Parentheses, and big continuing slur

[Nahum wengrov]

Hello,

I need help with two problems:

1. I have a big continuing slur all over the upper piano staff, across the
page.

2. I tried to implement the example in "lstencil.hacking.ly" offered to me
earlier on this mailing list. First instance, around a beam, works fine.
Second instance, however, causes Lilypond to get stuck.

Original Image Scan: 
http://www.geocities.com/novartza/Images/Piratical_Ballad.png

Complete Lilypond file (with .txt extension, since Geocities doesn't allow
unkown extensions):
http://wwwgeocities.com/novartza/Images/Pirates2.ly.txt

Thanks in advance for your help!

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