Seth's website

Seth

Our son Seth Greene Samuel has created a website that allows us to hear his music.  He graduated in May 07 from the Oberlin Conservatory with a degree in composition, and he's now pursuing a Masters in Music in film composition at NYU's Steinhardt School of Music.

I recently saw (while trapped alone in a hotel room during a sub-zero winter day in Canada) a cheesey and anti-adoption movie called AUGUST RUSH,  in which a musical prodigy in an orphanage declines adoption and resolves to search for his birth parents through his brilliant musical compositions, certain his birth-parents will hear his music someday and find him, which, of course, they do.

Five minutes in, I knew I wouldn't encourage our five adopted children to see this movie. It presents, as a real possibility, the cliche orphan fantasy of, "Somewhere my two gorgeous, highly intelligent, talented, and emotionally stable birthparents are searching for me."  By the time the moviet was over, I knew I'd forbid Seth to see it, too, lest he conclude that Don and I are not his birth-parents (in his case, we are) and lest he begin roaming the world in search of people who have a shred of musical talent and must thus be closer genetically to him than we are. 

WWW.SETHGSAMUEL.COM