Archives for July 27, 2020

“Glenn Gould: On the Record,” a 1959 CBC documentary in which Glenn Gould is seen recording Bach’s Italian Concerto at Columbia Records’ New York studio:

(This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday)

“Reading the writings of a friend one often says, ‘I can almost hear him talk.’ But no one, looking at a picture, can possibly say, ‘I can almost see him paint.’ The art of the painter is too private for this, so private as to seen a skill of hand rather than what it really is, a skill of mind.”

Maurice Grosser, The Painter’s Eye