This is my favorite of yours! Wow! Great job!

Wonderful Colors, and great performance by the orchestra, what orchestra is performing?

Love this! So much drama! Definitely telling a story

Beautiful performance as always, and I just adore your writing for orchestra.

This is a really nice orchestral composition, that has a lot of different instruments in it. It sounds quite magical to me, and it is impressive ✨

exciting and energized piece, matches the title and concept nicely

Great piece ! Huge selection of instruments, and so much variation ❤ ❤ ❤

Great track once again. Such variety and changes in mood throughout the piece.

An energetic composition with some great orchestration.

Duration: 10'
Instrumentation: 3[1.2.3./pic]2.2.2.-4.3.2.1.- tmp+3perc - str
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PROGRAM NOTES
The title of this work, Enlightened City, is both literal and figurative. This piece was originally written for the one-hundredth anniversary of the Ithaca High School Orchestra, and is inspired by the glowing city lights that seem to appear from nowhere when driving at night towards Ithaca on Route 13. In a broader sense, the title may refer to any American city that is lit up at night. The title also refers to Ithaca being called "the most enlightened city in America" by Utne Reader magazine. Throughout the work, there are optimistic-sounding dance-like sections, but also others that are colorful and dark, counter-balancing the lighter, brighter moments.

Enlightened City (for Orchestra)

American composer Robert Paterson is a true New Yorker—born and bred in Buffalo, he lived in Rochester and Ithaca for over ten years, in New York City for over twenty years, and now lives in Saratoga Springs, near the Adirondacks. Paterson’s colorful music embraces a wide variety of themes, everything from goddesses and online dating to mathematics and the environment. His music is filled with emotion and fierce rhythmic energy, marked by elegance, wit, and meticulous craftsmanship. Named Composer of The Year by the Classical Recording Foundation at Carnegie Hall, Paterson is the winner of the Alfred I. DuPont Award, and his opera Three Way won the Grammy® under Best Classical Producer of the Year. His music is often a Best of the Year pick on National Public Radio. His orchestral tone poem, Dark Mountains, regularly airs on NPR’s Performance Today. Three Way premiered with Nashville Opera, then BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music), and across the United States. Minnesota Orchestra, Louisville Orchestra, The Oratorio Society of New York, Buffalo Philharmonic, Albany Pro Musica, Albany Symphony, Musica Sacra, Austin Symphony, Vermont Symphony, and ensembles worldwide perform his works. Paterson gives masterclasses at the Curtis Institute of Music, New York University, the Aspen Music Festival, the Cleveland Institute of Music, and more. He is the Artistic Director and house composer for Mostly Modern Projects. Robert is a lifelong vegan and advocates for animals and the environment, celebrating the natural world with ground-breaking works such as his Triple Concerto, A New Eaarth, Listen, and I Go Among Trees.

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