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Introducing AcquaTroupe!

    As a creative artist, I love to create anything new, or help others form a new venture or project or plan. I fondly remember making the insane decision to compose an opera based on one of Shakespeare's least known and most difficult plays; the impulse that told me I should find ways to incorporate my varied interests into every piece of original music; and the realization that if I wanted to depict one of the most important years in modern history (1969) -- which was coincidentally one of the more significant years of my life -- I should simply make a movie about it.     Such grand artistic gestures are not for the faint-hearted or the weak. I do not recommend making such gestures unless you are absolutely sure of what you want to achieve. But one of the greatest feelings we can experience is the launching of a huge project which feels right, sounds right, looks right and is in tune with what we have dreamed all along.      As a composer of classical music, I am part of a s