RE: Glenn Gould:Tea?

[Jan Littrell <littrell@interwork.sdsu.edu>]

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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