RE: Glenn Gould:Tea?

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

Good Morning from rainy Wales.

I can't help with Anne's tea questions. But I did see a post here a while
back suggesting that the Glenn Gould breakfast at the Toronto gathering
should be planned around the pianist's own diet. I do think this is a great
idea and I'm sorry that it disappeared so quickly from the list. Perhaps
it's bad list etiquette to re-raise subjects in these circumstances, in
which case please accept my apologies.

	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.