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“…in the bathtub the other night…”
Warning: For deep music nerds only.
Studio outtake from Glenn Gould’s 1955 recording of The Goldberg Variations, in which he describes and performs a mashup of “God Save the King”1 and “The Star-Spangled Banner.”
I’ve tweaked the levels to make Gould’s voice more audible, but otherwise this is just Gould dicking around between takes.
If you’re as simple and musically unsophisticated as I am, it’ll help to listen a couple (or 50) times in order to really get what he’s doing here,2 but the payoff is wild.
This man’s work alternately hurts and blows my mind.
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I’ve been listening to Glenn Gould over the last couple of days. He tends to hum while playing, otherwise brilliant...
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