Always the Heart, such feeling and Love...

Ave Generoso

Oh! Phnom Penh

Composed by Musicians who survived the Khmer Rouge genocide (1975-79).
 Oh! Phnom Penh is a tear-filled ode of Love to their beloved capital city, the population of which was forcibly evacuated by the Khmer Rouge and the city of Phnom Penh lay empty for 3 years 8 months and 20 days.

Phnom Penh was never the same again and a large percentage of the original inhabitants were never to return, having perished under Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge. 

Oh Phnom Penh -  Catherine Louise Geach, Violin

Love Conquers All, the Gift comes from the Double Gold Award Winning and HIMMA "Best Epic Orchestral winning, "Love Conquers All", concept & lyrics by Cindy Paulos, Music and Production by Stephen Melillo

Love Conquers All

09.  Love Conquers All, the Gift

This is the Opening Track from the double Gold Music Awards and HIMMA Best Epic/Orchestral winning, Love Conquers All, When Heaven Merged with Earth

Love Conquers All

#1280 in 4:10 for Chorus & Orchestra
Lyrics by Cindy Paulos & Stephen Melillo
Music by Stephen Melillo
© IGNA 18 DEC 2021
ASCAP



Ah… (or optional lyrics in open)

Love Conquers All
Even in the Darkest Times of all
When a Star led wan-‘dring Souls
To follow Light’s shining call… (and)

Love Conquers All
In this life we rise and fall, but the
Light from that special Night
Gives us Hope and a Promise that
Love Conquers All

Let’s light a candle and say a Prayer
That the Miracles will appear
With our Faith, in Time,
the Stars sing Songs divine, and
Give us Hearts to see
All we are meant to be
To be… (free!)

Love Conquers All
It’s the answer to recall
We are parts of that Light
Because Love Conquers All

Oh Yes!
Love Conquers All
Bring that Light into your Life and share
All the blessings, joy and Love and Care
In this Moment of Christmas, ‘cause

Love Conquers All
Listen well to its call, for the
Greatest Gift of all

—

His Love Conquers All
Conquers All
Just Love…

01.  Love Conquers All

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This track is from the concert work: Forever Strong, A Tribute to the U.S.S. Indianapolis and is available for purchase as pure AUDIO on CD Baby here: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/stephenmelillo5

DEMO version: (with Film)
https://vimeo.com/stormworks/foreverstrongdemo

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Forever Strong, A Tribute to the U.S.S. Indianapolis

Song from "Benefit of the Doubt."

I Never Had a Love Like You Before
Music & Lyric by © Stephen Melillo IGNA 27 June 1992

Yes, I believe in Dreams coming true
Makin’ it thru the darkest, lonely night
‘cause there you are, my friend strong and true, and
Everything I feel with you is right...

‘cause You love Me
And I know you care... to
Show that love each day just a little more
I Never Had a Love Like You Before...

It used to be, no one thought of me
All my livin’ was for other people’s needs
But in your touch, I learn to feel so much
You saved my heart and let me give it back to me...

‘cause You love Me
And I know you care to
Show that love each day just a little more
I Never Had a Love Like You Before...

Oh, Live with me, and
Stay with me
I will love you more than you could know
I’ve never really been in love before...

‘cause You love Me
And I know you care... to
Show that love each day just a little more
I Never Had a Love Like You Before...

Before...

I Never Had a Love Like You Before...

I Never Had A Love Like You Before

February 2016
In the Year of the Monkey

A very Happy New Year to many friends, those I’ve grown up with, and those STORMDirectors celebrating the Chinese New Year.  

As Confucius said of Music… “To go to the very root of our feelings and know the changes which they undergo is the province of Music.”

About “Lost Ancestors of the Yangtze”

The Chinese government accomplished a great engineering feat by constructing a Mega-Dam across the Yangtze River in 2012, and in so doing submerged 244 square miles of land imbued with 5000 years of Chinese History & Culture.

