Photo: The Illumination of a Dull Star (PublicDomainPicture.net) TIME AND PLACE 2030s (or so). An observatory in California. CHARACTERS DR. ZO MARIE CURIE, female.DR. ALBERTA EINSTEIN, female.PROFESSOR VIKTOR WOOLF, male. A Voice, over the radio.Voices, from Curie’s cellphone speaker. Center stage: CURIE, EINSTEIN, and WOOLF are busily preparing the Catcher (which an outside observer might […]
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Photo from Wikimedia CHARATERS NADIA BOULANGER (16 September 1887 to 22 October 1979), French composer and conductor. Likely the greatest music teacher of all time. Possibly the most influential teacher since Socrates, as one leading composer has said of her. In that capacity Boulanger has influenced generations of music, most notably in the United States
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Photo from Wikimedia TIME, place AND NOTES Summer vacation, 2019, on board an ocean liner crossing the Atlantic. The primary characters are the seven children, who set about developing a variety show for an evening’s entertainment onboard ship. The world has gone mad todayAnd good’s bad todayAnd black’s white todayAnd day’s night todayAnd that gent
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