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The music to come.

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[LAUGHING]

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Mr. Robert.

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Off you go, horse.

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[GRUNTS]

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Tired?

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The whole day with
the 12 tone Germans,

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then called Madame
Callas for a chat.

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You know, what's-your-name,
my bad eyesight alone made

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for effective touches
and performance.

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Those sudden reeling backward
half a swoon in Tosca

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at two, causing
hearts to stop came

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from when I stumbled on a
prop in dress rehearsal.

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Little things like that.

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Now tell me Tom, Dick, you're
returning soon as a composer?

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Interesting.

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You will write for the stage?

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You don't say?

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Wonderful.

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With a good part for me?

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I forget.

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Once and for all it's
here that one retires.

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Making night glimmer
with short sighted tears.

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This relieves us,
since the fête at nine

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there's been no mention
of your music, Robert.

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Much of it over your
heads, I fear, and mine.

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Even as we talk I'm
separating the tones

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in a double glissando.

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A full year could be
devoted to each one's least

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vibrations, Then exams: compose
500 variations on three notes.

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G-A-D, say, ring
in my mind and must

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be linked first their
frequencies in Western music.

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Schumann, Bach, Josquin, then
the vibes of color and emotion.

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G minor a blue green sublimity.

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Why only three notes?

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Three for those of us who share
the Western oh well genius,

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is as we know nearly
unbreakable mold.

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A-B-A or major minor major.

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DJ.

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But Schoenberg.

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Yes, he grasped the
mold breaking idea,

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yet left us with the old.

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Innovation only strengthened
it while many a listener

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clawed his chair
and prayed: let oh

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let the lid fall on that hand.

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Steinway collapse and
break those wretched knees.

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Put oh put an end
to that career.

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The prayer has been answered?

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Now sir, if you please
I'll use the instrument.

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First lesson, dear Mr. X, there
are these things called keys.

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He talks a while about the
music, the kind of music

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they want him to write.

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We notice however,
that the cup is

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moving in a rather
slow, sad way and remark

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that it is an awesome task
to undertake, a lonely one.

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I don't rush off with glad
cries like our friends.

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I shan't like them belong
to Queen mom's crystal set.

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Then, too, you see.

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A deep breath.

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I'm to be crippled.

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Dear God, why?

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Why not?

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Confined and slightly
set apart, slow love,

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forced to get on with
it, make sense of it,

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make my report to God.

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Robert, from birth?

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Yes, joining the club (foot).

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But hasn't modern
surgery by now?

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Please, I had to reject
too many bone implants

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before the doctors let me be.

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At least a fine Byronic head?

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This time, dear Mr.
Robert, no distractions.

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Who wants love must earn
it-- so my slight melancholy,

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but I'll get out of gym.

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Miss Jane.

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Plus two doting parents,
Mr. R, and oh that

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shy fond sister, no
marriage for her.

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No, no.

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There she'll be,
tapping at your studio,

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such an attractive
set up out in a barn.

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Brother dear, your lunch.

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Forgive me, lads, but time
is pressing if not here

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below in the red matrix.

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Go.

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We understand.

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You'll see me next
through a faint haze.

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Five ceremonies on as many days
begin tomorrow after which,

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alas, down to
Earth I spiral like

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a leaf who would gladly stay.

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But no, fond as I am of Uni,
one cannot say nay to life.

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Sirs, he was laughing
when he left.

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Trot in there, Uni.

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Try following that act.

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Sirs, Mr. R is my shepherd.

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When he speaks my
world goes green.

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He shows me skills.

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Shall I say a poem?

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One of yours?

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Dear creature, by all means.

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I stand each day by the
school room door from which

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came murmurings before.

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I stand and wait to
greet our friends

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and summer ends and summer ends.

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