Tim Mahon wrote: >Hector Aguilar asks (regarding Gould's humming): > >>I wonder if this "syndrome" has a name. . . .:-) > >If not, why don't we call it "Gouldism", since the majority of responders >seem to think it doesn't distract or detract? Might as well celebrate him >for another reason! As it happens WHRB had its Glenn Gould orgy just yesterday- a reminder that there is plenty of reason for celebrating him as a great artist with a special commitment to and belief in the recorded performance. To obsess about the humming is more of a distraction than the humming. Bernard Chasan