Another beautiful piece Robert!!  Great job as usual!!

He's Back!

Hourglass (ft. Bella Michel)

Take on this relentless pride. Child-like, they arrogantly call me devil. 
Though I admit, I'd be remiss if I didn't take the chance to oppose that fist, the iron. The ring to it... defy. Deny. How much is accurate?

Not one single part
I'll doubt and criticize now go ahead and call me the devil. 

The pious, the righteous, and divine.... imagine... imagine their surprise when confronted by reality, when they have to make the choice.
To remain honest- to retain integrity, or to throw away our progress and lose sincerity. To keep up all the pretense to hold on to belief in unreliable impossible nonsense, to stay down on their knees. Get real.

Appealing to emotion. Imagined consequence. Don't try to verify at all. How much makes sense?

Not one single part. 
I'll doubt and I'll criticize. It deserves no less. 
I don't believe you. Now go ahead and call me the devil.

Not One Single Part

Just something I wrote, nothing special 😪

In the Rain

Madness, Starving, Hysterical, Naked.

Yesterday

Composed for week 9 of Z-I-v Summer Contest 2021: You Won't See This in DDR VI

Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/0NR52Y5mwz6rPoKT25r0ZD?si=3cbeebb58c8b4052
Listen on Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/album/113-cookie-tin-single/1580310009

113% Cookie Tin

MCR x PARAMORE - Ghost of You / Decode Mashup and Cover. "Ghost Of Decode."

I got this idea from an old mashup by Soundcloud user DXS that I've been bumping for what feels like several years. Link: https://soundcloud.com/dxs-beats/mcr-x-paramore-ghost-of-decode

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MCR X PARAMORE - Ghost of Decode Mashup/Cover

Four Walden Canons - for mixed voices. Duration: 5'. Text by Henry David Thoreau. Publisher: Bill Holab Music: www.billholabmusic.com/store/index.p…ducts_id=1408

World Premiere: JMU Treble Choir, Bryce Hayes, Director, James Madison University, October 10, 2013.

PROGRAM NOTE

During the summer of 1998 I taught at The Walden School for young composers in Dublin, New Hampshire. One of the traditions at this school is the singing of canons, particularly before meals. These simple canons are intended to be used for this tradition.

Although the name of this school has no relation to Walden Pond (where Thoreau wrote Walden), The Walden School has been located at the beautiful campus of the Dublin School, a location where I think some of Thoreau’s writings could equally apply.

The text is adapted from quotes from Walden by Henry David Thoreau.

From the last line of the conclusion:
I. "The sun is but a morning star."

From p. 350, Where I Lived, and What I lived For:
II. "Let us spend one day as deliberately as nature…"

From p. 341, Where I Lived, and What I lived For:
III. "What should we think of the shepherd's life if his flocks
always wandered to higher pastures than his thoughts?"

From p. 341, Sounds:
IV. "I rejoice that there are hooting owls."

Four Walden Canons - IV. Hooting Owls

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: Watching, Apart

“This I want to believe implicitly: Man was born for love and revolution.”
― Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun

Deja Coup

Strange Benediction

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: Watching, Apart

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