music poem # 17

music poem # 17

just listened twice-through to
glen gould playing the goldberg
variations the pleasure isn’t only
in the bach (I can hear these
rendered superbly by wanda
landowska) but in glen gould’s
throaty humming – even singing –
while he plays – sometimes with the
melody sometimes a counterpoint
you hear the soul of bach
through glen gould’s playing
you hear the soul of glen gould
through glen gould’s humming

©2017 Jacqueline Jackson

This article appears in Dec 7-13, 2017.