[F_minor] RE: something interesting, and a question

["Houpt, Fred" <fred.houpt@rbc.com>]

I think that the diner was called "Frans" and it was on St. Clair Avenue West, close to Yonge Street.  Don't know if it's still there.  They used to have 3 such diners and they were open all night and did have these booth like tables.  Glenn would just walk across the street to the restaurant.  He probably enjoyed their apple pie with ice-cream - which was delicious because they'd always warm up the pie first.  Yum.

As far as Glenn meeting with your dad in public, he was eccentric and very much valued certain friendships.  He just might have enjoyed his company very much.  Whether Glenn ventured out late at night, when most people are sleeping, to have a coffee and pie with your dad is not so far fetched.  Late enough at night and most of us are sleeping: the artists are restless.  

regards,

Fred Houpt
Toronto


-----Original Message-----
From: Chester Singh [mailto:k_dawg71@hotmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2006 10:09 AM
To: pwiener@ms.cc.sunysb.edu; bpl@umich.edu; Houpt, Fred;
f_minor@email.rutgers.edu
Subject: something interesting, and a question


A strange thing happened to me the other day, in that I discovered something 
interesting. I mentioned Glenn Gould in front of my father, and he said that 
back in the seventies, he had known Glenn GOuld quite well. My father is an 
artist, and claimed that his studio was very close to Glenn Gould's and they 
would meet often. This went on for about seven years, from 1970 to 1977. 
Something else is that my father says that every artist who had a studio in 
the area went to that diner (whose name I have forgotten), and each had 
their own particular booth that they occupied every time they ate there. 
Even more; my father actually heard the Toccata and Fugue in D minor (not 
Dorian) being played by Glenn Gould on an organ, as well as many other 
pieces of music.

Now to the qustion. Whatever I have read about Glenn Gould claims that 
towards the end of his life, he became recluse and stopped meeting people, 
limiting their conversations to telephones. Well, wasn't 1977 pretty close 
to his death, and that year my father claims he met him at least 20 times. I 
do not understand.
Chester Singh

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