The inspiring choir sounds with a melodic chamber backing is a winning recipe and this piece certainly wins hands down!

Beautiful and nicely impressive composition. The change of pace around 15th min is so greatly dynamic.

This is sublime I'd love to be there for a live performance but can get ample pleasure from listening to this track over and again. Thank you for sharing Robert.

Impressive. Does the cover show a moment of the recording?

A really dynamic piece which puts the choir and the chamber orchestra through their paces! Excellence!

Magnificent work! How much you take out of a sextet! You get a lot of music with only six instruments (plus choirs, of course). Starting from diverse and heterogeneous elements, you get a very well fastened and consistent weaving . Beyond his (great) beauty, it invites emphatically to listen (deeply) and act against everything you denounce in its verbal message.

Promises

Victory - Combstead / Robert Grigg

The vast ocean - the darkness, the beauty, the danger, the depth, all in one song as it draws you in deeper..

The Call Of The Deep

Abyss

New Epic 14 min  Fantasy Score !
This song cost me a lot of work. I hope you like it 
Nomax

"Eragon" Epic Fantasy Score Prod. and Composed by Nomax

La joie des enfants jouant dans la neige. La fin de l'hiver pourtant se rapproche. Dans quelques jours tu quitteras ton pays, pour renaître là-bas. Toi qui survis ici, cette belle île te tend les bras.
The joy of children playing in the snow. The end of winter, however, is approaching. In a few days you will leave your country, to be reborn there. You who survive here, this beautiful island reaches out to you.

T-313.997.471-9

Invitation au Voyage

Invitation Au Voyage - KRT Production

What I could have been, washed out by the salty sea, oh it is just a dream, a dream that's obsolete. 

What a place to be, a place where you can go and see, the things that you could be, all that you could dream. 

Now you'll never know, anywhere's the way to go, oh, It's all for the show, now you'll never know. 

Washed out by the sun, this sun is just the current one, the bun that traps the fly, now you wave goodbye. 

Just wasted on the sand, wasted in a foreign land, wasted like you planned, you wasted all your hands. 

Time it ticks away, ticks away another day, the days they will not stay, the days they go away. 

What I couldn't see, washed out by the salty sea, reminds me of the time, I searched but couldn't find. 

A scar that fades away, reminders of the former days, the days that fade away, the days they often change. 

The salty sea imbibes, more than you would care to mind, you're full up to your eyes, the salty sea revives. 

Salty Sea

Above the clouds

Love Wins

How should I know you?
By the bruises on my neck
But I still love you
Cos it's all that we have left

I've hidden my black eyes
Still feel those Chinese burns
One more of your Glasgow kisses
I don't even feel it hurt

Oh, you hate me and you throw your stones
Hit me with sticks
And break my bones
It's the only thing I've ever known
But love wins, love wins (x2)

There's a tale they used to tell
As young men marched to glory
Speak to them on their return
They'll tell a different story
It would cause much less fuss 
If we could make them more like us
Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori

Oh, pin a ribbon on his chest
Close the casket ,lay him to rest
And just in case you forget
Love wins, love wins (x2)

I guess I just don't recognise
How you have made me civilized
Bloody sun in bloody skies
Pro patria mori

It should come as no surprise
It all unfolds before your eyes
The earth first screams
And then it dies
You never saw the warning

So go ahead and make your plans
The results are never in your hands
A game that you don't understand
Love wins, love wins (x2)

By the left, 2, 3, 4
Hut, 2,3,4
Present arms 2,3,4
Fire 2,3,4

Love Wins by These Guitars Say Sorry

Written: 2021-22
Duration: 20'
Video: https://youtu.be/X107ODtr54s
for SATB choir (3 choir members each playing a single crotale or Tingshas) and instrumental sextet (flute [doubling alto flute], clarinet, violin, cello, percussion [vibraphone, concert bass drum, four concert tom-toms, large tam-tam, medium suspended cymbal, medium and small triangles, Mark tree, medium and large wood blocks], and piano).
Publisher: Bill Holab Music: https://billholabmusic.com/store/index.php?cPath=103_137&main_page=product_info&products_id=4349
For More Information, Text, and Perusal Score: https://robertpaterson.com/listen

