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Your turn.

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Ah, sure.

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It puts me in mind of all
the different kinds of music.

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This is called "Rubato."

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It's dedicated to a professional
pianist, who's recorded a lot.

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Marta Argerich.

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I'm imagining a recital.

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"Rubato means time stolen from
one note and given to another.

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So with strong beats
often displaced,

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since this dance is not
at all a Waltz, but surges

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then holds back like feeling.

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Chopin's "Mazurkas" for piano
make the two hands sometimes

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play a rhythm not
exactly with but somewhat

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against each other.

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The right lagging, dragging a
beat or two out, but hastening

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to catch up an instant later.

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While the left, so it is said
of Chopin's own left hand,

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plays on at a steady
measure of 3, 3, 3.

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And you and I who hear or
don't hear the beat, listen.

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Don't listen.

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Lose our sense of time
in the forms of songs

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that say nothing or something.

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Someone coughs loudly to say
with his own un-singing voice

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that he refuses song.

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And what is it we
should have done today

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that we have to do tomorrow?

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All of this is wide, wandering
thought while she plays.

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The pianist, stealing time
for us from work and duty

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from the tangles we are caught
in from the clock ticking

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and ticking and
our alarmed heads.

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The time that she has no
intention of ever, ever giving

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back."

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