40 episodes

A conversational podcast about the arts, culture, and contemporary society. We talk with artistic heroes working to create a more inclusive and mindful world, hear their incredible stories, and get to know what makes them tick. Our featured guests are leaders in a wide range of fields, nationalities, and lived experience, including musical composers and performers, painters, poets, filmmakers, actors, dancers, broadcasters, and more.

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    • 4.9 • 29 Ratings

A conversational podcast about the arts, culture, and contemporary society. We talk with artistic heroes working to create a more inclusive and mindful world, hear their incredible stories, and get to know what makes them tick. Our featured guests are leaders in a wide range of fields, nationalities, and lived experience, including musical composers and performers, painters, poets, filmmakers, actors, dancers, broadcasters, and more.

    Charles Palliser and the Power of Five

    Charles Palliser and the Power of Five

    Best-selling novelist Charles Palliser is best known for his debut novel, The Quincunx, a vast mystery set in Regency England that deftly combines Dickensian elements with contemporary techniques such as the use of unreliable narrators. Published in 1989, after 12 years of research and writing, this 800 page tour de force became an international best-seller. The Anglo-American Palliser was praised for his intricate plotting, vivid characters, and a portrayal of London in the early 19th century so shockingly realistic that Dickens wouldn’t have dared expose social conditions with such brutal honesty. Palliser has published four other successful novels including Betrayals, The Unburied and Rustication. Palliser’s newest novel Sufferance is projected for release near the end of 2023.
    Charles Palliser discusses his life, career and influences as a writer and educator.
    Charles Palliser:

    Wikipedia
    Penguin Random House
    Simon and Schuster

    The Glenn Gould Foundation:

    Official GGF Website
    Twitter
    Instagram
    YouTube Channel
    Facebook
    LinkedIn

    • 1 hr 27 min
    Cory Doctorow on Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech Monopolies Devoured the Arts and How to Fight Back

    Cory Doctorow on Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech Monopolies Devoured the Arts and How to Fight Back

    Award-winning science fiction writer, blogger and activist Cory Doctorow rallies the creative class against an ever-expanding industry of monopolies and monopsonies. Co-written by Australian scholar Rebecca Giblin, Chokepoint Capitalism unveils the tricks Big Tech and Big Content use to lock-in users and suppliers, eliminate competition, and extort creators and producers, and extract value so that artists can’t survive and audiences pay through the nose. Doctorow shares his thoughts on how we can recapture creative labor markets to make them fairer and more sustainable.
    Cory Doctorow:

    Website
    Twitter
    Wikipedia

    The Glenn Gould Foundation:

    Official GGF Website
    Twitter
    Instagram
    YouTube Channel
    Facebook
    LinkedIn

    • 1 hr 32 min
    As Glenn as Can Be: The Inner Life of a Brilliant Child

    As Glenn as Can Be: The Inner Life of a Brilliant Child

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    This month we talk to acclaimed children’s author Sarah Ellis and Illustrator Nancy Vo, who made the life story of Glenn Gould accessible to a younger audience through their new children’s book, As Glenn as Can Be. Sarah Ellis is an acclaimed Canadian children’s author of over 20 books and has won numerous prizes, including the Governor General’s Literary Award and TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award. For “As Glenn as Can Be,” she teamed up with the talented artist Nancy Vo to bring to life the story of Gould’s childhood in Toronto during the 1930s, to present a moving portrait of a solitary, deeply creative child who experiences the world differently from his peers, and finds liberating solutions to his challenges through technology. Go behind the scenes and listen to the thought and process behind the beautiful illustrations and story of the book and discover musical easter eggs hidden in the pictures.
    As Glenn As Can Be:

    Goodreads
    Amazon
    Indigo

    Sarah Ellis:

    Website
    Wikipedia
    Goodreads
    Scholastic

    Nancy Vo:

    Website
    Twitter
    Facebook
    Instagram

    The Glenn Gould Foundation:

    Official GGF Website
    Twitter
    Instagram

    • 31 min
    Wynton Marsalis and the Wisdom of Jazz

    Wynton Marsalis and the Wisdom of Jazz

    Legendary trumpeter, composer and educator Wynton Marsalis takes us on a journey through his early life and formative influences. He discusses his evolution into one of the most influential jazz musicians of our time, how he learned to love the pioneers of jazz, his triumphs as the director of Jazz at Lincoln Center, his experiences with classical music and how he brought all these elements together brilliantly in his own boundary-breaking compositions.
    Wynton Marsalis:

    Website
    Wikipedia
    Jazz.org
    Twitter

    The Glenn Gould Foundation:

    Official GGF Website
    Twitter
    Instagram
    YouTube Channel
    Facebook
    LinkedIn

    • 1 hr 14 min
    Colm Feore: Inhabiting My Roles and Myself

    Colm Feore: Inhabiting My Roles and Myself

    The outstanding Canadian stage and film actor Colm Feore is among the most accomplished Shakespearean performers of our time, but has appeared as everything from a mad scientist (Gotham) to a Frost Giant of Jotunheim (Thor) and from German rocket scientist Werner von Braun (For All Mankind) to a Renaissance Pope (The Borgias). Colm shares fascinating insights into his remarkable career, including his preparation for this year’s Stratford production of Richard III, as well as his incandescent portrayal of Glenn Gould in Thirty Two Short Films about Glenn Gould.
    COLM FEORE:

    IMDB
    Wikipedia
    Twitter

    THE GLENN GOULD FOUNDATION:

    Official GGF Website
    Twitter
    Instagram
    YouTube Channel
    Facebook
    LinkedIn

    • 1 hr 21 min
    Kevin Bazzana: Beguilingly BeGouldian

    Kevin Bazzana: Beguilingly BeGouldian

    Kevin Bazzana is the world’s leading authority on Glenn Gould, and one of the most perceptive, wry and interesting commentators on music anywhere. The author of the Gould biography Wondrous Strange and the past editor of Glenn Gould Magazine, he joins us for an insightful conversation about Gould, his continuing impact on the arts, and the significance of his 90th birth anniversary. This is another special episode celebrating GlennGould@90.
    KEVIN BAZZANA:

    Penguin Random House Publications
    Wikipedia
    Canadian Encyclopedia

    THE GLENN GOULD FOUNDATION:

    Official GGF Website
    Twitter
    Instagram
    YouTube Channel
    Facebook
    LinkedIn

    • 1 hr 26 min

Customer Reviews

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29 Ratings

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