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/
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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

The Four Seasons

Spring Songs - V. Spring Rain (Text by Sara Teasdale)

NEWS

●November 14, 2021
The new song "Cubism" will be sold under license.
It is on sale from a site called Audiostock. ;D
→https://audiostock.jp/audio/1139744

●July 7, 2020
I uploaded the song of vocaloid. ;D
→https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm37150797

●April 13, 2020
I uploaded a Blockchain - 般若心経  promotion video. xD
→https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm36667361

●November 19, 2019
I uploaded the song of vocaloid. :)
→https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm35976012

●July 23, 2019
I uploaded the song of vocaloid to the popular video sharing site "Nico Nico Douga" in Japan. ;D
→https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm35433086

●July 7, 2019
I uploaded the song of vocaloid to the popular video sharing site "Nico Nico Douga" in Japan. xD
→https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm35370263

●February 17, 2017
I tried the voice of Hatsune Miku in the orchestra.  
I am planning to record it with soprano voice next time. :)
Please listen it, if you don't mind. xD

Hatsune Miku→http://piapro.jp/html5_player_popup/?id=8646gc6xu0xeaveu&cdate=20161027000738&p=1

●January 28 2016
My song was adopted for a music contest in Ehime prefecture, in which a composer for FINAL FANTASY "Nobuo Uematsu" was a judge.
Thank you very much everyone!!! :D  

”Earth”→[https://creofuga.net/audios/80447]

●December 28 2015
"FUTURE" sold by "CRYPTON FUTURE MEDIA" has been released on December 17.
There is one song in "FUTURE" that I composed.
The number of copies is limited.

Amazon.com.→[http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B018VXPPT8] →Sold out!!!
Thank you so much everyone! xD

●November 25 2015
My song will be included in "SONOCA" which will be released by "CRYPTON FUTURE MEDIA" .
Thank you very much everyone!!! :D  
The releasing day is scheduled on mid December, 2015.

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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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Spring Songs - V. Spring Rain (Text by Sara Teasdale)

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