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He will never be gone from our hearts. I can honestly say that he was one of the most important positive influences in my daughter’s life, who is now a professional trombonist. I always remember him as having constant joy in his heart. Even when he would have to call the attention of the orchestra members, he would do so with a loving smile, among other things, never letting on that he was battling an illness. I still can’t resign myself to having lost him.
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Thank you, Alpert Studio, for this tribute to Roger Samuel, who made music for thousands.
“Orpheus’ lute was strung with poets’ sinews,
Whose golden touch could soften steel and stones,
Make tigers tame and huge leviathans
Forsake unsounded deeps to dance on sands.”
(The Two Gentlemen of Verona, 3.2.79-82)