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Written: 2016
Duration: 5'
Instrumentation: solo five-octave marimba (four mallets)
Commissioned by Micheal Barnes
Performed by MIDI
World Premiere: National Conference on Percussion Pedagogy Concert, University of Arkansas: Faulkner Performing Arts Center, Fayetteville, AR, May 22, 2017
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

Written: 2021
Duration: ca. 5'
Instrumentation: solo five-octave marimba (four mallets)
Commissioned by Micheal Barnes
Performed by MIDI
Upcoming World Premiere: Recital, Michael Barnes, marimba, Christ Church Cathedral Cincinnati, May 30, 2023
Publisher: Bill Holab Music

PROGRAM NOTES
The word ‘pyro' has a few different meanings. It can denote fire, heat, or temperature, but the meaning that most inspired this piece comes from the word 'pyromaniac', which is used to describe someone who has a compulsion to set things on fire. In particular, I was most influenced by a by a surreal, somewhat grotesque artwork by David Lynch called Boy Lights Fire (2010), in which a boy holds a book of matches in his left hand and a lit match in his right hand, while someone (perhaps his mother) appears in the distance, arms stretched out, seemingly in shock. I imagined the boy lighting their house on fire, and the house gradually burning to the ground. Pyro was commissioned by Michael Barnes.

Pyro for Solo Marimba (Digital Pre-Premiere)

Slippin On Bye - Robert Grigg & Combstead

ALFONSO LLORENTE: LYRICS, VOCALS. ACOUSTIC GUITAR, ELECTRIC GUITAR, SYNTH, BASS, DRUMS & CELLO
MRS A. VOCALS

GREY

We all have our little secrets
Knocking our doors ´til we forget
We all have our dreams lives
As we struggle with our strives
Let’s pretend to be heroes today
Let´s go up as the world comes down
Let´s turn black while everybody is white
But let’s don´t forget to remain grey
Somedays we wake up
Somedays we´ll won´t
As our secrets tap our windows
And we take off with our dreams
Let’s pretend to be the common folks
Let´s go down as the world goes up
Let´s turn white while everybody is black
And please don´t forget to stay grey, grey, grey, grey, grey, grey, grey
Just give me your smile
As you fly away
I´ll meet you on the sun
And we´ll sleep on the moon
I´ll wake up in your dreams
And we´ll find our little secrets
But let’s never forget to remain grey
We all have little secrets
We all have dreams lives
And as our secrets tap our windows
We take off with our dreams
Let’s pretend to be heroes tomorrow
Let’s pretend to be common folks today
Lets don´t go down while the world goes up
Lets be black, let’s be white and stay grey
Stay grey, stay grey stay grey

GREY (Alfonso Llorente)

Raven Heights

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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