<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">Good day all. I was out and about this morning in the car and I listened to an hour of CBC; Michael Enright had musicologist Robert Harris on and they did part one a multiple hour thing on GG. It was lovely though I must say that Harris made a big mistake by saying that no one else plays the piano and hums. Enirght corrected this by saying that Oscar Peterson hummed. I would add that so does Keith Jarrett and so did Fats Waller and a bunch of other jazz piano titans. One thing that I did learn from Harris and this was totally new to me: the family name Gould is a made up or altered name. Glenn's father was a tailor in the 1930's here in Toronto, where the majority of tailors were Jews. Being a WASP,<VAR id=yui-ie-cursor></VAR> GG's
father perhaps grew tired of people assuming that Mr. Gold was a Jewish tailor, he amended the name to sound more Christian or non-Jewish....and made it "Gould". This was amazing enough to me but I will tell you a funny side story to this. My dad's father was a Jewish tailor in Toronto in the 1930's. I now wonder if he knew if Mr. Gould (or Gold)? How very odd. I will ask my dad if he can recall any such connection though at my dad's age I doubt that he'd remember. What a very small world.</SPAN></div>
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<div style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; FONT-STYLE: normal; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); FONT-SIZE: 16px; RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">Happy Birthday Glenn: you are more beloved now than ever. The vibrations you set in motion from your mind, your fingers, your piano, continue to reverate and move outwards......</SPAN></div>
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<div style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; FONT-STYLE: normal; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); FONT-SIZE: 16px; RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">P.S., it is my intention to finally buy a digital camera maybe this week and I do owe myself the promise to go visit GG's grave site, maybe with camera in hand. I just know it will be an emotional discovery.</SPAN></div>
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