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   Gary McGath to Tim Merrigan   
   Re: Longest plan   
   22 Nov 24 09:02:19   
   
   From: garym@mcgath.com   
      
   On 11/21/24 3:33 PM, Tim Merrigan wrote:   
   > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longplayer   
   >   
   > Longplayer is a very long piece of music by British composer and   
   > musician Jem Finer which is composed to play for 1000 years without   
   > looping. It started to play at midnight on 1 January 2000, and if all   
   > goes as planned, it will continue without repetition until 31 December   
   > 2999.   
   >   
   > I got to this after looking up John Cage's "As Slow as Possible".   
   >   
   > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_Slow_as_Possible   
   >   
   > Which is, apparently, only the second longest piece of music.   
   >   
   >   
      
   The title "As Slow as Possible" reminds me of the tempo directions on   
   the first movement of Schumann's Second Piano Sonata. At the start is   
   "So rasch wie moeglich" (as fast as possible). Later on are the   
   directions "Schneller" (faster) and "Noch schneller" (still faster).   
      
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   Gary McGath    http://www.mcgath.com   
      
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