example of the way to play the repertoire, all of the things that she would do. She said he thanked her very nicely and left. When she had occasion to hear the recording, after it was released much later, in every instance Glenn had done the opposite of what she had told him to do! She said it was as though he had deliberately done it differently!" Tim laughed. "This is what I call the Peter Pan aspect of Glenn Gould. He was just a willful little boy, at times. Although, to be fair, he was coming out of that Romantic tradition of the first half of the 20th century where one played Bach like Wanda Landowska with all sorts of sweep and grandeur on the harpsichord. Well, Glenn wanted none of that! And he wanted to be noticed! But it's true that he wasn't authentic." "But this puzzles me," I said. "We talk about his not being authentic, about his being a re-creative performer giving his own interpretation to the music, and then you have someone like Aaron Copland saying he was the voice of Bach. Explain that to me." "Bach's music is highly structured in its design and Glenn played the music that way. It was as though Glenn put himself inside the mind of Bach and played it the way Bach meant it to be played. But Glenn was not from any tradition. He wanted to start one. "One could argue that with Glenn everything was sublimated