[Of his friend the pianist Glenn Gould who ceased playing for live audiences, and played thereafter only in recording studios]. Gould feels far more affinity for the engineer than for a fashionable public that comes to the concert hall not so much to hear as to be seen. Gould’s argument is, in part, that by eliminating the concert audience he can play for the composer. It may sound a bit like Charles Lamb’s expostulation: “Hang posterity, I’ll write for the past.”