<div dir="ltr">Pat, I'm not sure, he wasn't humming the exact line, but "in-tune", I just can't say..<div><br></div><div>Anita</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 1:54 PM, Pat <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pzumst@bluewin.ch" target="_blank">pzumst@bluewin.ch</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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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><b>From:</b> <a title="rubatoatm@gmail.com" href="mailto:rubatoatm@gmail.com" target="_blank">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" target="_blank">Robert Merkin</a> ; <a title="f_minor@glenngould.org" href="mailto:f_minor@glenngould.org" target="_blank">Discussion of
the Canadian pianist Glenn Gould.</a> </div><div><div class="h5">
<div><b>Subject:</b> Re: [f_minor] Glenn Gould's humming</div></div></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>
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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><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>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" 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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