Glenn Gould is named as Apple’s executive role model

Glenn Gould is named as Apple’s executive role model

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norman lebrecht

April 21, 2015

It may come as a surprise to find an pill-popping artist who worked at night and slept by day being employed as a teaching aid at Apple HQ, but it appears the late Steve Jobs was a devotee of the Goldberg Variations.

So Boston Review editor Joshua Cohen has been hired full time by Apple to lead three-hour seminars in Gould studies for prospective executives.

Read about it here.

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Comments

  • rb says:

    the late Steve Jobs was a devotee of the Goldberg Variations.
    Which recording I wonder?

  • Milka says:

    Brings to mind ….The Emperor’s New Clothes and There’s a Sucker born every minute .

  • T-ARAFANBOY says:

    For once, a non-pop artist taken as a role model!

  • Eduardo says:

    According to the biography written by Walter Isaacson he listened to both but in his last days he liked the 80’s recording because “you can hear this is a man that has gone through a lot”.

  • Anon says:

    And the corporate monster keeps working on its fake image.

  • Boring Fileclerk says:

    “Think Different” was their motto. I wonder if Tim Cook will receive the Glenn Gould prize next time around…..

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