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.

Wonderful work. Watching the video makes it even better. Beautiful combination of instruments and choir. And I love the vibraphone sound ;)

CLASSICAL - RE

Bluebird river

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Benefietconcert Top Musici voor de Vrede in
Noorderkerk Amsterdam 1 April 2022
This is a live recording of my solo "Cold Wind" played during this concert.

Trumpet: Igor Iofe 
Organ: Cinzia Nistico
Sound recording: Amir Bar
Mastering: Igor Iofe
Photo: © Hans Thé

This is a an Armenian folk tune called 'Hovern Elan'. Traditionally it is played on duduk. In this arrangement I play it on a four valves quartertone trumpet with accompaniment of organ.

Cold Wind (LIVE in Noorderkerk)

Bridges to burn

A calm and soothing track about the world waking up. The chaotic shifting rhythms of the sounds of nature slowly fold into alignment.

The guitar sound is the Roland cloud version of the 303
Flute, Cello and Trombones are done with Spitfire Audio's BBC orchestra  plugin
Bass sound is Sylenth1
The rest are Logic Pro's stock plugins

Dawn - Long version

A re-mastered and finely-tuned version of this song from our second album

LYRICS:

In summertime we find you fallow
The waves are rolling into the shallow
The leaves are falling
The engine’s stalling now
The mood is calling out for a change

Oh, your honesty’s on show
And oh, it’s gonna have to go

The evening air descends with a promise
An unread note on a tree in a forest
The names are chosen
The night is closing in
The thought’s imposing on you now

Oh, your honesty’s on show
And honestly it’s gotta go

Your Honesty [2022 Rework]

Technical details Pa' Mi Morena:
Rhythm and solo guitar : Ibanez AG95QA DBS Artcore  Expressionist jazz guitar
Acoustic bass: Fender CB COSC
Saxophone: Thomann TAS180 Alto Sax
Drums : Loopz
Recording , mixing & mastering  July- November 2022
All instruments excepting drums  are played by The User


Pa' Mi Morena

Honey Hole - Combstead / Robert Grigg

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)

With Steve Gilmartin on bluesy slide guitar.

Shadows

Written: 2016
Duration: 6'
Instrumentation: solo five-octave marimba (four mallets)
Commissioned by Micheal Barnes
Performed by Michael Barnes
Performance: Temple University Klein Recital Hall
North 13th Street, Philadelphia, PA, April, 224
Publisher: Bill Holab Music: 
For More Info: https://robertpaterson.com/binary-hearts
Buy Sheet Music: http://www.billholabmusic.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=103_137&products_id=1343

PROGRAM NOTE
Couples who are in love often share the same interests, finish each other sentences, and laugh at the same jokes. In fact, Scientists at the University of California, Davis discovered that a couple’s breathing patterns and heart rates match up if they sit close to each other or look into each other’s eyes. They don’t even have to hold hands or talk for this to happen. However, a similar effect apparently does not occur among strangers, only couples in love. Coupled with this idea, I have always been fascinated by binary stars, which are two stars that rotate together, on the same axis. Binary Hearts for solo marimba is inspired by these phenomena. In this piece, I use heartbeat-like motives and ostinati, fast moto-perpetuo rhythmic sections and choral-like episodes, creating a joyous, gently shifting tapestry that is meant to reflect how two people feel when they are in love. Binary Hearts was commissioned by Micheal Barnes in honor of his marriage to Carly Prince.

Binary Hearts for Solo Marimba

Through music we can conceive, explore and dream of the vastness beyond ourselves, our planet and our universe.

COSMOS

Imaginary

ft. Freya Hall on violin https://on.soundcloud.com/jLHyn

Sonata for a Felled Tree

From the theater piece "Small Town in a Snuff Box" based on a story of V. Odoevsky

YouTube

Broken Organ

Aria from Hosanna of the Clouds (2025)
Soprano Solo, SATB Chorus, and Chamber Orchestra

Corrine Byrne, Soprano
Emmanuel Music
Ryan Turner, Conductor

LYRICS IN LATIN:

Expecta Dominum 
Viriliter age 
Et confortetur cor tuum 
Et sustine                                                              	

Ecce venit cum nubibus 
et videbit eum omnis oculus 
et qui eum pupugerunt 
et plangent se super eum omnes tribus terrae

Etiam 

Amen!	

Hosanna!                                                       

Ego sum Alpha et Omega 
principium et finis dicit Dominus Deus qui est et qui erat et qui venturus est Omnipotens 
	
Maranatha! 
O Jesu, O veni!	
Maranatha! (make room!)
O Jesu, festina!

LYRICS IN ENGLISH:

Wait for the Lord
act manfully 
and He will strengthen your heart
and will sustain you

Look, He is coming with the clouds,
and every eye shall see Him:
even those that that pierced Him
and they shall weep because of Him, all the tribes of the earth.

So it shall be

Amen!

Hosanna!

I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, 
says the Lord God, who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.

Maranatha! 
O Jesus, O come!
Maranatha! (Make room!)
O Jesus, hurry!

***

Look, He is Coming with the Clouds (Soprano Solo, SATB Chorus, and Chamber Orchestra)

A two-part story set in a circus. Animal Free Circus.

Painting by Martinopitture

No Animal Circus

No Animal Circus - Part 1

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.

Listen (for SATB Choir and Chamber Ensemble)

Robert Paterson Composer

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