A very rough first take--I'll probably polish it up when I get time. Although to be honest, writing a piece of music for Roy is sort of like painting a landscape for Ray Charles. Roy would appreciate the gesture, I'm sure.
This is a picture I took in the second incarnation of the Center for History and New Media (the Pohick Module) on October 3, 2001. Note the shirt--what a surprise!
This is a second picture from that evening at the Pohick Module on October 3, 2001. Roy is talking to Dee Holisky. In the background are Bob Hawkes and Paula Petrik.
Roy Rosenzweig, the Mark and Barbara Fried Professor of History & New Media at George Mason University, and a friend and councilor of the AHA, passed away yesterday, October 11, 2007, due to complications resulting from advanced cancer of the…