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How much of it did you crack open? All 10,000 lines, or a quick glance? I remember being fascinated by this fallen angel. So I dusted off my old NortonвЂ™s Anthology and read some Milton again. So letвЂ™s get into it: who wants to talk about Satan? He even won a Best New Age Grammy this year, for his album Divine Tides, with Ricky Kej, but he remains generous enough to indulge any lingering curiosity about his group with Sting. He still plays drums, like in his rock supergroup Oysterhead with Trey Anastasio of Phish and Les Claypool of Primus. And the man has written seven of his own operas. After all, in the intervening years, Copeland has become an accomplished composer, scoring classic movies like Rumble Fish for Francis Ford Coppola, among many others. It was there that he founded the only Police everybody actually likes.Д«ut itвЂ™s almost unfair to him that people still want to discuss a band that hasnвЂ™t actually played together since their reunion tour in 2007, and hasnвЂ™t really been a band since the Synchronicity tour circaВ 1983.

Copeland went to boarding school there, before going to college in Berkeley in California, before coming back to London and getting into the new punk scene. Born in Virginia, he grew up in the Middle East before his dad, who was secretly operating as one of the Central Intelligence AgencyвЂ™s first spies, blew his cover and had to spirit his family away to London. Now 69 years old, CopelandвЂ™s life has been as epic as any heroic poem. HeвЂ™s in chill rock star rehearsal mode obviously-dressed like a Jedi in a black jacket with black jeans and black Converse all stars. Paul Hotel before he left for a day of choral rehearsals. So to quote Professor Dave Jennings in Animal House, вЂњWas Milton trying to tell us that being bad was more fun that being good?вЂќ The piece is inspired by a 355-year-old poem, Paradise Lost, by the English poet John Milton.

Paul this weekend to debut his new chorale piece SatanвЂ™s Fall, sung by the vaunted VocalEssence Chorus, and conducted by Phillip Brunelle. The text hints heavily that these men, who all have a similar appearance, are Tzadikim Nistarim.Stewart Copeland is in St. For that good deed ( mitzvah), Marco receives help from other Jewish people all throughout his travels.

Mordecai Cartafilo вЂ“ A Jewish merchant of Venice he meets Marco in prison and escapes with Marco's help.

She introduces Marco to many of the Persian pleasures of the bedroom.

Princess Moth вЂ“ The Crown Princess or Shahzrad Magas, daughter of Shahinshah Zaman and Shahryar Zahd of Baghdad.

Marco later marries her daughter who is half his age when he finally returns to Venice 20 years after leaving. Before he leaves for his journey, Marco and Doris make love. Marco befriends Doris and her brother Ubaldo.

Doris вЂ“ one of the вЂњboat children,вЂќ the poor orphans of the Venice docks.

She is a deaf-mute who dies in childbirth.

Hui-Sheng вЂ“ 'Echo' Marco Polo's Min lover and consort.

He is later given his freedom by Marco and marries the former Turki princess Mar-Janar. Nostril is a Sind and has had many other names such as Sindbad, Ali Babar and Ali-ad-Din.

Nostril вЂ“ Marco's slave bought for him by his father to keep an eye on Marco while the elder Polos left him behind in Baghdad.

Soon after the Polos arrive in his capital, Kubilai takes a liking to young Marco and shows him favor. He spends the rest of his life an invalid. MafГ¬o shares a potion with his lover Achmed and goes mad as a result. Marco learns of his uncle's homosexuality and is disgusted by it.

Marco Polo вЂ“ protagonist and narrator: a Venetian merchant who travels east to China and becomes a courtier in the Mongol court of Kubilai Khan.

Marco becomes even more uncontrollable when Zia Zulia and Michiel are caught sleeping together and subsequently run away. Marco becomes friends with Venice's 'boat children', a group of orphans who live on the canals of Venice, and becomes particularly close to Ubaldo and his sister Doris. His mother dies when he is seven, and he becomes increasingly unruly as he is raised by family servants like Zia Zulia, and their black slave Michiel. Marco Polo is the last of the illustrious Polo family left in Venice, after his father and uncles moved abroad, leaving him and his mother behind. Marco remains in the empire for nearly twenty years and returns home as a wealthy man. When he is falsely accused of murdering the husband of his lover, he is exiled from Venice and travels east with his father and uncle to the court of Kublai Khan, Mongol emperor of the orient. Unsupervised, he freely roams the streets and canals of the city getting in trouble. Marco is the only heir to the wealthy Polo family of Venice.

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