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The Composer
George Dragonetti , the creator
of AstroSymphonics, is primarily a composer of contemporary music having
his compositions performed in the US and abroad. He holds a Master of Music
degree in composition from The Manhattan School of Music and has taught
music at major colleges in New York City. In the 1980’s he saw the dawning
of a new age embodying both music and microcomputers. He recognized the
potential of the emerging technology for realizing his vision of AstroSymphonics and
redirected his career toward areas where he could learn computer programming.
He eventually joined several multinational corporations in New York City
developing complex microcomputer systems.
The novel idea for AstroSymphonics
has been his vision for several decades. It emerged out of his love of
music, his life-long interest in Eastern philosophy and a long-time fascination
with cosmology and astrology. For much of Dragonetti's life his intuition
has suggested a hidden unity between astrology and music. He derives much
of his inspiration from the works of Pythagoras and Plato, both of whom
pursued the ideal of Music of the Spheres throughout their lives.
For Dragonetti the search for the method of expressing this connection developed gradually and paralleled the recent electronic revolution, providing us with the technology of both
PCs and synthesizers.
The company is dedicated to the principles of expressing the unity of
the creation and it is that clarity of ideals which inspired its name -
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