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Cover of The Only Exception, by Paramore. All instruments recorded by me! Hope you like it! :-)

The Only Exception (Instrumental) - Paramore

Young The Giant -Typhoon (In The Open)

Paramore - Let The Flames Begin + Part II - Live

Dan Smith - Alchemy

Someone Else (Acoustic Instrumental)

Young The Giant- Crystallized (In The Open)

Score and more: http://www.stevenbryant.com/music/catalog/nothing-gold-can-stay

Nothing Gold Can Stay was commissioned as a surprise gift for Kevin Sedatole in honor of his first ten years at Michigan State University. His conducting students spanning that decade, led by Jamal Duncan and Armand Hall, banded together and approached me at the 2015 College Band Directors National Convention in Nashville about writing the work, and I knew immediately that I couldn’t refuse this special project, made all the more appropriate because my wife, Verena, was one of Kevin’s very first students at MSU.

The music is my deliberate attempt to write a chorale – something simple, beautiful, and familiar. The deceptive surface simplicity of Robert Frost’s poem seems to coincide with this music, particularly the paradoxical descending of dawn to day, all embodying the concept of felix culpa, or “lucky fall” – the idea that loss can bring greater good, and is in fact necessary.

The Only Exception (Instrumental) - Paramore

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