In others words the students were able to bring a new perspective to a timeless love story.

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Take 25-year-old Alejandro Rosso, with his training in classical and jazz music and his love of timeless musicians such as Thelonious Monk and Herbie Hancock, throw in 22-year-old Jonas, who played in punk bands and was influenced by Nirvana, and you wind up with a mix of multilingual rap, swanky lounge-lizard tempos, frisky hip-hop and playful, inane lyrics.

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His 1996 album, "I Love to Tell the Story -- 25 Timeless Hymns, " netted him a Grammy Award.

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When diplomas are being handed out, though, it might be worthwhile for graduates and the rest of us if the popular "do what you love" message were balanced with a more timeless message to find work that, even in some small way, truly matters.

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