PROGRAM NOTE
Most people want to be heard and want to be loved, and we are usually better at talking than listening. We are often so immersed in ourselves that we not only forget to listen to others in a meaningful, effective way but also to the world around us. With that in mind, Listen is about listening to each other and the world around us more deeply, especially concerning our environment. In that sense, this piece could have been titled “Deep Listening,” but since this work is meant to be more a call to action than an alliteration of a musical concept, I felt that Listen was a more appropriate title. Listen uses a tapestry of quotes from various well-known sources, both ancient and contemporary, that are about or related to the environment. My main goal through this piece is to create a musical call to action, encourage listening, and help to raise awareness about our environment and the natural world around us.

Listen is scored for choir (3 members playing Tingshas or crotales) and chamber ensemble, consisting of a flute, clarinet, violin, cello, percussion, and piano, and was commissioned by and is dedicated to Ember, Deborah Simpkin King, music director, and conductor, in honor of their 25th anniversary.

Listen (for SATB Choir and Chamber Ensemble)

In Ours Moments

Described by the press as “a modern day master” (AXS.com) and the “highlight of the program” (The New York Times), Robert Paterson has won awards for his music in virtually every classical genre. The Classical Recording Foundation at Carnegie’s Weill Hall named Paterson Composer of The Year in 2011, and his music has been on the Grammy ballot for the past six seasons. His works have appeared on National Public Radio’s Best of the Year lists for classical music and regularly appear on radio playlists across the United States.

Paterson’s music has been performed by over one hundred world-class ensembles, including Musica Sacra in NYC, Nashville Opera, Minnesota Orchestra, American Composers Orchestra, Vermont Symphony Orchestra, Delaware Symphony, Austin Symphony, Louisville Orchestra, Buffalo Philharmonic, American Modern Ensemble, Atlantic Brass Quintet, Imani Winds, and Ensemble Aleph in Paris.

Recent commissions include Ghost Theater, for the Albany Symphony, Shine for the American Brass Quintet, Moon Trio for the Claremont Trio and new works for the Vermont Symphony Orchestra, Eastman Wind Ensemble, and numerous choirs, including Ember and The Esoterics. Paterson’s debut choral album, Eternal Reflections, was released by Musica Sacra and Maestro Kent Tritle in 2015.

Paterson has received awards for his works in virtually every classical genre, including the A.I. duPont Composer’s Award from the Delaware Symphony, a three-year Music Alive grant from the League of American Orchestras and New Music USA, the American Composers Forum Jerome Composers Commissioning Program, the Utah Arts Festival Commission Competition, and fellowships to Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, Aspen Music Festival, the Atlantic Center for the Arts and the Copland House.

In 2005, Paterson founded the American Modern Ensemble (AME), which spotlights contemporary music via lively thematic programming. He serves as artistic director as well as house composer, frequently contributing new pieces to the ensemble. In 2018, Paterson co-founded the Mostly Modern Festival (MMF), an annual, three-week summer music festival that highlights contemporary music, which takes place at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, NY. He also founded American Modern Recordings (AMR), an affiliated record label that is distributed by NAXOS. Paterson’s recordings are also featured on the Capstone, Centaur, Summit and Riax labels.

Born in 1970, Paterson was raised in Buffalo, New York, the son of a sculptor and a painter. Although his first love was percussion, he soon discovered a passion for composition, writing his first piece at age thirteen. While an undergraduate student, Paterson pioneered the development of a six-mallet marimba technique, and released the first-ever album of six-mallet music, Six Mallet Marimba in 2012 (AMR) to a sold-out crowd at the Rubin Museum in Chelsea, NYC. 

Paterson holds degrees from the Eastman School of Music, Indiana University, and Cornell University, and gives master classes at numerous colleges and universities, most recently at the Curtis Institute of Music, Aspen Music School & Festival, New York University, and the Cleveland Institute of Music. He resides in New York City and Saratoga Springs, NY with his wife, Victoria, his son, Dylan, and their cat, Cookie. For more information, visit robertpaterson.com.

[May, 2020]

Listen (for SATB Choir and Chamber Ensemble)

Robert Paterson Composer

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