Bernstein &Glenn Gould
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Glenn Gould : Bach - Keyboard Concerto No.1 D minor BWV 1052
"Night in Saint-Cloud"
From the time he was a child, Eduard Munch knew that he was suicidal.
His mother died when he was five. His sister when he was fourteen.
Death floated above his early life like a dark angel.
His father, a Norwegian Army doctor, feared for his life.
Everyone was pleased when he took up painting, but not for long.
The images of gloom and despair that came forth
worried his father, who feared the worst.
When Munch's father died in 1889, Eduard fell into black despair.
He saw himself in a room in Paris. It is evening but the lamp is dark.
He is sitting by a window watching the sun set over the River Seine
He forgot to remove his hat when he came in from the street.
The only remedy he can think for a desperate life, is more life.
--Gary Lehmann
