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Cultural Diplomacy Is In The DNA Of The Glenn Gould Foundation
When the 25 year-old Glenn Gould walked out on the stage of Moscow’s Bolshoi Hall on May 7, 1957, he became the first major Western classical artist to perform in…
Charles Officer
Charles Officer (28 October 1975 – 1 December 2023) Director, Producer, Writer, Juror for the 14th Glenn Gould Prize All of us at The Glenn Gould Foundation were shocked and…
Happy Birthday… to us!
September 19, 2023, marks the 40th anniversary of the establishment of The Glenn Gould Foundation! We’re feeling very pleased about what we’ve accomplished so far, and we’re looking forward to…
Gould on the Record
Did Gould know that one of his recordings would be included on the Golden Record of the Voyager space probes? Do we know how he felt about it? Was he…
On Gould’s views about Opera, Art Song, and other Vocal Music
Did Glenn Gould and Leon Fleisher ever cross paths with each other? How did Gould evaluate Fleisher? And how did Fleisher evaluate Gould? I just wonder whether the two great…
Gordon Lightfoot (17 November 1938 – 1 May 2023)
A Personal Appreciation Peter O’Brien Canada doesn’t have too many icons, and the few it does have tend to be begotten, not made. It seems now that Gordon Lightfoot, who…
Ryan Speedo Green wins 2023 Beverly Sills Artist Award
The Metropolitan Opera recently named bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green as the winner of the 2023 Beverly Sills Artist Award. The annual $50,000 award recognizes extraordinarily gifted singers with rising careers…
Musing on our most pressing questions
Inspired by British-Spanish concert pianist James Rhodes, a great friend of The Glenn Gould Foundation, a thoughtful and questioning app has just been released. The Daily Muse began to take…
Alanis Obomsawin to Receive the MacDowell Medal
The Glenn Gould Foundation is delighted to congratulate Alanis Obomsawin for her recent winning of the MacDowell Medal. Everyone associated with the foundation will know that Alanis was the 13th…
Ryuichi Sakamoto (1952-2023), a great friend of the Glenn Gould Foundation
The Glenn Gould Foundation is saddened to hear of the recent death of Ryuichi Sakamoto (17 January 1952 – 28 March 2023). Ryuichi Sakamoto was an innovator who pioneered electro-pop,…
The GGF Congratulates our Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards Recipients
Hearty congratulations go to our Glenn Gould Foundation board member John Kim Bell on receiving the 2023 Ramon John Hnatyshyn Award for Volunteerism in the Performing Arts, one of this…
The Glenn Gould Foundation Remembers Peter Herrndorf
Peter Herrndorf, CC, OOnt (27 October 1940 – 18 February 2023) The GGF is saddened to learn of the recent death of Peter Herrndorf, one of Canada’s most enlightened cultural…