roses

  • Standing on Rounded Stones

      In my composition classes, I taught that if you are interested in thinking outside the box – if you strive to stretch or break the rules – you must first master the box. It’s my simplistic notion based on observations that some of the most innovative musicians were first classically (or at least formally)…

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  • By E.E. Cummings Presented in honor of the 34th birthday of Lauren Gabrielle Rousseau I shall imagine life is not worth dying, if (and when) roses complain their beauties are in vain but though mankind persuades itself that every weed’s a rose, roses (you feel certain) will only smile ~ Lauren’s story is so much more…

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