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Beverly Glenn-Copeland

Singer, songwriter and composer

Canada · b. 1944

Beverly Glenn-Copeland is a singer and songwriter who was born in Philadelphia, but moved to Canada in 1961. A classically-trained vocalist, he started his career making folk music, while composing and acting on children’s television series including Mr. Dressup and Sesame Street . Recorded using only an early synthesizer and drum machine, his 1986 album Keyboard Fantasies was discovered by a Japanese record collector in 2015, which lead to a revitalized interest in his work. Today he lives in Sackville, New Brunswick with his wife, Elizabeth Glenn-Copeland, and performs regularly. A documentary about his life directed by Posy Dixon, Keyboard Fantasies: The Beverly Glenn-Copeland Story , came out in 2020.

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Question How do you know when a piece of work is finished? Craft & work read 31 other answers →

I can tell you exactly and this is a really good lesson that I had to learn. The song gets sent in some format or another, and I add to it what I think is mine to add to flesh out what was being sent. At a certain point what I’ve noticed is if I get into this space where I think “Oh and I need to add this and then I need to add that,” which is not really coming from the song, but from my own ego. I don’t mean that in a negative way, but just it’s just coming from me, it’s not the impulse of the music itself, then inevitably it starts sounding terrible to my ears. I’ve lost a couple pieces because of that. My motto is to try to stay very sensitive to when the piece is expressing what it came to express, and that I have augmented to make sure that it can be understood, but that I haven’t taken it off some place that it had no intention of going.

Recorded Max Mertens, The Creative Independent, 24 January 2023 source ↗

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