Drama, lovely production and arrangement....

Magnifique développement musical d'une grande beauté émotionnelle 😍 🤩 🍀 🎶 

This is so great!!!! I just love it. Energy, brilliant orchestration, splendid harmonic colors... What a terrific work. Bravo Robert!

Once again I have enjoyed listening to your music! With diatonic patterns you get a very modern music, captivating and atractive with great narrative power. You get a lot out of de sextet ensemble, with a powerful dynamics you get, with the help of percussion, an almost symphonic level.

I like this combination of instruments. I think it's perfect for a movie. Great work, Robert!

Fantastic piece! One can feel the excitement, the intensity, the panic, the unrest... the movie-perfect criminal experience.

Fantastic work here. I love the playful woodwinds melodies. Bravo!!

Holy crap this was amazing! Is this the real deal? not VST? It sure as hell sounds like it to me. Absolutely stunning piece, real adventure like, would fit in a fantasy setting, a game like Fable for instance. 10/10

Wow! this is a very creative piece, the communication between the ensemble is quite refined, and the variety of rhythmic and melodic lines are awesome, the use of percussion instruments is brilliant. Congratulations!

An extra scene from West Side Story that Bernstein forgot to write...

Bill And Lulu

Blood falling failure

MAN IN THE MOON

did you think that we would be like this
Just hung on a wall
did you think that we could feel like this
just nothing at all…

just ask that man in the moon if he’d
ever fall again
just ask that man in the moon if he would
fall…. if he could…
fall…. if he would…

did you think the world would end like this
just stuck in a mall
did you think that we could reminisce
about nothing at all

just ask that man in the moon if he’d
ever fall again
just ask that man in the moon if he would
fall…. if he could…
fall…. if he would…

of all the faces you just
had to see there…
of all the places you just
had to be there… 

did you think that time would flow like this
just stuck in a crawl
did you think that we could co exist
wrapped up in a ball?
did you think the hand that made a fist
had nothing to scrawl?
did you think that we would feel remiss
about nothing at all

just ask that man in the moon if he’d
ever fall again
just ask the man in the moon if he would
fall…. if he could…
fall…. if he would…

fall…. if he could…
fall…. if he would…

of all the faces you just
had to see there…
of all the places you just
had to be there…

Man In The Moon

The Culling

piano with pedal sustains , alto sax , trumpet ,synth pad confront the abyss and find sadness and beauty

Dark nights of our souls

That Day

Lyrics written by David Lawrence 
music written by Klaas Versteeg
Played, recorded and sung by Klaas Versteeg.

On the surface of the sea, gentle ripples ride.
To us, the water looks so clear and warm.
But far away, for others, there is a crashing tide
And clouds that surely mean another raging storm.
 
If you’re lucky, very lucky,
Then life is like a walk on golden sands.
But it’s different, very different,
If you have to work the soil in troubled lands.

On the surface of the sea, gentle ripples ride.
To us, the water looks so clear and warm.
But far away, for others, there is a crashing tide
And clouds that surely mean another raging storm.
 
We’re so lucky, very lucky,
That fate decided we should live in peace.
When for others, many others,
Fears of war or drought and famine never cease.

For Others - Klaas Versteeg

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Sextet for Chamber Sextet (flute, clarinet, violin, cello, percussion and piano)
Duration: 8'
Publisher: Bill Holab Music:http://www.billholabmusic.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=103_137&products_id=1323
For more information: https://robertpaterson.com/sextet

PROGRAM NOTES
Although this sextet is not intended to openly convey a specific program, the work itself is inspired by television shows that expose people in the act of committing crimes. The form and materials are developed from imaginary scenes depicting a day in the life of a criminal: running scared (from the police), traveling on the interstate, having nightmares while sleeping (probably in a rundown motel in the middle of nowhere off Old Route 66), looming shadows and hysterical visions, breaking out in cold sweat when someone supposedly comes looking and traveling again at 1:00 a.m. As you would expect, the unfortunate criminal is finally caught in the end.

Star Crossing

Sextet

DESERT MIRAGE  Ian Parker

A music illustration of the after work atmosphere. 
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Photo by Ekaterina Novitskaya on Unsplash

After work

After work – (Elec Guitar) Ambient & Cinematic Music

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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