Mount Pleasant Cemetery
Historic garden cemetery with winding carriage drives, rare trees, and the graves of statesmen and artists.
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Mount Pleasant Cemetery leads you to the grave of pianist Glenn Gould, marked by six carved bars from Bach's Goldberg Variations. The guide follows his rise to fame in the 1960s and the startling choice, at just thirty-one, to abandon live performance for the isolation of the recording studio. He wrapped himself in scarves and gloves even in summer and phoned friends at three in the morning to talk for hours, terrified of germs and obsessive about his hands.
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