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Soar for C Trumpet and Piano (2022)
Duration: ca. 9'
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcZNDWBRidI
For more information: https://robertpaterson.com/soar
To Purchase Sheet Music: https://billholabmusic.com/product/soar/

Recording: David Puchkoff, trumpet; Geoffrey Burleson, piano
Recording Producer/Engineer, Silas Brown
Additional Audio Editing: Ian Striedter

Commissioned by Lexie Signor
World Premiere:  Mostly Modern Festival, Lexie Signor, trumpet; Geoffrey Burleson, piano; Helen Filene Ladd Concert Hall, Arthur Zankel Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs, NY, June 2023
Publisher: Bill Holab Music: https://billholabmusic.com/composers/robert-paterson/
For more information: https://robertpaterson.com/soar
Buy Sheet Music: https://billholabmusic.com/product/soar/

PROGRAM NOTE
Many composers associate orchestral instruments with animals to great effect, such as Prokofiev with Peter and the Wolf, Rimsky-Korsakov with Flight of the Bumblebee, Saint-Saëns with Carnival of the Animals, and perhaps most obsessively, Messiaen with birds from all over the world. In Soar, I associate the trumpet with an eagle, a bird that can fly as high as ten thousand feet and as fast as two hundred miles per hour. Like an eagle soaring above mountains, Soar requires the trumpet player to play fast and high, and both the trumpet and piano parts are, at times, quite virtuosic. In this sense, Soar is really meant as a show-off piece for expert trumpet players.

Soar for Trumpet and Piano

Ghosts In Mailand

well hell above and heaven below!!

Two Too Many is a pensive and introspective piece, where Jeremias Langsämmer carefully balances restraint and emotion. The pizzicato strings establish a quiet pulse, like measured footsteps in contemplation, while the cello and violin add depth and longing. Swelling string textures emerge gently, never overwhelming, but coloring the piece with a sense of unresolved thought. It’s music that feels like an internal dialogue—reflective, searching, and quietly expressive. Langsämmer crafts a space where emotion lingers in the pauses as much as in the notes themselves, making for a deeply affecting listen.

Two Too Many by Jeremias Langsämmer

Jeremias Langsämmer – As The Light Dims Slowly
A piano-led meditation unfolding at an adagio pace, As The Light Dims Slowly channels the hesitant phrasing of Erik Satie. Cello, violin, and soft strings offer gentle support, moving in and out of the piano's uncertain light. Sparse and reflective, the piece lingers in moments of pause as much as in sound, capturing the hush of evening as it slowly gives way to night.

Cover photography by Fraser Cormack. Find more of his work at https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61559043332127

As The Light Dims Slowly

I sneak into churches to play the piano cause I don’t have one. My friend wants to start a band and I want to call it Lost Mary cause I saw a literal sign. I can’t read music and I don’t know the chords I’m playing!! I also broke my thumb taking off a swimming costume in a hurry. Everyone’s really nice about the piano. My hobbies are piano, tennis and smoking cigarettes.

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well hell above and heaven below!!

i sneak into churches to play their pianos