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R: Greetings from a new member



Thomas,
thanks for these  interesting anecdotes.
Certainly many of us would like meet Glenn Gould.
Your parents really met Him "off record" as a moving experience and Their
memory is precious.
What You have told us permit to imagine a  meeting with our favourite
pianist and this is marvelous.
Thanks for this beautiful message
Welcome in the list and see you soon for another news

Valeria Massari


----- Original Message -----
From: Thomas Buckley <infinite74@HOTMAIL.COM>
To: <F_MINOR@EMAIL.RUTGERS.EDU>
Sent: Friday, November 30, 2001 4:10 PM
Subject: Greetings from a new member


> Hello everyone,
>
> P.P.S
>       Possibly interesting anecdotes:
>
>      My mother, as a 15 year old going to school here in Toronto, once
> caught a glimpse of a young, possibly 22 year old Gould in the lobby of
the
> Windsor Arms hotel, he used to stay there sometimes in the 50's, where her
> and her friend waited for several hours for him to come down from his
room.
>   I know, a little idolatry for you on both my part and theirs, they were
> both rabid Gould fans studying at the Royal Conservatory, from which he
had
> left only a few years before. They didn't get to talk to him though, they
> were too nervous, but my mother did say that he was quite shy, but calm,
and
> kept his eyes lowered. He was, of course, decked out in typical Gouldian
> fashion.
>
>     Coincidentally, my father was working at the CBC, (Canadian
Brodcasting
> Corporation-Canada's public radio service an absolutely integral aspect of
> our Canadian identity struggling for independence amidst the rather
> overwhelming presence of our closest friends and neighbours to the
South.),
> while Gould was there in the 70's and he used to see Glenn in the
cafeteria
> sometimes. Though they never were never formally introduced. He remembers
> how Glenn would still generally refuse to shake hands with people. They
also
> had the same technician, Lorne Tulk.  I thought that some of you might
enjoy
> these sorts of things, and I hope that some of you do. Okay, that was an
> exeedingly long 'P.S and P.P.S', so I'll say farewell for the second time.
>
> Bye for now,  Thomas
>
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