Music nixed with a dash wonder to my ears

Very lovely writing, those bassoon lines are delightful

so cool. so so great. the older I get,  the more I love original sound track music. nothing else like it right now

This is hilarious! Especially the part with the dentist husband and wife proposition! Really funny!

Libretto by Mark Campbell • Based on the short story of the same name by Stephen McCauley.
Duration: ca. 25'

Instrumentation:
Chamber version (10 instrumentalists): flute, oboe, bassoon, percussion, piano, 2 violins, viola, cello, bass.
Piano/vocal Version: three singers (soprano, mezzo-soprano, baritone) and piano. 

Commissioned by UrbanArias, Robert Wood, Executive and Artistic Director

Premiere of Chamber Version: American Modern Ensemble, Tyson Deaton, conductor, Walker Lewis, director, Dixon Place, New York, NY, January 16, 17, 18 and 19, 2016.

Premiere of Piano/Vocal Version: UrbanArias, Robert Wood, conductor, Atlas Performing Arts Center, Washington, DC, February 21, 27 and 28, 2015.

Publisher: Bill Holab Music: http://www.billholabmusic.com

For more information: http://robertpaterson.com/the-whole-truth/

Full Video: https://youtu.be/Dm0E7XPk8-o

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The Whole Truth

The Whole Truth: A Chamber Opera in Seven Scenes (World Premiere) - Robert Paterson/Mark Campbell

Live version: https://youtu.be/hIyFS6RHFyQ
On iTunes/Spotify/Apple/Everywhere now! 

Lyrics:

Asleep when we start to breathe
Dreaming of different things
Chorales in different keys

We are a wake
Disturbing the peace along the lake
Dig in your hands
And wash the sand back out again

We are a wake...

Your heart stopped and started a light in the room.
Won't you sing one time in my dreams of you.
Your songs cease. Unfinished melodies - 
Playing over and over inside of my head
Playing over and over inside of my head

Somber songs transcend the water
Carrying calls from memories ago
Laying down to take it in
Lake waters frozen and covers me whole

But peace was taken and left with honesty
And its timbre wavers in kindness

We are a wake
Disturbing the peace along the lake
Dig in your hands
And wash the sand back out again


The last songs are spiritual, or hope filled in a sense
Bringing love and pain into its call with innocence.
Should the truth become unraveled, and keenness lost in mumbled words;
May I be buried in the memories, and her voice be carried off the earth.

...her voice be carried off the earth.

This song has multiple meanings, but to capture them both into one - it's love where you are, and who you're with, because you and them are not there forever.

Waves - EP

Bandcamp

Cast

This is definitely not Xmas

It Never Started Out This Way

A song about starting a new life

LYRICS:

You moved south and you changed your life again
Your big mouth put you in a world of pain
The weight of the world upon your shoulders, strained
Your clean slate is shimmering in summer rain

You fell in with a band of miscontents
They taught you how to think in just the present tense
Life seemed pretty sweet for a time, on the sunshine coast with a bottle of wine
Until the past caught up, put you back into line again

We can do anything

If you marry me, we’ll make this all real
Our souls we’ll adorn with faith that we’ll steal
A look in the eye, a kiss on the mouth
With hearts open wide we keep moving south

Take a breath and you’re back on track again
Engine on and the fire is crackling
Take my hand and we’ll run through the sand to where the ocean spray brings an end to the land
And we can swim along to the sound of the mandolin

You moved south and you changed your life again
Your clean slate is shimmering in summer rain
The weight of the world upon your shoulders, strained
Your big mouth put you in a world of pain

Keep Moving South

12th street

Taken from the albums
Music is the key 1 & 2
Availabile at all main services

Music is the key 2

stream

Day Dream

psyche

Wind

Mellow Minded - "I Swear"

TRANSITION

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.

The Whole Truth: A Chamber Opera in Seven Scenes (World Premiere) - Robert Paterson/Mark Campbell

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