Re: For the heck of it...

[Kame'a Media <media...>]

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>  Hands up, how many on
> the list know where Oscar Peterson was born and where he lives?

Born in Montreal, I think. When I was a kid, he lived on a suburban street,
(the name escapes me) East of Bathurst, South of Steeles.
in North York (Toronto).

> Glenn
> Gould?

He's dead.  But former List member and Jewish/Yiddish performance artist par
excellence Michael Wex lives in his old building on St. Clair. Ave in Toronto.
There is a historical plaque outside.  I believe he hails from the West End, 
around
High Park, originally.

> I was gonna add Saul Bellow,

Born Lachine, Quebec.

> but I don't think he can play clarinet,

Nobody's perfect.  He did however, bring Isaac B. Singer into the mainstream 
with
his translation of "Gimpel the Fool" .  (Bellow's wife just delivered a kid and 
he
must be in his seventies or eighties).

Do I win anything?

Wolf

> and he's been down there with the Wrigleys so long, he's as Canadian as Joni
> Mitchell...
>
> Best,
> J.
>

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