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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Woderful -- thanks for sharing! :-)<br>
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/Jorgen<br>
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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.
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<div class="">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.
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<div class="">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!”</div>
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into two kinds of people, and those who don’t.
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<div class="">On Feb 28, 2015, at 10:02 AM, Anita Monroe
<<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:rubatoatm@gmail.com" class="">rubatoatm@gmail.com</a>>
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<div dir="ltr" class="">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
<div class="">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</div>
<div class="">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</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 12:56
AM, Robert Merkin <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:bobmerk@earthlink.net"
target="_blank" class="">bobmerk@earthlink.net</a>></span>
wrote:<br class="">
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0
.8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">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:<br
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SEND MORE CHUCK BERRY<br class="">
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Pat" <<a
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class="">pzumst@bluewin.ch</a>><br class="">
To: "John Hood" <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:johnhood@iinet.net.au"
target="_blank" class="">johnhood@iinet.net.au</a>>;
"Discussion of the Canadian pianist Glenn Gould."
<<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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target="_blank" class="">f_minor@glenngould.org</a>><br
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Sent: Friday, February 20, 2015 1:19 PM
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Subject: Re: [f_minor] Glenn Gould's humming<br
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Keith Jarrett also has a massive problem with
coughing and sneezing<br class="">
audiences....(while I have a problem with
Jarrett as a performer and<br class="">
persona).<br class="">
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Mr. Gould's humming is rather charming I
htink. I might be wrong but I was<br class="">
under the impression he was humming rather a
lot during those Mozart<br class="">
Sonatas. What is that supposed to tell us ?<br
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and, just in case...you might be one of the
Anti-Hummers, 'ere's an old joke<br class="">
told so many times on f_minor like Rob
Merkin's NASA Voyager joke...but it<br
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might be new to the novices....<br class="">
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<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.davegrossman.net/gould/"
target="_blank" class="">http://www.davegrossman.net/gould/</a><br
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Pat<br class="">
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-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- From: John
Hood<br class="">
Sent: Friday, February 20, 2015 1:47 PM<br
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To: Discussion of the Canadian pianist Glenn
Gould.<br class="">
Subject: Re: [f_minor] Glenn Gould's humming<br
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Jazz pianist Keith Jarrett has quite a similar
problem with utterances as he<br class="">
plays which can be quite annoying.<br class="">
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JH<br class="">
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From: "Elaine Parks" <<a
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target="_blank" class="">elaine19c@yahoo.ca</a>><br
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Sent: Friday, February 20, 2015 9:07 AM<br
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To: "Discussion of the Canadian pianist Glenn
Gould."<br class="">
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Subject: Re: [f_minor] Glenn Gould's humming<br
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I like the humming too, and it's so
interesting that he sometimes sounds<br
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out of key!<br class="">
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I noticed that some current classical
performers make odd harrumphing<br class="">
breathing noises while performing (I
witnessed this in a pianist and a conductor)<br
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and I am wondering if our tolerance for GG's
extra sounds on record could have<br
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encouraged these fellows in this regard. Or
has it become a fashionable<br class="">
eccentricity to exhibit such noises? In both
instances I found it curious<br class="">
yet unappealing; in the case of the
conductor, I left early!!!<br class="">
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Regarding a previous comment about GG's
editing his work, my impression was that<br
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he defended the right to edit and loved to
play at it for fun to demonstrate a point<br
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but in reality he actually didn't edit his
pieces much...at the most tacking on a
different<br class="">
beginning or ending now and then, or
replacing a bad note. Anyone agree?<br
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<br class="">
Elaine<br class="">
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