Love the grotesque here!! Great creative use of the waltz patterns combined with contemporary phrases

a danse macabre of the sorts, but it still makes me want to dance , love it

Nice short waltz wrapped in awesome modern composition.

Woww!!  This is awesome,  Great work Robert. Congratulations!!

I love it! So collorful and funny, absolutely my taste!

Structurally brilliant, musically fascinating, with a lot of cinematic potential in the many expressive moments. The violin bow bounces were my favorite. Will listen to this again and again. Is it published work?

Love it as full of orchestra and full of wonderful music classical work well done my friend

beautiful composition! really well done 👏

Wow…well that’s a waltz ! Electrifying! Well done Robert

Yön huilu - Nocturnal flute

We live in a mountainous area where people go skiing. The winters are getting warmer with less snow. This song is about the use of "snow canons" to make artificial snow.

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Summer Nights

Summer nights, cocktail by the beach, yeah
Moonshine, gentle summer breeze
Fireflies, dancing around me
Thunderstorm slowly rumbling

Summer days that I recall
Don’t know why they make me sore
But they're stuck in my head, not going anywhere
Children playing in the court
We were running in our shorts
Now we’re here together, let’s go and see the world 

Uhhh yeah
Remembering our summer nights, summer nights
	
Summer days that I recall
Don’t know why they make me sore
But they're stuck in my head, not going anywhere
Children playing in the court
They’re running in their shorts
They play together, ready ready to see, to see the world 

Anywhere, back to summer nights, 
Back to summer nights,
Back to summer nights, hey hey hey

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Mississippi Ride

If life's just a short interlude.
'pon which we just briefly intrude. 
If the light is the darkest 'fore dawn.
And the kids didn't ask to be born.
Just a dapple of light through the trees.
Feathers hang on the breeze.

If the world's just an apple in a space.
That the prothets can't put in its place.
It there anything out there or no?
Just a indifferent void that's let go.
Just a ember of fire that briefly transpires and glows. 

If someone comes up with a way.
For us to move forward and say.
Oh, remember when we used to pay.
For the things that were ours anyway  
All is dark and undone, all is pressed up and worn out, okay?

A light that can pierce through in the dark.
The right way to ignite the spark. 
A look from the edge of the sky.
An awkward exchange you let by. 
Sudden kindling of lovers who hated each other for years. 

If life's just a short interlude.
Upon which we just briefly intrude. 
Then as we're not here to stay.
Let's go out and enjoy the day.




[An Interlude]

Angelique Poteat Cello Concerto (2019)
Recording from November 15, 2019 performance by Efe Baltacıgil, cello, with the Seattle Symphony Orchestra and James Feddeck conducting at Benaroya Hall.
Provided courtesy of Seattle Symphony/Benaroya Hall

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Suite for String Orchestra
Duration: 15'
For More Information: https://robertpaterson.com/suite-for-string-orchestra
Publisher: Bill Holab Music: http://www.billholabmusic.com/composers/robert-paterson/
Purchase Sheet Music: http://billholabmusic.com/store/index.php?main_page=advanced_search_result&search_in_description=1&keyword=%22suite+for+string+orchestra%22

PROGRAM NOTE
Unlike some of my previous works, Suite for String Orchestra is not inspired by an over-arching programmatic theme. Although there are some technical and motivic relationships between some of the movements—particularly the first and fifth—the movements are generally unrelated and are meant to be noticeably distinct. It is in five short movements and is intentionally written in an “old-fashioned,” somewhat archaic style. I initially played around with the idea of titling this work Old-fashioned Suite or Old Time Suite, but there seems to be a sufficient sprinkling of “new fangled ideas” in this work to make these alternative titles seem inadequate.

The first movement, Allegro vivace, is written in a “mid-20th century American” style. My model for a few of the sections in this movement is the evocative, German phrase Sturm und Drang, which literally translated means “storm and stress.”

In the second movement, Trapped waltz, I imagine an ethereal, yet cognizant waltz floating above the stratosphere, looking for a place to rest, but hobbled and shackled by a pounding rock and roll drumset. I see this as a metaphor for the various dances throughout history that have come and gone but are continually vying for attention in contemporary culture. The movement fades out at the end, as if the waltz is eternally looking for a place to settle down. Admittedly, I was somewhat inspired by the collage works of Charles Ives.

The third movement, Nocturne, begins slowly and sadly, and I imagine the pulse in the beginning as similar to the gentle breathing of someone who is asleep. The middle of the movement is much more intense and violent, and the end is as soft and calm as the beginning. The first chair violin and the first chair violoncello have brief solos in this movement.

Although material from the middle of the fourth movement, Balinese scherzo, is derived from a Balinese scale, the beginning is somewhat chromatic and the ending is essentially based on the E-major scale. This movement is distinctive in that the orchestra is asked to play pizzicato almost the entire time.

The fifth movement, Finale: allegro moderato, is the movement that is most reminiscent of the first movement. The ending combines material from the beginning of both the first and fifth movements.

Suite For String Orchestra - II. Trapped waltz

I made this remix for a Remix contest on Skiomusic. The remixcontest is part of a Stand for Trees campaign feat Colombian musician Simon Meija! Although i did not win i got some nice ratings for this remix. I really enjoyed working with the stems and adding something of myself to it. I choose to add electric guitar rhythm and solo parts to the composition. Check out the StandforTrees website for more information on their projects! https://standfortrees.org/

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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.

Suite For String Orchestra - II. Trapped waltz

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