional) space via colored lines, which are, or are in the act of becoming &quot;words&quot;, and his insistence on the physical fact (act) of the hand recording in notebook.  Bob&#39;s refusal to liberate his imagination from the pedestrian notebook--his </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111559276996159535/comments/default/111590989192039383'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111559276996159535/comments/default/111590989192039383'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/glenn-gould-to-what-end.html?showComment=1115909880000#c111590989192039383' title=''/><author><name>Anonymous</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/blank.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/glenn-gould-to-what-end.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111559276996159535' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111559276996159535' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-846577922"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 12, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111590765925187452</id><published>2005-05-12T10:20:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-05-12T10:20:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>&quot;Truck Stop&quot; is also my favorite scene from the fi...</title><summary type='text'>&lt;I&gt;&quot;Truck Stop&quot;&lt;/I&gt; is also my favorite scene from the film.  I am not familiar with Apollinaire&#39;s poem &lt;I&gt;&quot;Lundi rue Christine&quot;&lt;/I&gt; but now am mighty curious to read it.  I was in the Borders near my house the other day, and I came across a copy of &lt;I&gt;&quot;Le Style Apollinaire, The Writing of Guillaume Apollinaire&quot;&lt;/I&gt; by Louis Zukofsky.  I had been thinking of going back to get it.  Does Zukofsky </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111559276996159535/comments/default/111590765925187452'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111559276996159535/comments/default/111590765925187452'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/glenn-gould-to-what-end.html?showComment=1115907600000#c111590765925187452' title=''/><author><name>steve nomansland</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/blank.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/glenn-gould-to-what-end.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111559276996159535' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111559276996159535' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-846577922"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 12, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111590654007089586</id><published>2005-05-12T10:02:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-05-12T10:02:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Re the presence of the song &quot;Downtown&quot; in the movi...</title><summary type='text'>Re the presence of the song &quot;Downtown&quot; in the movie-during the late 60s when there was so much talk and writing amongst people devoted to classical music about the virtues and breakthroughs of Beatles records, Beach Boys records, etc., Gould was notorious for an analytical essay speaking of the beauty and sophistication of Petula Clark&#39;s recording of &quot;Downtown&quot;.  Many thought Gould wasn&#39;t being </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111559276996159535/comments/default/111590654007089586'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111559276996159535/comments/default/111590654007089586'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/glenn-gould-to-what-end.html?showComment=1115906520000#c111590654007089586' title=''/><author><name>Stephen Baraban</name><uri>http://stephen_baraban@yahoo.com</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/blank.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/glenn-gould-to-what-end.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111559276996159535' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111559276996159535' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-846577922"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 12, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111590384404396698</id><published>2005-05-12T09:17:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-05-12T09:17:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Hello,Thank you for this article specifically ment...</title><summary type='text'>Hello,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Thank you for this article specifically mentioning Asperger&#39;s Syndrome. My son Alexander was diagnosed with this a couple years ago. I always knew my son was/is brilliant even though his teachers did not. He is going to study to be a welder and design hand made swords. He is also an animater. He is 17 years old.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Didi</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111559276996159535/comments/default/111590384404396698'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111559276996159535/comments/default/111590384404396698'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/glenn-gould-to-what-end.html?showComment=1115903820000#c111590384404396698' title=''/><author><name>didi</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/06288027001698618040</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/glenn-gould-to-what-end.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111559276996159535' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111559276996159535' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1981626831"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 12, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111590370799822525</id><published>2005-05-12T09:15:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-05-12T09:15:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>At the back of Otto Friedrich&#39;s Gould book (don&#39;t ...</title><summary type='text'>At the back of Otto Friedrich&#39;s Gould book (don&#39;t have the exact title at hand at the moment) you&#39;ll find a list of Gould&#39;s public concerts and what he played at them. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;My own Gould experience was attending his performance at Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware, Ohio, back in nineteen-fifty-something. And, while I didn&#39;t meet Gould myself, the guy across the hall from me in the house I </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111559276996159535/comments/default/111590370799822525'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111559276996159535/comments/default/111590370799822525'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/glenn-gould-to-what-end.html?showComment=1115903700000#c111590370799822525' title=''/><author><name>Halvard Johnson</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/blank.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/glenn-gould-to-what-end.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111559276996159535' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111559276996159535' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-846577922"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 12, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111590321565625311</id><published>2005-05-12T09:06:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-05-12T09:06:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I saw &quot;32 Films&quot; about six years ago, and was equa...</title><summary type='text'>I saw &quot;32 Films&quot; about six years ago, and was equally impressed. One could argue it&#39;s a typical &quot;artist suffers for his art&quot; story, but the narrative (or lack) never makes that trope explicit.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Your reflections also remind me of Diane Wakoski&#39;s contention that the subject determines the form of a poem (I&#39;m paraphrasing).  This film seems an excellent example of that.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111559276996159535/comments/default/111590321565625311'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/111559276996159535/comments/default/111590321565625311'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/glenn-gould-to-what-end.html?showComment=1115903160000#c111590321565625311' title=''/><author><name>James</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/02180536581514465000</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/05/glenn-gould-to-what-end.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-111559276996159535' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/111559276996159535' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-2122468508"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 12, 2005"/></entry></feed>