Name: Pawel Strzelecki: Scene before the Last Tartana's Race (2024) ["The Rover" on Joseph Conrad]. by Pawel Strzelecki, Ph.D. in Pawel Strzelecki: "The Rover" on Joseph Conrad [opera fragments, 2020-2025]
Duration: 4 min 4 s
Description: Strongly emotional scene with Arlette and Peyrol before the Last Tartana's Race.

Pawel Strzelecki: "The Rover" on Joseph Conrad [opera fragments, 2020-2025]

Opening [soloists, choir & orchestra] (2020) of the lyric opera "The Rover" to the libretto on Joseph Conrad (under construction).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPwM0H9be50&t=3s

Pawel Strzelecki: 1. Opening /Orch. & Choir/ (2020) ["The Rover" ("Il pirata") on Joseph Conrad ].

From the Album "Short Songs For Tall Minds" (2022)
A song dedicated to everyone's favorite outdoor chair, the monobloc. So many good times and memories sitting in these things. Functional design meets a simple manufacturing process. Unfortunately, they are made with polypropylene plastic, which will be around for thousands of years. These are like ecological disaster zombies that will never die.  Just look around, they're everywhere. But hey, this is a good time song about them. Thanks for listening!

 Lyrics:
When I come home
When the work is through
I just want to get in my backyard
In the neighborhood
I need some backyard sky
I need some friends of mine
Put out all the drinks
And give it a little time
Get the cable
Run it out from the living room
Out to the backyard
And over by the pool
Plug in the boom box
Over by the slide
Get ready
For the rising tide
Sitting in my Monobloc
My favorite outdoor chair
I am impressionistic for functional design

You know, these chairs
When it comes to history
They'll be around much longer
Than you and me
Alex says you need to go outside
If you want to drink liquor and smoke
Sit in my rich man's plastic throne
Even though I'm broke
(Broke, broke, broke)
Hollow in my Monobloc
My favorite outdoor chair
 Monobloc (Yeah!)
It's lightweight, like this song
And the music in the air
Sitting in my Monobloc
Ubiquitous
And everywhere
In my Monobloc
Monobloc...

MonoBloc

Title/Out Of Time(J.J.And Khan)
Vocals, song & lyrics/Khan
 Bass ,Drums, piano, synth,production/J.J.Terrell

J.J.Terrell
https://soundcloud.com/j-j-terrell

Lyric

I don’t wanna miss moments
I don’t wanna miss miracles
I don’t wanna miss mysteries
I don’t wanna miss my life

The man who can see
 mystery in all things lives 
outside of time.

Every cloudy day
Every Single day
Every mundane life give me miracles
私は瞬間を見逃したくないの
私は奇跡を見逃したくないの
私は神秘を見逃したくないの
私は人生を見逃したくないの
あらゆるものに神秘を見る人は
時間の外に生きている
曇り空の日々
孤独の日々
どんなありふれた日々も奇跡を与えてくれる

Outside Of Time (J.J. And Khan)

Pierre Bordetti productions (c) 12/2023.
Composed, arranged, performed, and produced by:
Pierre Bordetti

I wish you all a Merry Christmas, an.d the best for the coming year

Let's stay optimistic!!

Joyeux Noël et le meilleur pour l'année à venir.

Restons optimiste !!

-------- Passage to 2024 ---------

Only a few moments left,
a few days, a few hours,
we end this beautiful year of shit,
we start the countdown,

A year too dry,
A year too wet,
a year with too many wars,
too much hatred,
too much selfishness,

Before the passage,
the new promises,
new hopes,
of happiness,
health,
but above all peace,

the passage,
towards crazy hope,
of a better world,

the passage,
towards crazy hope,
of a better world,

Passage to 2024

Passage To 2024

The Map

Short Interlude for orchestra (2024), element of the lyric opera "The Rover" to the libretto on Joseph Conrad (under construction).

Pawel Strzelecki: "Night Interlude" for Orchestra (2024) ["The Rover" on Joseph Conrad].

Opening scene:
1) Peyrol leaves his ship in Toulon harbour after dekades of his absence in his homeland.
2) Peyrol is walking through the harbour towards offices' building.
3) Peyrol's "Leitmotif" (introduced in Ouverture).
4) Peyrol's recitativo accompagnato with sigh motives (exposed in Ouverture).
5) Peyrol sings: "I left ship in Toulon, in my homeland, in my homeland".
6) The lights on the water's surface. Peyrol entered Harbour offices' building (orchestral "comment").
7) The near church bell tolls introducing next "number".

