Chiropractic History Assignment Glenn Gould – his legacy to chiropractic 2 13 A CANADIAN GREAT Steve Zoltai is the collections de- velopment librarian and archivist for CMCC and was previously the Assistant Executive Director of the Health Sciences Information Con- sortium of Toronto.He has worked for several public and private libraries and with the University of Toronto Archives. Steve comes by his interest in things historical honestly – he worked as a field archeologist for the Province of Manitoba.He can be contacted at [email protected]. He abhorred physical contact, was terrifi ed of germs, hated airplanes and live audiences and shunned sunlight. He wore heavy sweaters, scarves, gloves and overcoats even in the hottest weather and crouched below the keyboard precisely fourteen inches from the fl oor on a chair his father built, refusing to use any other his entire life. He preferred the obscure 17th century English composer Orlando Gibbons to Mozart and was famously known for cancelling performances at the last minute when he was the featured solo- ist. Genius, eccentric, hypochondriac, recluse, visionary, Glenn Gould was one of the greatest piano virtuosos of the 20th century and a uniquely Canadian cultural icon. His radical reinterpretation of classical works shocked and captivated the world and his ex- ploration of distinctly Canadian themes enthralled a nation. HEALTH: BREAKFAST AT FRAN’S Gould’s health concerns, many imaginary, are almost as well known as his eccen- tricities – and were often related. Gould was the archetypical eccentric genius and an Answers to September’s CHA teaser Photo 1: Reverse view of Ruth Abernethy’s bronze Gould in front of the CBC building, Toronto. Photo 2: Massey Hall, the site of Gould’s 1946 debut as soloist with orchestra at a Toronto Conservatory concert performing Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto. Photo 3: Gould’s Medical Electric Company portable ultrasound unit. 30 • CANADIAN CHIROPRACTOR | OCTOBER 2008 www.canadianchiropractor.ca Photo by Rob Catlin Steve Zoltai feature
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