1. [Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]

    “…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.

    1. aka, “My Country ‘Tis of Thee” ↩

    2. Hint: try singing along ↩

And, then, you were all...

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