Turned

한 번 보고 두 번 보고 자꾸만 보고 싶네 
멀리서 너를 보고 있다네 

향기로운 그대 입술에 
형광등이 비추는 천장을 보면서 

나는 너를 사랑했어 
저 여인은 왜 홀로 앉아있나 

들려오는 새소리에 
할 말도 없지만 

웃으면 웃었지 울으면 울었지 
왔으면 왔지 갔으면 갔지 

내가 살던 고향 마을 
내 친구 크리스 이야기 
멋모르던 10대 시절 
친구들의 엇갈린 운명 
쉬운 삶과 어려운 삶 

그대는 분명 지금보다 더 나은 사람이 될 수 있어
그대에게 최고의 모습을 기대하는 사람만 만나야 해

아름다운 그 모습을 자꾸만 보고 싶네
멀리서 너의 모습 그리네 

듣고 싶은 사랑 이야기
눈을 떴다 감었다 밤을 세우네 

나는 너를 좋아했어
저 여인은 무엇을 생각하나 

잎마저 흔들리고
보고 싶다네 

나는 몰라 알 게 뭐야
나는 몰라 알 게 뭐야 

내가 살던 고향 마을
내 친구 크리스 이야기
멋모르던 10대 시절
친구들의 엇갈린 운명
쉬운 삶과 어려운 삶 

그대는 분명 지금보다 더 나은 사람이 될 수 있어
그대에게 최고의 모습을 기대하는 사람만 만나야 해

The Morgue

The Morgue (시체안치소)

Forgotten Footprints

Let the music lift you both mentally and physically.

Smooth Station

8 years of hard work. 
no support from anyone. 
all coming from my mind , body and soul.

it is fucking on.

Synthesize My Blood

1 Synthesize My Blood

Spring Songs
Duration: ca. 20'
Instrumentation: tenor and piano
Performers: American Modern Ensemble - Alok Jumar, tenor; Geoffrey Burleson, piano
Recorded at Opera America's National Opera Center, Marc A. Scorca Hall, New York, NY, USA, June 4, 2019
Publisher: Bill Holab Music: http://billholabmusic.com/store/index.php?keyword=spring%20songs%20-&main_page=advanced_search_result&search_in_description=1
For More Information: https://robertpaterson.com/spring-songs-version-for-tenor-and-piano

I. English Sparrows (Washington Square) (Edna St. Vincent Millay)
II.  April 5, 1974 (Richard Wilbur)
III. Done With (Ann Stanford)
IV. The Widow’s Lament in Springtime (William Carlos Williams)
V. Spring Rain (Sara Teasdale)

PROGRAM NOTES
Spring Songs for tenor and chamber ensemble or piano is my third song cycle celebrating the seasons. As with the first two, Winter Songs for bass-baritone and Summer Songs for soprano, this cycle contains settings of poems by various American poets.

Whereas both Winter Songs and Summer Songs end with scenes in New York City, Spring Songs begins with New York: a setting of English Sparrows (Washington Square) by Edna St. Vincent Millay, a poem about a scene that takes place in the morning in Greenwich Village, a neighborhood in New York City where Millay lived in the early 1900s. The second movement is a setting of April 5, 1974 by Richard Wilbur, a poem Wilbur wrote in honor of Robert Frost’s one-hundredth birthday, and I interpret as being about overcoming self-doubt through wisdom, and about understanding the change of seasons, but also a change of mind. The third movement, Done With by Ann Stanford, I interpret to be about death and rebirth. Stanford symbolizes this by a house being torn down and the ground paved over, the now suffocated plant life yearning to break through. The Widow’s Lament in Springtime, the fourth movement, is a setting of a poem by William Carlos Williams. I interpret this poem as a modernist, pastoral elegy that uses images of nature to lament the death of a loved one. The final movement, a setting of the poem Spring Rain by Sara Teasdale, is about a happy memory of a lover brought about by an evening thunderstorm.

Spring Songs was commissioned by Rick Teller and Kathleen Rogers and was premiered at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall by the American Modern Ensemble, Alok Kumar, tenor, and Geoffrey Burleson, piano.

Spring Songs (Piano/vocal) - III. Done With (Ann Stanford)

Road2Fame

Illusion

unbearable

Liminal Spaces

Nothing Left

Brain Waves - Combstead / Robert Grigg

Time is Relentless

Do You Remember

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.

Spring Songs (Piano/vocal) - III. Done With (Ann Stanford)

Robert Paterson Composer