Now, for the first time, we know that the intensely private Gould carried on an affair for five years, beginning in 1967, with a married German-American painter named Cornelia Foss. She left her husband Lukas, himself a prominent pianist and conductor, and moved her two children to Toronto at the height of the affair. A year before her move, Gould had asked her to marry him.
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Wasn't Lukas the conductor of the Buffalo Philharmonic at the time? I don't know if the years are right, but I seem to remember he was there for a while, and I remember him being described as "relentlessly modernistic". Imagine -- stuck in Buffalo listening to twelve-tone angst. have some sympathy for the poor woman.
You're absolutely right about the BPO connection at the time.
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