Pleasant classical track. Is this you also singing?

Their is a bright optimism about this piece that brings to mind Barber's Knoxville Summer of 1915. I love your use of musical space and the balance of the instruments.

Bright, airy and optimistic, captures the season perfectly.

Beautiful dramatic emotional piece, as usual, great job, Robert!!

Beautiful song and performance, Robert. Really enjoyed it.

This is a beautiful, amazing composition. The vocals are incredible.

Great classical song, very well composed and performed...

very playfull and in the same time very powerful, the flutes are beautiful in the mix, thank you and love to you

So beautiful Robert... Makes me a bit nostalgic for it is already ten years ago that i visited Washington Square. A magical neighbourhood with the arch and it's musicians and performers

This track is the opening theme of the Oratorio called "The Return of the King Of Kings"
This is the version orchestrated for the String section. I am currently creating the final version arranged and orchestrated for full orchestra and choir as well. That will be an other track on my playlist. Stay tuned for the upcoming release! :-)

„“Look, he is coming with the clouds,” and “every eye will see him, even those who pierced him”; and all peoples on earth “will mourn because of him.” So shall it be! Amen. “I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty.””
‭‭Revelation‬ ‭1:7-8‬ ‭NIV‬‬
https://www.bible.com/111/rev.1.7-8.niv

REDEMPTION

PROLOGUE - The Return of The King of Kings (Strings Section)

Not Living There Anymore

Brian sent me a track and I added to it. Much Fun!

Tenderfoot - Brian Butts / R Grigg

Habropoda Laboriosa

Second Life

Parla- piu-piano [cover ] Bejko Jimmy ]

Verse 1 
Don’t know why its taking this long
People always tell you how to do your job
Can’t tell any guy that they’re wrong
You’re seen as worse than them even when you’re not

Pre-chorus
You can’t say what you really mean
You’re apologizing constantly

Chorus
oh
Nothing is fair
oh 
Nothing is equal
And they don’t care
What happens to other people

Its not them all
But it’s enough
they don’t give reasons 
 they just say the word “because”
oh

Verse 2
Can’t wait till we can move on
But never forget the fights that we won
Maybe one day we can be the same
And no girl will live in pain

Pre-chorus
You can’t say what you really mean
You’re apologizing constantly

Chorus
oh
Nothing is fair
oh 
Nothing is equal
This fight’s a never ending haze 
that we will see through

And its not them all
But it’s enough
they don’t give reasons 
they just say the word “because”
oh

Bridge
We’ll fight our fight
We’ll stand our ground
For generations past and now
We won’t forget
The things we’ve lost
Gaining freedom always costs 

Chorus
oh
Nothing is fair
oh 
Nothing is equal
No matter how strong we will 
find a wall to break through 

And its not them all
But it’s enough
they don’t give reasons 
 they just say the word “because”

Outro
We’ll fight our fight
We’ll stand our ground
For generations past and now
For generations past and now

The Fight

Summer Songs (for Soprano and Chamber Ensemble)
Duration: ca. 24'

MOVEMENTS:
I. Summer Music (May Sarton)
II. The KIte (Anne Sexton)
III. Childhood (Sharan Strange)
IV. Moths (Jennifer O'Grady)
V. Summer Night, Riverside (Sara Teasdale)

Performers: American Modern Ensemble; Marnie Breckenridge, Soprano
For More Information: https://robertpaterson.com/summer-songs
Publisher: Bill Holab Music: http://www.billholabmusic.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=103_137&products_id=2333
Online Perusal Score: https://issuu.com/robertpaterson/docs/paterson_summer_songs__score-chambe
Also available as a version for soprano and piano: https://robertpaterson.com/summer-songs-piano-vocal-version

PROGRAM NOTE
There is a seemingly endless supply of poems about summer. After writing Winter Songs for bass-baritone and chamber ensemble or piano, I realized that I had inadvertently only set poems by male poets, so I decided to restrict myself to female poets for this cycle. I am well-aware that this could emphasize a potential cliché: woman can be viewed as more "summery" and men more "wintery,” but more than anything, this is merely a way to offer a course correction, so to speak, or even a yin and yang, as well as a way to create a balance between these two works.

Summer Songs begins with a setting of Summer Music by May Sarton, a light, happy, playfully musical poem filled with allusions to nature. The second movement is a setting of The Kite by Anne Sexton, a poem about honoring and enjoying the moment, and the simple things in life such as flying kites with children. Childhood, the third movement, is a setting of a poem by Sharan Strange about children capturing fireflies. The fourth movement, Moths, is a setting of a poem by Jennifer O’Grady about moths, but relating to late night conversation on a front porch. The cycle ends with a setting of Summer Night, Riverside, by Sara Teasdale, a passionate, warm, optimistic poem that muses on the timelessness of summer.

Summer Songs was commissioned by The ASCAP Foundation via the Charles Kingsford Fund, for Marnie Breckenridge and the American Modern Ensemble. Special thanks to Marnie Breckenridge for her assistance in selecting the poems for this cycle.

Commissioned by The ASCAP Foundation via the Charles Kingsford Fund, for Marnie Breckenridge and the American Modern Ensemble

ARTISTS
Robert Paterson, Conductor
Marnie Breckenridge, soprano
Sato Moughalian, flute
Pascal Archer, clarinet
Matthew Ward, percussion
Geoffrey Burleson, piano
Esther Noh, violin
Dave Eggar, cello

The Four Seasons

Summer Songs - I. Summer Music (Text: May Sarton)

Polystyrene

Is'nana: The Were-Spider is a multi award winner, including 2018 Fan Award, Rising Star, and Best Male Character, and 2019 Best Writer and Story of the Year (Glyph Awards). Is'nana is based on Anansi the trickster god of the Akan people of Ghana, whose stories have spread for centuries throughout Africa as well as the Caribbean. 

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Springs Songs (for Tenor and Chamber Ensemble)
Duration: ca. 20'

MOVEMENTS:
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)

Performers: American Modern Ensemble; Alok Kumar, Tenor
For More Information: https://robertpaterson.com/spring-songs
Publisher: Bill Holab Music: http://www.billholabmusic.com/composers/robert-paterson/
Purchase Sheet Music: http://billholabmusic.com/store/index.php?keyword=spring%20songs%20-&main_page=advanced_search_result&search_in_description=1
Also available as a version for tenor and piano: https://robertpaterson.com/spring-songs


PROGRAM NOTE
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 for the American Modern Ensemble.

AME ARTISTS
Robert Paterson, Conductor
Alok Kumar, tenor
Grace Law, flute
Nuno Antunes, clarinet
Samuel Z. Solomon, percussion
Geoffrey Burleson, piano
Victoria Paterson, violin
Peter Sachon, cello

Spring Songs - I. English Sparrows (Washington Square) (Text by Edna St. Vincent Millay)

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 - I. English Sparrows (Washington Square) (Text by Edna St. Vincent Millay)

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