I love these interlude type pieces, in isolation it makes me wonder what they lead to which is intriguing.

Great modulations, I might "borrow" some of your ideas.

can you see me

i love you

A guitar solo through the stars.   A journey through the universe with a full orchestra strings, epic synths, 80's retro piano, and a focus on epic and relaxing float through the stars with an 80's theme.

Solo to the Stars

The acoustic version of our Song THE SONG YOU WROTE :)

The Song You Wrote (Acoustic)

Feed The Beast

Faded pictures in Kodachrome
California style
Venice Pier standing all alone
Wearing a counterfeit smile
That’s the way it always was with us
I guess we tried to hide
But there’s things that the sunshine can never reach
We keep locked up inside

Anytime you want me to go
Change your mind and ask me to stay
I guess now that I’ll never know
What I do to drive you away

And I guess we had a decent run 
Weigh the cost of tears we cried
But the common ground that we lost and won
Now we’re on different sides
I drove down to the beach this morning
Saw the dawn light shining through
Looked just the same as your blue eyes blazing
I can’t get through to you

Anytime you want me to go
Change your mind and ask me to stay
I guess now that I’ll never know
What I do to drive you away

Lady of the canyons
We went so far
Lady of the mountains
Like a falling star

Lady of the desert
Chasing your mirage
Lady of the moonlight
Wonder where you are

Falling Star

Unsettled Minds is a sweeping collection of orchestral adaptations that transform Beethoven’s Appassionata themes and beyond into symphonic meditations for restless souls. Each movement embraces turbulence and tenderness: brooding strings hover on the edge of silence, woodwinds whisper with searching fragility, and brass resound with fateful grandeur. Expanding Beethoven’s architecture into Rachmaninoff-like romantic musings of lush textures and cinematic dramas that capture the beauty and unease of an unsettled mind — where moments of stillness are broken by storms of emotion, and melodies carry both torment and transcendence. 

Performed in the imagined voice of Europe’s greatest orchestras, this album is an invitation into a dream state where longing, unrest, and fragile nobility collide.

13. Drama Undoings

ABOUT THE OPERA
An Il trittico for the Tinder generation, Three Way is a new opera about the present and future of sex and love with music by Robert Paterson (The Whole Truth) and a libretto by David Cote (Blind Injustice). In three playful acts, average heroes explore the worlds of android lovers, BDSM and polyamory in a quest for “more” in today’s hyperconnected and gender-fluid world. Featuring Nashville Opera, conducted by Dean Williamson. Original cast recording.

CREATIVE TEAM
Robert Paterson, Composer: http://www.robertpaterson.com | http://www.robertpaterson.com/three-way
David Cote, Librettist: http://www.davidcote.com

THREE WAY SITES
Three Way Site: http://www.threewayopera.com/
Nashville Opera: http://www.nashvilleopera.org/three-way/
American Opera Projects (AOP): http://www.aopopera.org/threeway/

Materials available from Bill Holab Music: http://www.billholabmusic.com/threeway/
Three Way Arias - Male: http://www.billholabmusic.com/store/i...
Three Way Arias - Female: http://www.billholabmusic.com/store/i...
Three Way Piano/vocal score: http://www.billholabmusic.com/store/i...

ORIGINAL CAST
Danielle Pastin, Soprano: http://www.daniellepastin.com
Courtney Ruckman, Soprano: http://www.courtneyruckman.com
Eliza Bonet, Mezzo-Soprano: http://www.elizabonet.com
Melisa Bonetti, Mezzo-Soprano: http://www.melisabonettimezzo.com
Jordan Rutter, Countertenor: http://www.jordanrutter.com
Samuel Levine, Tenor: http://www.samuellevinetenor.com
Wes Mason, Baritone: http://www.wesmasonstage.com
Matthew Treviño, Bass: http://www.matthewtrevino.com

Three Way

Three Way - Act III. Masquerade: If Our Friends Saw Us Here They’d Die!

Three Way - Act III. Masquerade: Transition: Cheerful

The Fear

Covered up 
Deeper cuts
Rips and tears in skin 
Become more 
Over time
(And) Over time more within
 
No matter what the way
All lives here decay
No matter words we say
Memories erase

Go on and gnaw
Get deeper til  teeth hit bone 

What may exist without being known
It makes the fear creep in and spread slow
For what is here now in plain sight
Focus remaining life on borrowed time

In time there heals despair 
Eyes on lines of sight
Ones that make you feel there
But never here and never right 

Bring forth the will to see
Through eyes that feel detached
All out of hope to be
Patina coated black

What may exist without being known
It makes the fear creep in and spread slow
For what is here now in plain sight
Focus remaining life on borrowed time

Bones that ache make me bend my knee
Best to not kneel there anymore
There’s quiet in the space between
There’s no more fighting with a broken sword

Now you can see
Maybe enough to breathe

The Fear (lyrics in description)

Northern Stories

Let Nature Take This House

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.

Three Way - Act III. Masquerade: Transition: Cheerful

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