Some of it was saved… much submerged beneath 574 feet of water. 

People who had known no other way of life were moved to higher ground and newer cities.

The Chinese were/are indeed brave in many regards, that in setting the NEXT 5000 years of future-sighted possibility. Still though...  what they gave up was a Past that even "foreigners" like myself will miss. I have studied Chinese martial art all of my Life and very much love the History and Culture of China. I was fortunate to visit several Temples and walk on the Great Wall in 2010.

The most painful part of this relocation process was leaving generation upon generation of Family Ancestors to their grave-sites, now under water...

Lost Ancestors of The Yangtze

An arrangement of "Were You There?" for Band.  May you hear within, the weeping intended by the question... "were you there when they hung Him to the tree?"  And also... when He was risen...  Godspeed!  S

Were You There?

3:00 Excerpt from: 
The Unwilling, Original Motion Picture Score 
by Stephen Melillo

To enjoy the rest of this track and the other 63 minutes of motion picture score, please visit iTunes, or get your CD here:  http://cdbaby.com/cd/stephenmelillo6

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The UNWILLING Film Scoring Excerpts at 9:58 on VIMEO:
https://vimeo.com/272355955


29 May 2018
On the Birthday of Erich Wolfgang Korngold

I began scoring “The Unwilling,” a film about a father’s passing and the subsequent reading of his Will as my own Father entered the hospital.  He passed away on Father’s Day of 2016 as I was completing the last edits for Jonathan. There are many other SYNCS and back-stories connected to this first collaboration with Jonathan Heap & Phil Morton since the Academy Award-nominated, 1201PM, 25 years ago!

I was excited to compose for an action thriller but also touched by the heart-filled portions of the story.  The director encouraged me to follow that layered approach; thriller over action, over the personal story.

In the very first scene they had shared, David the Character and David Lipper the Actor cleans a mirror and touches a photo of his little dog.  Somewhere in “David’s” innocent smile was the inspiration for 3 simple notes that became, “OCD, Uno Minuetto per Davide, for String Quintet & Piano.”  Even the tempo of the work emanates from David literally “conducting” his life.  The 3 notes of the Minuetto spiraled outward and became the entire 70-minute Score, finding final and full summation in “Epilogue from The UNWILLING.” The Musical OCD of the Score, something I consider a single composition, was inspired by the likable character of David, whose OCD becomes his strength.  Indeed he overcomes not only his own “boxed in” personal demon but perhaps everyone else’s greatest fear, that of stopping a monster.  That and more… is the Musical Journey of the Score.

At the beginning of this End Credit Music, we hear the entirety of the dialogue overlapped and whispered.  The inspiration came from the film’s metaphor of a box within a box, a continuous recursive loop.  Jonathan Heap, the Director was quick to accept this idea and record the actors during a looping session.  This culmination of the screenplay within the screenplay occurs 3 times in the film.

Next, in this more extended cue on Soundcloud, we hear a multi-metered, harmonized fugue.  This fugue was once again inspired by the recursive nature of the story.  When we finally arrive at the Musical denouement, I faded the cue for this Soundcloud demo.  The Director, Actors, Producers, and Collaborators share my hope that you will want to get the recording and the film to experience the entirety of the production.

I very much enjoyed telling the Musical part of this story.  I enjoyed the collaboration and the many talented people who came together to offer this work.

