[f_minor] Glenn Gould's humming

[Anita Monroe]

Pat,  I'm not sure, he wasn't humming the exact line, but "in-tune", I just
can't say..

Anita

On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 1:54 PM, Pat <pzumst at bluewin.ch> wrote:

>   Anita, I am almost afraid to ask this...it is a silly and ridiculous
> question, but I have often wondered about this....
>
> *Was he humming in tune during that particular performance ?*
>
> Pat
>
>  *From:* Anita Monroe <rubatoatm at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Saturday, February 28, 2015 7:02 PM
> *To:* Robert Merkin <bobmerk at earthlink.net> ; Discussion of the Canadian
> pianist Glenn Gould. <f_minor at glenngould.org>
> *Subject:* Re: [f_minor] Glenn Gould's humming
>
>  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>
> 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>
>> To: "John Hood" <johnhood at iinet.net.au>; "Discussion of the Canadian
>> pianist Glenn Gould." <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
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------
>> From: "Elaine Parks" <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>
>> 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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>>>
>>
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