[f_minor] Glenn Gould's humming

Sat Feb 28 14:06:53 MST 2015

Woderful -- thanks for sharing! :-)

/Jorgen
> I attended a spectacular Glenn Gould recital in Bridges Auditorium, 
> Claremont CA in ~1962.  Frank Zappa, with whom I was then playing (pre 
> Mothers of Invention), and I decided at the last minute to get tickets 
> and were able to secure seats in the orchestra pit which they’d opened 
> up for the overflow crowd.
>
> We were seated on the keyboard side, inches from Gould’s hands and 
> from the stuffing hanging out of his stool, as he conducted himself 
> and hummed along.  The whole recital (one of his last I believe) was 
> magnificent; especially memorable to me were his interpretations of 
> William Byrd.
>
> But I was with Frank — so at one point when Gould’s gesticulations and 
> vocalizations were particularly dramatic, Zappa, mimicking a carnival 
> barker, turned to me and whispered “He sings! He dances!”
>
> Andy
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>> On Feb 28, 2015, at 10:02 AM, Anita Monroe <rubatoatm at gmail.com 
>> <mailto:rubatoatm at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>> I'm a fan of the humming too.  I actually heard him hum in 1959 when 
>> he played for a full audience of girls at Winthrop College.  Most of 
>> them
>> didn't know any Bach and didn't know who that cute guy was.  I was 
>> sitting in the second row, could hear the humming, and watched as he
>> looked rather angrily at the audience. He was right to feel that way 
>> since there was giggling and talking that could easily be heard on the
>> stage...
>>
>> Anita
>>
>> On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 12:56 AM, Robert Merkin 
>> <bobmerk at earthlink.net <mailto:bobmerk at earthlink.net>> wrote:
>>
>>     After several years of intense analysis, NASA supercomputers
>>     decoded the first message ever received from extraterrestrial
>>     intelligence. The message seems to have been a response to
>>     encountering our Voyager probe. It said:
>>
>>     SEND MORE CHUCK BERRY
>>
>>
>>
>>     ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pat" <pzumst at bluewin.ch
>>     <mailto:pzumst at bluewin.ch>>
>>     To: "John Hood" <johnhood at iinet.net.au
>>     <mailto:johnhood at iinet.net.au>>; "Discussion of the Canadian
>>     pianist Glenn Gould." <f_minor at glenngould.org
>>     <mailto:f_minor at glenngould.org>>
>>     Sent: Friday, February 20, 2015 1:19 PM
>>
>>     Subject: Re: [f_minor] Glenn Gould's humming
>>
>>
>>     Keith Jarrett also has a massive problem with coughing and sneezing
>>     audiences....(while I have a problem with Jarrett as a performer and
>>     persona).
>>
>>     Mr. Gould's humming is rather charming I htink. I might be wrong
>>     but I was
>>     under the impression he was humming rather a lot during those Mozart
>>     Sonatas. What is that supposed to tell us ?
>>
>>     and, just in case...you might be one of the Anti-Hummers, 'ere's
>>     an old joke
>>     told so many times on f_minor like  Rob Merkin's NASA Voyager
>>     joke...but it
>>     might be new to the novices....
>>
>>     http://www.davegrossman.net/gould/
>>
>>     Pat
>>
>>     -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- From: John Hood
>>     Sent: Friday, February 20, 2015 1:47 PM
>>     To: Discussion of the Canadian pianist Glenn Gould.
>>     Subject: Re: [f_minor] Glenn Gould's humming
>>
>>     Jazz pianist Keith Jarrett has quite a similar problem with
>>     utterances as he
>>     plays which can be quite annoying.
>>
>>     JH
>>
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>>     From: "Elaine Parks" <elaine19c at yahoo.ca <mailto:elaine19c at yahoo.ca>>
>>     Sent: Friday, February 20, 2015 9:07 AM
>>     To: "Discussion of the Canadian pianist Glenn Gould."
>>     <f_minor at glenngould.org <mailto:f_minor at glenngould.org>>
>>     Subject: Re: [f_minor] Glenn Gould's humming
>>
>>         I like the humming too, and it's so interesting that he
>>         sometimes sounds
>>         out of key!
>>
>>         I noticed that some current classical performers make odd
>>         harrumphing
>>         breathing noises while performing (I witnessed this in a
>>         pianist and a conductor)
>>         and I am wondering if our tolerance for GG's extra sounds on
>>         record could have
>>         encouraged these fellows in this regard. Or has it become a
>>         fashionable
>>         eccentricity to exhibit such noises? In both instances I
>>         found it curious
>>         yet unappealing; in the case of the conductor, I left early!!!
>>
>>         Regarding a previous comment about GG's editing his work, my
>>         impression was that
>>         he defended the right to edit and loved to play at it for fun
>>         to demonstrate a point
>>         but in reality he actually didn't edit his pieces much...at
>>         the most tacking on a different
>>         beginning or ending now and then, or replacing a bad note.
>>         Anyone agree?
>>
>>         Elaine
>>
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