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No Jail for Woman With Pianist's Items
Associated Press 12.13.06, 2:33 PM ET
A college teacher convicted of possessing stolen items that once belonged to
the late pianist Glenn Gould was sentenced to 60 hours of community service
Wednesday.
Barbara Moore also must pay $5,500 restitution and help recover stolen
memorabilia and other items that are no longer in her possession.
Items stolen from the Canadian Library and Archives in Ottawa include a page
with Gould's signature written 18 times and a page containing an outline for
a musical composition depicting sounds of sea, wind and gulls.
Prosecutor Jennifer Martin accused Moore, 62, of Austin, Texas, of stealing
the items while she did research at the library in the late 1980s. In
October a jury acquitted her of that and other similar felony charges, but
convicted her of two misdemeanor counts of criminal possession of stolen
property.
Moore could have been sentenced to a year in jail but Martin did not ask
that she serve any time.
Gould's most famous recordings include his interpretation of Bach's Goldberg
Variations. He died in 1982 at age 50.