Outside Lonetree Canyon

Glenn Gould : The Well-Tempered Clavier (1)

Glenn Gould: The Well-Tempered Clavier (2)

Glenn Gould plays plenty of J.S. Bach

When on the island
I sometimes imagined
an inverse world,
in which concert halls
would be turned over
to the sounds of rain
and the rustling of winds
while in the treetops
and on the weirs and behind
the walls of factories,
sonatas and symphonies
would ring out;
in a world such as this
the damp on the plastering
of walls would probably
form coherent text
while the pages of books
would be covered
with indistinct marks.
--Michal Ajvaz