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Published: Monday, December 8, 2008

Updated: Saturday, November 14, 2009 12:11

Glenn Gould - 1981 Gould Variation Glenn Gould - Concord of Music Glenn Gould - Beethoven Sonata (Opus 14) Phillippe Herreweghe - Bach's B minor mass Sviatoslav Richter - Well Tempered Clavier Ivo Pogorelich - Scarlatti Sonata Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau - Schubert variations Jacqueline Du Pre - Antonín Dvorák's Cello Concerto

The Man Behind the Music

While Kevin Ohi, a professor in the English department, tried to narrow his library of tastes into a few favorites, for his entire life - minus succumbing to the lure of Blondie, Madonna, and Sinead O'Connor in high school - classical music has consumed him. Concocting prolific lectures in classes ranging from aestheticism to "thinking through film" to queer theory, what genre other than classical could fit his work? But Ohi refuses to listen to music while writing, claiming he can't manage to tune it out and can only listen to Bach while grading papers. Beyond listening, Ohi also plays the cello - an assiduous soloist for the moment, but looking for the time and people to join a group.

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