Marking the 90th birthday of the late, great Canadian pianist and media artist Glenn Gould, we offer this preview of our forthcoming interview with Tim Page -- a journalist and radio host who became Glenn's close friend. Shortly before Gould's death at age 50, Page traveled north to take part in a discussion with him -- occasioned by the pianist's now classic 2nd version of Bach's "Goldberg Variations" -- that became Gould's last interview. In this excerpt from our full interview about Gould as story and storyteller, Page reveals that the pianist was quite savvy about his image and had no trouble leaning into his sometimes-eccentric nature if it meant engaging an audience more fully.

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