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<DIV>Anita, I am almost afraid to ask this...it is a silly and ridiculous
question, but I have often wondered about this....</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4><STRONG>Was he humming in tune during that particular
performance ?</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>Pat</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=rubatoatm@gmail.com
href="mailto:rubatoatm@gmail.com">Anita Monroe</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, February 28, 2015 7:02 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=bobmerk@earthlink.net
href="mailto:bobmerk@earthlink.net">Robert Merkin</A> ; <A
title=f_minor@glenngould.org href="mailto:f_minor@glenngould.org">Discussion of
the Canadian pianist Glenn Gould.</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [f_minor] Glenn Gould's humming</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr>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>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>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>
<DIV>stage...</DIV>
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<DIV>Anita</DIV></DIV>
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<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 12:56 AM, Robert Merkin <SPAN
dir=ltr><<A href="mailto:bobmerk@earthlink.net"
target=_blank>bobmerk@earthlink.net</A>></SPAN> wrote:<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=gmail_quote
style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">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><BR>SEND
MORE CHUCK BERRY<BR><BR><BR><BR>----- Original Message ----- From: "Pat"
<<A href="mailto:pzumst@bluewin.ch"
target=_blank>pzumst@bluewin.ch</A>><BR>To: "John Hood" <<A
href="mailto:johnhood@iinet.net.au"
target=_blank>johnhood@iinet.net.au</A>>; "Discussion of the Canadian
pianist Glenn Gould." <<A href="mailto:f_minor@glenngould.org"
target=_blank>f_minor@glenngould.org</A>><BR>Sent: Friday, February 20,
2015 1:19 PM
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<DIV class=h5><BR>Subject: Re: [f_minor] Glenn Gould's
humming<BR><BR><BR>Keith Jarrett also has a massive problem with coughing and
sneezing<BR>audiences....(while I have a problem with Jarrett as a performer
and<BR>persona).<BR><BR>Mr. Gould's humming is rather charming I htink. I
might be wrong but I was<BR>under the impression he was humming rather a lot
during those Mozart<BR>Sonatas. What is that supposed to tell us ?<BR><BR>and,
just in case...you might be one of the Anti-Hummers, 'ere's an old
joke<BR>told so many times on f_minor like Rob Merkin's NASA Voyager
joke...but it<BR>might be new to the novices....<BR><BR><A
href="http://www.davegrossman.net/gould/"
target=_blank>http://www.davegrossman.net/<U></U>gould/</A><BR><BR>Pat<BR><BR>-----Ursprüngliche
Nachricht----- From: John Hood<BR>Sent: Friday, February 20, 2015 1:47
PM<BR>To: Discussion of the Canadian pianist Glenn Gould.<BR>Subject: Re:
[f_minor] Glenn Gould's humming<BR><BR>Jazz pianist Keith Jarrett has quite a
similar problem with utterances as he<BR>plays which can be quite
annoying.<BR><BR>JH<BR><BR>------------------------------<U></U>--------------------<BR>From:
"Elaine Parks" <<A href="mailto:elaine19c@yahoo.ca"
target=_blank>elaine19c@yahoo.ca</A>><BR>Sent: Friday, February 20, 2015
9:07 AM<BR>To: "Discussion of the Canadian pianist Glenn Gould."<BR><<A
href="mailto:f_minor@glenngould.org"
target=_blank>f_minor@glenngould.org</A>><BR>Subject: Re: [f_minor] Glenn
Gould's humming<BR><BR>
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style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">I
like the humming too, and it's so interesting that he sometimes
sounds<BR>out of key!<BR><BR>I noticed that some current classical
performers make odd harrumphing<BR>breathing noises while performing (I
witnessed this in a pianist and a conductor)<BR>and I am wondering if our
tolerance for GG's extra sounds on record could have<BR>encouraged these
fellows in this regard. Or has it become a fashionable<BR>eccentricity to
exhibit such noises? In both instances I found it curious<BR>yet
unappealing; in the case of the conductor, I left early!!!<BR><BR>Regarding
a previous comment about GG's editing his work, my impression was that<BR>he
defended the right to edit and loved to play at it for fun to demonstrate a
point<BR>but in reality he actually didn't edit his pieces much...at the
most tacking on a different<BR>beginning or ending now and then, or
replacing a bad note. Anyone
agree?<BR><BR>Elaine<BR><BR><BR>------------------------------<U></U>--------------<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR><BR>---<BR>This
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