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<DIV><FONT size=4 face="Palatino Linotype">Thanks, Arlene, now I can
blame you for bursting the OT bubble for news about a remarkable Canadian
musician who just happens not to be Glenn Gould.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4 face="Palatino Linotype">Last year Kate McGarrigle
died. With Anna, Kate was half of the remarkable McGarrigle Sisters of
Montr<FONT size=3>é</FONT>al.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4 face="Palatino Linotype">The stilling of her voice, talent and
spirit has hurt me so deeply I have not yet been able to write a word or speak
to others about it. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4 face="Palatino Linotype">Naively I had assumed she and her
sisters -- and lately her two remarkable children Martha and Rufus
Wainwright, the kids of Kate's marriage to Loudon Wainwright
III -- would just keep singing for my joy and delight forever.
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<DIV><FONT size=4 face="Palatino Linotype">(And often playing my Massachusetts
town nightclub because their guitarist loved to blow his money on new guitars at
the excellent music store next door.)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4 face="Palatino Linotype">I want to write about Kate and her
family's incredibly rich musical world -- a world that sang in both French and
English, and thus had important political and social dimensions in Canada, too
-- dimensions with international and future implications, if we're
lucky.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4 face="Palatino Linotype">May I ask anyone with feelings and
love for the McGarrigle family's achievement to reply -- on-List if you dare, or
privately -- so I can hear voices other than just my own.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4 face="Palatino Linotype"></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4 face="Palatino Linotype">Meanwhile, click into YouTube, type
"McGarrigle" into the SEARCH box, and devote an hour or a day or a week to
incredible beauty. (I'm particularly wild about one of the duo's last songs, "<A
href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JB6-sH5jozA">Petite Annonce</A>," and its
very funny video.) </FONT><FONT size=4 face="Palatino Linotype">Then tell me
what stirred within you.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4 face="Palatino Linotype">Bob Merkin</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4 face="Palatino Linotype">Massachusetts USA</FONT></DIV>
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style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=arlenedick@yahoo.com href="mailto:arlenedick@yahoo.com">Arlene
Dick</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=f_minor@glenngould.org
href="mailto:f_minor@glenngould.org">f_minor@glenngould.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, June 01, 2011 5:28
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [f_minor] Leonard Cohen awarded
prestigious Spanish prize forLiterature</DIV>
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