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Thanks, Mac.  I was going to suggest Oscar as well.  In most of his  
live recordings you can detect in the background his humming along.   
My organ teacher didn't actually sing along when he performed, but he  
sort of 'breathed along' in an unusual way, something I have heard  
from others since those days.

This is a trait of many great musicians, who envision the final  
product of what they want to convey.  They take seriously the  
admonition that you should make your instrument 'sing' by singing  
along or anticipating what phrasing they want in a sometimes most  
audible way.  It is in no way unusual.

My problem was always that I could 'hear' the music ideally just the  
way I wanted to play it, but never knew if I was actually  
accomplishing that ideal.  I was never sure I actually heard myself  
play!  If only my listeners could just channel in on my wavelength,  
then it wouldn't matter how good or lousy I was.

Glenda Sutton
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On Mar 2, 2011, at 3:23 AM, Mac Hayes wrote:

> Chris Nichols wrote:
>> Many decades ago I ran lights for a concert by Rudolph Serkin ...
>> During the concert I was back stage and heard this odd noise and a  
>> thumping.
>> It almost sounded like a custodian was sweeping the stairwell...
>>
>
> Still off thread, aren't we.  I guess one more won't hurt:
> Oscar Peterson was performing at a university near USC (can't  
> remember which) around 1987-88.  I got last-minute tickets which put  
> me in the last row of the top-most balcony, seemed like 200 feet  
> from the stage and looking down on it from a great height.  During  
> one of the later numbers on the program I thought I heard some idiot  
> clapping his hands to the music, but badly out of rhythm. Eventually  
> it dawned on me I was hearing Peterson's foot tapping, but since the  
> piano was heard through speakers and the foot heard via air  
> transmission  . . .
>
> Mac Hayes
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