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We showcased our work from this summer's Production Workshop in a live performance at The Great New England Steampunk Exhibition on September 18 in Fitchburg, Massachusetts. Here are Amelia's two arias from Act One Scene 1: "Sky Scientist" followed by "Dressing".

Mary and I have finished the music for Act I scenes 1, 3, and 4. These are the scenes we expect to perform in September for the preview. After the show I hope we can post music as performed by musicians and singers. For now, what we can post are the MP3 playback files…

I had the great privilege to study with Blanche Moyse while a student at Marlboro College. Here is today's article in the Post about her remarkable life:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/12/AR2011021203553.html

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Definition: The third culture consists of those scientists and other thinkers in the empirical world who, through their work and expository writing, are taking the place of the traditional intellectual in rendering visible the deeper meanings of our lives, redefining who and what we are.

"Today, third-culture thinkers tend to avoid the middleman and endeavor to express their deepest thoughts in a manner accessible to the intelligent reading…

or, Reflections on the Music of The Greenest Branch

In the musical score underlying The Greenest Branch, we re-examine the foundations of Western classical music, re-injecting European music back into the "world music" continuum from which it arose. To the contemporary Western ear, it should sound like a mashup of Eastern European, Middle Eastern, and Celtic music. To listeners in Eastern Europe and the Middle East, it will still sound distinctly Western, but not so foreign.…