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Investigative Cue - 76 BPM

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Harpsichord Minor Beat - 94 BPM

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Electric Guitar Victorious Beat - 88 BPM

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Nina In Love

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Abandoned Carousel

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Cali Cruisin' Beat - 86 BPM

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Autumn Harvest Dance

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TV Noir Intro Theme

Juniper

Nature's first green is gold, 
Her hardest hue to hold. 
Her early leaf's a flower; 
But only so an hour. 
Then leaf subsides to leaf. 
So Eden sank to grief, 
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
-Robert Frost, Nothing Gold Can Stay

Nothing Gold Can Stay

Composed and conducted by Tareq Abuissa
Performed live by LyricLion on April 19, 2013
Furnald Lounge, Columbia University

These three movements were composed between September 2009 and April 2013, with each movement's themes conceived during the corresponding season. Each movement had been performed live once, each at separate concerts, during the year of this premiere of all three in cycle. 

Seasonal i. Nostalgia Fall

Tareq Abuissa is a composer, lyricist, and music director. His four stage musicals include Naked (2021) as well as the tech industry satire South of Market: The Musical (2016, 2017), while his scores for the screen include three USC Animation thesis films (2014) and two video interview series with Lincoln Center (2013).

A lifelong cellist and multi-instrumentalist, Abuissa has performed cello Off-Broadway for Marvell Rep's The Dybbuk (2011). While studying Music and Mathematics at Columbia University, he co-composed the 118th Varsity Show, The Corporate Core (2012), and his composition teachers included Fred Lerdahl and Osvaldo Golijov. Abuissa serves as the SCL Awards Administrator for the Society of Composers & Lyricists.

Tareq Abuissa

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