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Offline panic

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Random question
on: May 30, 2006, 09:57:32 AM
Does anyone know what the piece is that Hamelin plays (a clip of) for the first two seconds of the Supervirtuoso Documentary?

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Re: Random question
Reply #1 on: May 30, 2006, 10:06:41 AM
kaleidescope by j. hoffman is mentioned below the clip.  don't know if that is it or not.

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Re: Random question
Reply #2 on: May 30, 2006, 12:31:22 PM
It's the end of the 35th variation from the "People United" variations by Rzewski.
Belles journées, souris du temps,
vous rongez peu à peu ma vie.
Dieu! Je vais avoir vingt-huit ans...
Et mal vécus, à mon envie.
 

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