Nice feel good piano track to forget everything. It is giving very positive vibes to the whole body. [via https://sc.repostexchange.com]

A well played piano track full of feeling. Good job.

quite a soft and emotional relaxing track

Empty has entered the @re-ex Best of the Rest chart at no.10 - such wonderful playing... What a lovely touch! Really dynamic performance, good job :)

good track, your way of playing is intense and seems to be spontanous.  It's great, i like!

beautiful and nicely soft melody with awesome performance.

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House Of Glass Hearts

Duration: ca. 9'
Music by Robert Paterson • Lyrics by David Cote

Instrumentation:  soprano, baritone, and chamber ensemble (wind doubler [flute, B-flat clarinet, oboe], violin, cello, percussion, piano)
Performed by American Modern Ensemble, Marnie Breckenridge, Soprano, and Jorell Williams, Baritone

Purchase Sheet Music (available with In Real Life II and In Real Life II): http://www.billholabmusic.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=103_137&products_id=2778
Extraordinary may be performed as a stand-along work, or with In Real Life I and/or In Real Life II.

For more information:
Version for Soprano,  Baritone, and Chamber Ensemble: https://robertpaterson.com/in-real-life-ii-version-for-baritone-and-chamber-ensemble
Version for Soprano, Baritone, and Piano: https://robertpaterson.com/in-real-life-ii-version-for-baritone-and-piano

PROGRAM NOTE
As a follow-up to our song cycle for soprano and chamber ensemble (or piano), Robert and I  agreed the concept of five characters looking for love online should have a male counterpart. Written for baritone and chamber ensemble, In Real Life II looks at five contemporary men clicking their way to second chances and romance. In “No Frog” we meet a prototypical player, a guy who fluffs his profile, but the truth keeps slipping out. The tone shifts with “Sola Fide,” in which a U.S. veteran of the war in Afghanistan explains the tattoo on his chest and the wounds inside. An older gentleman envisions one last fling in the irreverent “Die with Me.” In “Still Vamping,” a gay man muses on his start-and-stop romantic history. Finally, in “Nice-Plus,” an everyday guy reveals a hidden passion. In Real Life II was commissioned by American Modern Ensemble with funding from the Doctorow Family Foundation.

American Modern Ensemble: In Real Life

In Real Life

Extraordinary (Version for Soprano, Baritone, and Chamber Ensemble)

Written: 2020
Duration: 4'
Instrumentation: brass quintet (2 B-flat trumpets [Harmon and straight mutes required], horn [mute required], trombone, tuba or bass trombone)
Commissioned by the Atlantic Brass Quintet
World Premiere (Live): Atlantic Brass Quintet, Mostly Modern Festival, Filene Ladd Concert Hall, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, USA
For More Info: https://robertpaterson.com/dash
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BXoJYkY_A4
Publisher: Bill Holab Music: https://www.billholabmusic.com/composers/robert-paterson/robert-paterson-works/
Online Perusal Score: https://issuu.com/robertpaterson/docs/paterson_dash__score-perusal_

PROGRAM NOTE
"Dash" is inspired by common meanings of the word ‘dash’: to travel or run somewhere in a great hurry, or to hurl an object with great force, often with destructive effect. I was also inspired by other meanings, such as adding a dash of something to something else, for example, adding a dash of salt or pepper. A dash is also a type of punctuation mark. There are em dashes—like these—as well as en dashes, used to indicate spans of time or ranges of numbers, like 20–21, or hyphens, which denote compound adjectives, like well-known brass quintet. An underscore, which emphasize words, phrases, or sentences, can also look like a dash. In music notation, a dash is called a tenuto, and is used to indicate emphasis when placed under or over notes. Of course, in this piece, I had to include plenty of tenutos. "Dash" was was commissioned by the Atlantic Brass Quintet.

Dash (for Brass Quintet)

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a cold night

What Is This

Song Explanations at the end!:

If i could ever got the chance to met the man with the hat 
i would ask him about the meaning of the words that he said (1)
and how he knows so many things aboutthe past, the present and the future (1)

twenty years of boredom is just a blink of an eye (2)
Against the fears for freedom which is threatened to die
how many why's are justified when the answer stands written by the clouds in the sky

the holy dove moved back to it's cote to hatch the egg
with every single breath she drew full of love she awaits birth (3)
how many miracles do you waiting for?
if they've already catch the sight light of day before (4)

His songs of hope are not like songs of people in danger 
who whish that their desasters would not last any longer (5)
He does not have to drown out the sirens of warning
To amplify his feelings that want to be listened 

he looked at me and asked me why? I wanted to know this from him
especially now, on a Wednesday evening of all nights?  
I wondered and asked him what? difference does it make  
He said wendsday seems to be the symbol of randomly choosen time   
Without beginning and without any end like a clock that will never chime  
It does not matter what was before or what happen after that (6)

And his eyes told me that he had seen more than
we might imagine together at all  
But everybody knows, that it's now or never  (7)

He was lost for so long his voice has falling in silent 
From the distance of the past only his verses reminded 
but he came back to close the gashes
reappear and rise like the phoenix from the ashes (8)

With wine and cigarettes as a formula with which 
he’s searching for his golden voice like an alchemist (9)
Without any choice he reaches our hearts  (10)
so calm and gentle, so somber and 

if i ever come by, to that hotel in New York 
i devote myself to his paintings and his art works (11)
climb into one of the waiting limousines
sit next to the figures of beauty from his dreams (11)

the lock of hair, one of his sleeping enemies (12)
has falling to the ground right in front of my knees (13)
while i listen to these poems, of which he can be very proud
But he has just turned his back from the crowd (also 11)

As he looked at her, she started to cry! Impressed by his enchanting charm 
so many ladies have fallen for him 
and to be for him at his feet   (14)
it was just simply his own way   
Without any self-conceit  

He is the keeper of truth, the guardian of beauty 
his vision can’t never be wrong  (15)
A relentless seeker with deep suffering 
who became, who he really was  
filled with loneliness, success and love
he was able to pass them on to us  
And his songs are the proves how we can achieve
so much, with every single word  
But everybody knows, that it's now or never
1:"The Future". 
- Give me back the Berlin wall
- Won't be nothing, Nothing you can measure anymore
- I've seen the future, it is murder
- You never will, you never did 
2:"First we Take Manhtten"
- They sentenced me to 20 years of boredom 
3:"Hallelujah"
- the dove is now "pregnant" and must hatch the egg
4: Refers to "Waiting for the Miracle"
5: Songs singing in air raid shelter bunker during Worl War II
6: personal story
7: Means that many people are not interested in this kind of lyrics. They are only concerned with the now
8: 1996, Cohen was ordained until he returned in 2001 
9:"Tower of Song" born with a golden voice
10:"A singer must die"
11:"Chelsea Hotel #2"
Visit Chelsea Hotel wher  hung some artworkds paintings
- "While the limousines wait in the street."
- "Who are oppressed by the figures of beauty,"
- "You just turned your back on the crowd" (This line appears later in my lyrics)
12:"Famous Blue Raincoat"
- Yes, and Jane came by with a lock of your hair
- Well, your enemy is sleeping, and his woman is free
13:"I'm Your Man"
- "Not by begging on his knees"
14:a lady boarded the stage, fell at his feet and gave him a rose.
he took it  andSmiledCharmingly.
15:Singer mustDie

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