Arved Ashby, OSU School of Music professor, will open the Autumn Semester Musicology Lecture Series with a pair of short talks:
Honoring Glenn Gould's 80th birthday: (1) Gould as "The Last Puritan;" and (2) Gould's Eccentricity in Context: A Pragmatist View of Musical Interpretation.
Dr. Ashby states, "Glenn Gould, whose 80th birthday falls on September 25, has become a favorite topic for scholars, journalists, and filmmakers over the three decades since his death. But many Gould enigmas remain. In this presentation, I will interrogate two questionable labels that have persisted with this iconic and popular pianist: the 'last puritan' phrase that Gould used to describe himself, and the 'eccentric' tag that critics have used for half a century to describe the man and his unconventional musicianship."
This presentation is free and open to the public, as are all Musicology Lecture Series events. Lectures are held in the Music Library (2nd floor, Science and Engineering Library, 175 West 18th Ave.) on Mondays at 4:30 p.m. Visit the Musicology page for lectures to be announced.