To enjoy the rest of the score, please visit iTunes, or get your CD here:  http://cdbaby.com/cd/stephenmelillo6

The DVD/Film is available on AMAZON here: http://bit.ly/Unwilling-AmazonDVD

http://cdbaby.com/cd/stephenmelillo6
http://bit.ly/Unwilling-AmazonDVD
www.stephenmelillo.com
https://soundcloud.com/trialbystorm/3m-excerpt-from-the-unwillng-by-stephen-melillo
and on iTunes:  http://bit.ly/Unwilling-iTunes

Thank you for listening!  Enjoy & Godspeed!  S

3:00 Excerpt from "The Unwilling"  Original Motion Picture Score by Stephen Melillo

SON of the STORM by Stephen Melillo, 13:42 Excerpts

SON of the STORM is a 2-hour contemporary opera set in the style of a 1940s Radio Broadcast, the event transpiring during 2 time periods in Germany and starring characters created by Mary Shelley exactly 200 years ago this summer of 2016.  Via links provided in the Bio and elsewhere, please visit stormworld.com for your accompanying Digital Libretti and artwork.  The work is also intended for live staging.  Thank you in advance for your thoughtful listening and Time.  Godspeed!  Stephen Melillo

SON of the STORM at stephenmelillo.com: http://stephenmelillo.com.hostbaby.com/son_of_the_storm/ 

SON of the STORM at CD Baby: 
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/stephenmelillo7

An Incredible SON of the STORM Cast & Crew includes:

Victor, Adelmo Guidarelli
The Creature, Matt Branic
Elizabeth, Megan Pachecano
Rabble Rouser, Michael Ashby
William at 11, Karlene Grinberg
Theologian, Joshua Kohl
Scientist/Burgermeister, Eric McKeever
Military Man, Daniel Klein
Blind Man, Steven Fredericks
Daughter, Kacey Cardin
Son, Matthew Murphy
Announcer, Raymond Jones

The TRITONUS Chorus, Germany, Conducted by Klaus Brecht

Co-Producers, Adelmo Guidarelli, Amber L. Spradlin, Ric Schnupp
Technical Adviso, Curt DeMott
Continuity, Andrew Pencola
Artist, Irene Krauß
Foley, Peter Solomon Gross
Recording, Ric Schnupp, Hunter Berk
Recorded at Soundtrack New York

Music, Lyrics & Texts by
© STEPHEN MELILLO/STORMWORKS™ 
IGNA 1990-2016
All Rights Reserved. Produced by STORM®ecords


BIO: Stephen Melillo, 12 August 2016

In 2016, Stephen’s 4th Symphony was nominated for the Pulitzer and Nemmers Prize in Music. Winner of three 2009 Telly & Ava Awards for his 2005 Visualized Concert: THAT WE MIGHT LIVE, Stephen’s concert-version was also nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in Music. His 15 feature film scores include the Oscar-nominated 12:01PM, and most recently, The UNWILLING.  An ASCAP Concert Awards recipient each year since 1992, Stephen's more than 1140 works include 4 symphonies, several concerti and over 33-hours of Music for Ensembles of the 3rd Millennium™. With 28 CDs and 6 books on iTunes, and simply by word-of-mouth, Stephen’s pioneering, self-publishing entity known as STORMWORKS has gone from 0 to many thousands of worldwide renderings since 1992.

Digital Libretti here:  stormworld.com/DigitalLibretti/

More complete BIO on stephenmelillo.com:  
http://www.stephenmelillo.com/bio/ 

SON of the STORM

SON of the STORM by Stephen Melillo 13:42 Demo Excerpts

16 April 2019

Inspired by events, Painful and Good from yesterday’s events at the Cathedral of Notre Dame, 

“That Which Remains, a Hymn for Notre Dame” #1193, Musical Haiku 81 in 5:17 for String Orchestra by © Stephen Melillo, IGNA 16 April 2019, 2-3M, STORMWORKS, ASCAP.

The Grey

That Which Remains, a Hymn for Notre Dame

British by birth. Graduated from the Royal Academy of Music in London. 

Professional Concert Violinist and Early Music Soprano working in Italy and Europe. 

Founder of Cambodian NGO, the Kampot Traditional Music School for Orphaned and Disabled Children
Khmer Cultural Development Institute, Cambodia   

Oh Phnom Penh - Catherine Louise Geach, Violin

Catherine Louise Geach

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