Canadian piano ace Angela Hewitt on Glenn Gould

"One point that Bazzana makes in his chapter on "Gould the Prodigy" was of particular interest to me. I always knew that we were total opposites in nature, which is why our Bach interpretations are so different. Gould hated vivid colours (he once threw a tantrum when given a red fire engine as a present), preferring "battleship gray and midnight blue". Red to him meant violence. His first headache came after going to see Walt Disney's "Fantasia", which he hated for its "riot of colour". Sunshine, physical exercise, emotional openness, Italian opera, and more were out. His fondness for the Canadian north and for living by night comes as no surprise. It was all there from the beginning. "