Serenade To Yesteryear, a symphonic poem for chamber orchestra

This is a song about finding that girl who you know is your life partner.  Such a cool feeling if/when it happens.  

LOVE NEVER-ENDING
(c) JunkHeap Mar 19 2022 / Remixed-Remastered May 2025

So what you think when your day is so plain.
Looking out the window has the blasé.
I'm walking home and I'm thinking of you.

Chin on hand looking outside.
Unenthusiatically working through the  day dreams.
Don't you want to get away from the everyday?

C'mon on baby, join me on the street and dance.

I want to meet you at a coffee shop,
and pretend I don't know you.
flirt with you girl, like we first met.

Seasons changing, and reasons waning.
Forget the meaning, the deeper reason.
We keep on aging, our love keeps changing. 
A flower into a bouquet. 

I grab your hand and we go flying high over the city,
over the steeples and chimneys. 
Someone sweeping; 
someone sippin' a coffee on a balcony.

You and I smile at each other, 
with the wind in our ears, 
and we're changing gears.
No ones going to stop us...  
Our love for each other.

Love Never-ending

A political rant. Explicit Lyrics -just in  case you missed the title - Free D/L
I hope I'm just one of countless musicians in the free world lending a creative voice to express the outrage at Putin's 2nd invasion of Ukraine. With my own extended family roots in Ukraine, maybe I'm feeling the frustration and sense of being left alone to fight the bully on the block. Ukraine is the front line for the rest of Europe, and it cannot fall.  1939 here we come again. Lessons not learned. FU*K!
FU*K Putin and his enablers.
Time for a peoples' revolt. Where is Nevalny, the leader of the opposition? Oh, Putin had him poisoned and imprisoned. Time to revolt Russian people.
Ukraine: remember the Holodomor under Stalin. Never again!
Resist and tell Putin to "Stay The FU*K Out Of Ukraine!"
* if any musician would like to work with the vocals only and create an entirely new and more powerful message for Putin, DM me
hashtag SayNoToPutin
hashtag WeAreUkraine
hastag TheWorldStandsWithUkraine
hastag Russian Warship, Go Fu*k Yourself
https://twitter.com/rizwerto/status/1497001153514541079/photo/1

STAY THE FU*K OUT OF UKRAINE

My latest song with piano, vocals, bass, drums, clarinet, flute and guitar sounds! Thank you to my amazing boyfriend Sander for another fab mastering job here. @wane-of-summer ❤️🎶🎼🎵🎧🎤🎹⭐️❤️

OUT MY SYSTEM

The New Year

I like many am shocked and appalled at what is unfolding before us. In the midst of this darkness I salute the people who are opening their hearts and offering assistance to the refugees from this disastrous conflict.

Here are some UK links to appeals providing humanitarian aid. I'm sure each country has equivalent appeals happening now.

https://www.dec.org.uk/appeal/ukraine-humanitarian-appeal
https://www.oxfam.org.uk/oxfam-in-action/current-emergencies/ukraine-crisis-appeal
https://www.unicef.org.uk/donate/donate-now-to-protect-children-in-ukraine/

Empathy For The Agony

My new song with piano, bass, drums, electric piano, pizzicato strings, flutes, bells, koto sound and vocals! 😊🎶❤️🎤🎹🎧🎵🎼

Thanks to my lovely Sander for fabulous mastering service again. @wane-of-summer 😊❤️

SURPRISE

Who you are 

still early in the morning
and the day begins 
when everything s so beautiful
i'm blown away 
about how lucky i am 
suddenly the wind picks up
and black clouds are gathering
the storm explodes
without me understanding 
what really happened 

look at me i want to understand 
who you are 
explain me i need to learn 
who you are 
your dark moods torment me 
so tell me , who you are 

at the corner of my mouth 
a taste of honey 
and i feel like i touch the sky
as if this world was no longer the same 
i'll never live anything like that again
brutally , i wake up , everything s changed 
i tumble to the ground
this bad  bitter orange  taste in mouth

Qui Tu Es w/ Georg Boheme (translated lyrics)

The Wizard of Oz – We're Off To See The Wizard – Three Variations
October 2022
Duration: 2:00
Part of the Playlist, The Wizard of Oz: soundcloud.com/bruce-klepper-1/sets/the-wizard-of-oz-music-for
Loosely based on Harold Arlen's music for the Wizard of Oz 
Three short variations that will be used throughout the ballet
Painting by Marie-Jose Payannet
Music for Danse Etoile Ballet (www.danseetoile.org) who will be performing The Wizard of Oz January 2023 in Colorado.
For strings, clarinets, marimba, xylophone, piano, celeste, hand bells and percussion

The Wizard Of Oz - We're Off To See The Wizard - Three Variations

A Long Long Way to Go

Rado - X Session Op.11 No.1

Thanks for visiting. 
What's new:  I have completed my violin sonata. It is posted first in line to your left.  My new symphony, "Symphony for Chamber Orchestra," is posted and waiting for you.  rjb

Scores and parts for many of my works are available from my publisher Creative Spirit Music Publications. Go to  https://www.creativespiritonline.com and select "Robert John Brooks." There, you can also follow the score while listening to a recording.

My music is fully notated and is intended for live performance by live musicians.

After completing my doctorate in composition in 1979 from UNT, I took 30 years off from composing to join the computer software revolution as a software engineer.  In 2010 I began composing again and have not stopped. So, I find myself beginning (restarting?) a composition career rather late in life...but that's OK.  Most of the works posted here were written since 2010. 

Thanks for visiting.

Serenade To Yesteryear, a symphonic poem for chamber orchestra

Robert John Brooks, Composer

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