Pawel Strzelecki: 2. In Toulon Harbour. Scene 1 (2024) ["The Rover"/"Il pirata" on Joseph Conrad].

OddsR

Strongly emotional scene with Arlette and Peyrol before the Last Tartana's Race.

Pawel Strzelecki: Scene before the Last Tartana's Race (2024) ["The Rover" on Joseph Conrad].

I do not own the copyright to this music. I am not profiting from it's dissemination. I encourage the listener to seek out versions of this tune on a streaming audio platform of their choosing. "Stella by Starlight" is a popular song by Victor Young. You can find many versions of this tune. It is a jazz standard.

I have used iReal Pro for the drums and piano parts here. I played the guitar part on a Godin 5th Avenue Kingpin. The bass is a Yamaha BB434.

Stella

Autumn Dream (2021) Anthology CD4 Track 01

Peace At Last (2022) Anthology CD2 Track 03

Scevola's story in the eyes of Peyrol and Arlette (2024), "The Rover" to the libretto on Joseph Conrad (under construction).

Pawel Strzelecki: Scevola's Story (2024) ["The Rover"/"Il pirata" on Joseph Conrad]

Peyrol's first tartana-boat race [orchestral fragment] (2025) from the lyric opera "The Rover" to the libretto on Joseph Conrad (under construction).

Pawel Strzelecki: The First Tartana's Race (2025) ["The Rover"/"Il pirata" on Joseph Conrad].

This is the Finale to my Horizons Suite for Concert Band. I wanted a strong finish for this one. This will be available to purchase (Full Score & Parts) in the next few weeks from my usual publishers Sheet Music Plus and Sheet Music Direct. I hope you enjoy listening and if you do buy the sheet music please let me know where it has been preformed. 

Horizons Mvt 3 Finale

Of course, it's not Halloween yet, but here's a sneak preview 😀
The choice of title reveals that this is a traditional folk song with elements of neoclassical music.

Samhain, which is pronounced “Sauwen” (with a breathy “w”), marks the beginning, end and new beginning. While the time of summer has finally come to an end, a new year is already beginning...

VIDEO

Samhain

Polish Composer (M.A., 2002, "F. Chopin" Academy of Music in Warsaw,  Prof. Zbigniew Baginski's class), music theorist (M.A., 2000, "F. Chopin" Academy of Music in Warsaw, under Prof. Maria Piotrowska), musicologist (Ph.D., 2005, University of Warsaw, under Prof. Zbigniew Skowron), researcher, lecturer.
So far he has written 127 pieces: 12 symphonies (2017-2024), 3 symphonic poems (2001-2011), 4 concertos with orchestra (organ, piano, two pianos, flute, 2002-2025), 22 string quartets (2001-2025), 17 sonatas for different solo instruments with piano (violin, cello, oboe, trombone, etc.), chamber music as Piano Trio (1998), Piano Quartet (2021), Piano Quintet (2003), String Trio (2021), numerous songs for voice and piano, sacred works, e.g. Mass for soloists, choir, organ and orchestra (2002, rev. 2024), and electronic music.  
The stylistic and technical parameters describes the text below:
https://pawelstrzelecki.wixsite.com/music
The author of the crucial, first and original book (used as academic manual and present in many libraries) on "New Romanticism" in Polish music after 1975, containing interview of the author with Krzysztof Penderecki (2022, English Language Edition).
https://www.peterlang.com/document/1282565?fbclid=IwAR1Pm40flHnsqH07OsvXdXwV1ZwLeVLOmfrxkqe3wxL5rsJioluBL-2FQ9M#document-details-anchor
Polish edition (2006):
https://mi.pl/pl/p/Pawel-Strzelecki-Nowy-romantyzm-w-tworczosci-kompozytorow-polskich-po-roku-1975/59

The book was quoted in: Andrea Bohlman: "Musical Solidarities. Political Action and Music in Late Twentieth-Century Poland". Oxford University Press, 2020, pp. 208, 266. The link to the quotation (p. 208):
https://books.google.pl/books?id=uNnBDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA208&dq=bohlman+nowy+romantyzm&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjoyL-x-Lf4AhXOk4sKHUWMChUQ6AF6BAgEEAI#v=onepage&q=bohlman%20nowy%20romantyzm&f=false

Pawel Strzelecki: Scene before the Last Tartana's Race (2024) ["The Rover" on Joseph Conrad].

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