“The multifaceted Gould is a kind of Rorschach test for Canadians. Would you like to see him as a digital prophet, the forward-looking recording artist and broadcaster who called for a democracy that would elevate the audience to the level of the performer and who predicted our mash-up culture? Or perhaps you prefer the child of WASP Toronto, the control freak who obsessed over the quality of his recordings, partisan of Bach and Schoenberg.”
Tag: 09.22.12
Discovered: Lord Byron’s First Edition Of Frankenstein, Signed By Mary Shelley
The book, dreamt up (literally) by the 18-year-old Shelley in 1816 and written at a fever pitch during the next two years, was lying at an angle on a top shelf in Lord Byron’s library.
Wally Cleaver, Abstract Artist
Tony Dow (even his name calls to mind the opening of the T.V. show) may be known as the older brother of the Beav, but he’s a serious sculptor now – partly thanks to a history-poor 28-year-old T.V. executive.
Bettye Lane, 82, Photographer of Revolutions
Lane, whose photos of the 1970 Women’s Strike for Equality made front pages and who was one of very few photographers of Stonewall, “made a point of lugging her equipment to every rally — whether she was paid to go or not — and getting to know the leaders.”