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Re: Glenn.

To further answer this: 126 pages, about 2 1/2 hours (with intermission, 
if I remember correctly). There is an Aria, 30 variations, final aria and 
coda. The word "great" comes to mind...

On Mon, 13 May 1996, Captain Nemo wrote:

> Who wrote the play "Glenn" (that Mary Jo mentioned)?  If anyone has it, how
> long is it, and if it is in a collection of plays, what is the title of
> that collection?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Nemesio
> 
> Captain Nemo
> 
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>         I go out into the hall to knock in a nail.  On my way there, I
> decide I would rather go out.  I obey the impulse, get into a train, come
> to a railway station, go on travelling and finally end up - in America!
> That is modulation!
>                                          Anton Webern, from "Towards New Music"
> 
> "The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of
> adrenaline but is, rather, the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of
> wonder and serenity."
>                                         Glenn Gould
> 
> 
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