RE: Glenn Gould:Tea?

[Martin J Smith <martinj.smith@bbc.co.uk>]

I'm sorry. It was an attempt at humour, not at restriction. Thought even I
have to admit that after a hard day's listening to Bernard Haitink (and
various bands) my early morning perkiness seems hard to penetrate even to
me...

Martin

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Jan Littrell [SMTP:littrell@interwork.sdsu.edu]
> Sent:	Thursday, January 21, 1999 3:23 PM
> To:	Martin J Smith; 'Anne M. Marble'; F-minor
> Subject:	RE: Glenn Gould:Tea?
> 
> Good early morning from sunny San Diego.
> 
> I believe Anne may emphasize either the phenomenon of the father humming
> or
> fact that he selected humming over singing (as is the case with the friend
> and co-worker).  If a point of grammar takes away her freedom to choose
> one
> over the other, I am unaware of it.
> 
> Jan Littrell
> 
> At 9:57 AM +0000 1/21/99, Martin J Smith wrote:
> >Good Morning from rainy Wales.
> >
> 
> >	ps Anne writes "Even my father hums along now and then"
> >	This should surely read "My father even hums along now and then".
> >True devotion from a new convert.
> >
> >
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From:	Anne M. Marble [SMTP:amarble@abs.net]
> >> Sent:	Thursday, January 21, 1999 2:24 AM
> >> To:	F-minor
> >> Subject:	Glenn Gould:Tea?
> >>
> >> Here's a weird question. (For those who prefer musical questions, this
> >> isn't one of them. Maybe another time.)
> >>
> >> In the novel "The Maestro," the character based on Glenn Gould drinks
> >> licorice tea. Does anybody know if Glenn Gould really did drink
> licorice
> >> tea? If not, what type of tea DID he drink?
> >>
> >> I remember reading that Glenn took a lot of vitamins, so it wouldn't
> >> surprised me if he bought herbal supplements as well. They weren't as
> >> popular then as they are now, but they were still available.
> >>
> >> But I wonder what he would have done if he learned that licorice can
> >> increase the blood pressure! If he drank a lot of it, or took other
> >> herbal supplements with similar effects, it could have caused his
> >> readings to fluctuate. And the fluctuation might have caused him to
> >> worry about his blood pressure again. (By the way, if you like licorice
> >> candy, don't worry. The candy licorice sold in the U.S. and most other
> >> countries is usually made from anisette, so it doesn't affect your
> blood
> >> pressure.)
> >>
> >> P.S. On the musical side, I am going to give a copy of Glenn's "Consort
> >> Musick" to a friend and coworker as a going-away present. She loves
> >> music, especially singing, and is actually familiar with Orlando
> >> Gibbons. (She recognized his name when I used it in an exercise in a
> >> computer course.) Maybe we'll have another convert. I've already
> >> corrupted -- I mean converted -- my aunt and my mother. Even my father
> >> hums along now and then.
> 
> 
> Janet L. Littrell, Ed.D.
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