The Story Says: Steal the Magic Jewels

Music: Fugue in G# Minor
By Dmitri Shostakovich. Sequenced for jazz ensemble by J. Marques.

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The story says: Steal the magic jewels, Wed the princess, live happily ever after. Eventually, you must risk death to gain life. Now you and I both know the jewels are fake, The princess is a bitch, and heroes fools. Yet what's life without something worth dying for? So look around in four or five dimensions: Everything's a fit field for laughter. Vision requires a powerful close-up lens: Eventually, you must risk falsehood to gain truth. Nothing will be equal to the chances you take.