Glenn Gould Foundation
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| Founded | 19 September 1983 |
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| Founder | Friends, colleagues and admirers of Glenn Gould |
| Focus | Music, communication, and arts education |
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Area served
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Global |
| Method | Donations and Grants |
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Employees
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2 full time |
| Website | www.glenngould.ca |
The Glenn Gould Foundation is a registered Canadian charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Friends, colleagues and admirers of the celebrated Canadian pianist Glenn Gould established the Foundation in 1983 after his death on October 4, 1982 at age 50. Its directors and supporters include many prominent Canadian and International cultural leaders and patrons, as well as Gould's personal friends.
The Foundation encourages others to develop projects that celebrate Glenn Gould and the field of music and communications. In this way, the Foundation has been associated with numerous broadcasts, publications, exhibitions, and conferences in Canada and abroad.
The Glenn Gould Memorial Foundation, as it was called in the first couple of years, was established in October 1983 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada to honor and perpetuate the memory of Glenn Gould. The foundation’s initial focus was on the explosion of worldwide interest in Gould’s life, work and ideas.
The foundation’s earliest project was the creation of the Glenn Gould Prize, which was administered by the Canada Council for the Arts until 2000. The first major task was to raise money and establish an endowment large enough to support awarding the Glenn Gould Prize every three years.
In 1985, the Foundation created the international Friends of Glenn Gould society and its two related publications, GlennGould, a semi-annual magazine and The Gould Standard, a quarterly newsletter. GlennGould published 13 volumes and ceased publication in Fall 2008. The Gould Standard is no longer published.
The first symposium was held in Montreal in 1987.
In 1992, the Foundation produced its first major international conference titled Music & Communication in the 21st Century: Variations on Themes of Glenn Gould, to mark the sixtieth birthday of Gould and the tenth anniversary of his death. Delegates and specialists from several countries met to carry forward Gould's ideas and investigations into the nature of music and its transmission. The five-day program covered themes that included Music as a Language of the 21st Century; Music and Creativity; The Technology of Future Musical Communication; and Music as an Instrument of Change in the 21st Century.
Papers and records of the foundation, from its inception up to 1994 are held in the Library and Archives Canada, under the archival number MUS 236.
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