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  312 Atlas PointsAuthor InfoView all articles by Rodney RawlingsNumber of Posts: 612 View all posts by this user: here Num Gallery items: 10 View all Galleries by this user: here | DescriptionI’ll be a dandy and I’ll be a rover— You’ll know who I am —“Today,” New Christy Minstrels General Info I am a Toronto writer and composer who makes ends meet as a freelance editor of university textbooks among other things. (See below for more about my music.) I have two small claims to Objectivist fame. The first is my own early thinking. Years before discovering Ayn Rand in my teens, I was in my bedroom wondering about words and their definitions. And I remember the moment when I said to myself, “What you do is, you take the ideas in the distinguishing things about the word, and leave out the measurements.” Years later, I encountered this identification in Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology. Leonard Peikoff has stated that this was a momentous and seminal discovery of Ayn Rand’s. IOE came out in 1966, which I think was after I had my own thoughts. The other is that Ayn Rand once approached me in a Green Room crowd at the Ford Hall Forum and spoke to me, asking if I had a pen. I stammered that I did not. There had been people between us, but the crowd had parted suddenly and there she was. I’ve often wondered whether she singled me out. For two years I was Chief Editor and personal assistant for Dr. Hans Selye, the man who made “stress” a household word. My step-grandson is Ashley Parker Angel, who on the TV reality show Making the Band was chosen to be in the boy band O-Town (the band is no more, but his solo album will be out this year). About My Music
One of the deepest truths about music was well expressed by Bruce Johnston in his lyric for “I Write the Songs”: My home lies deep within you, I am Music, and I write the songs. A compliment I received recently: I listened to your music on all the sites you sent. It captivated me! You are very talented—a real pro. I got the feeling when listening, that I was listening to classical composers like Mozart, whose music was the literature of that time. Listeners used their imaginations to visualize the story, and that’s what I did with your excellent pieces. Congratulations on what is obviously a lifetime of devotion and God-given talent! —Jay Tell, Bobby Darin’s close friend and business partner (Darin sang “Mack the Knife,” “Dream Lover,” “Beyond the Sea,” etc.)
Here are links to my own music I have posted at SoloHQ. First, independent songs:
Songs from my musical play The Watcher on the Shore:
My Level 3 concert band composition Anthem is on sale at the Third Millennium Composers site. Anthem was performed at Upper Canada College in Toronto. Older posts of mine were made under the screen names rodney and wtc4fr. A million tomorrows shall all pass away Ere I forget all the joy that is mine |
  
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Okay, it's French. But despite that considerable drawback, this movie has a wonderful sense of life.
(Added by Barry Kayton on 2/28/2004, 7:32am)
| | Rodney Rawlings: Music, Melody, and Songs - Composer Rodney Rawlings offers his insights on the nature and purpose of melody, as well as samples of his work and other compositions he considers representative of a rational approach. (Added by G. Stolyarov II on 3/12/2004, 9:55pm) | |
| Regina Ayn Weiler, 15 years old Posted by Rodney Rawlings on 5/15/2004, 2:53pm | |
| From the article: "When she was 8 or 9, Rocket checked 66 books out of Merritt Island Library in one visit. She said she read them within a week. Perhaps such precocity was destined for a girl named after philosopher and author Ayn Rand, known for her celebration of individuality."(Read more...) | ||
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