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For every album that Glenn Gould proceeded to release gave evidence not only of the possibilities of a more vital and rewarding pianistic repertoire (as well as the concomitant ongoing revelation of Gould's musical personality) but also of an interpretative audaciousness free from the preconditioning and preconceptions of all received cultrual canons and performance "norms."

And here lies the ultimate Gouldian paradox: by distancing and isolating himself from his audience, he got ever closer to and more in touch with it . . . and by allowing himself undistractedly to enter and surrender himself to his music, he revealed and gave both it and himself totally to us.

The temple bell stops -
but the sound keeps coming
out of the flowers.
- BASHO