Orchestral Compositions from 2022 and 2023

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A collection of Orchestral Romantic Classical Film Score oriented pieces.

Orchestral Classical

Lyrics

MacNeil 
 

No matter where you’re going 

No matter how you feel 

You’ve got no way of knowing 

Sex Magick is the deal 

 
 

And I’m feeling like Regan 

I’m feeling just like Regan MacNeil 

Doesn’t matter what you may do 

The devil in me seems so real 

 
 

And I’m feeling like Regan 

I’m feeling just like Regan MacNeil 

Doesn’t matter what you may do 

This orgiastic ritual will conceal 

 
Uhum... 

That’s how I feel 

 
 

Let’s make this orgy celebration 

In a Jack Parsons lookalike 

Do crucifix masturbation 

Is your head spinning or is it just the hype? 

 
 

The nymphs are wet and high 

Playing finger pie, 

Which is an old school slang of a sexual sty 

So don’t be shy, it’s thick enough to widen the sacred entrance and the unholy exit till you cry 

 

And I am... 

I am... 

I’m feeling 

Humm... 

 

I’m feeling like Regan 

I’m feeling just like Regan MacNeil 

Doesn’t matter what you may do 

The devil in me seems so real 

 

I’m feeling like Regan  

I’m feeling just like Regan MacNeil 

 

Humm... 

That’s how I feel 

That’s how I feel 

That’s how we feel 

 

I’m feeling like Regan  

Just like Reagan MacNeil 

 

Is that for really real? 

Is she really real? 

Regan... MacNeil 

 

Written by Saulo Oliveira S.

Prince of Rock

Macneil

Here's an old one recorded in 2005 and remastered today 02.05.23.
A simple Tango with plenty of little quirks.

Tango 4

Knocking On Heavens Door - Bob Dylan Tribute

it was supposed too be a smooth flight but we crash landed...

Crash Landed

Jon Arve - In The Air

Initially, somewhat inspired by a distant memory of the Kronos Quartet, but also a desire to explore counter point a bit further. It's fascinating how one feeling in an instant can lead to other unknown surprises in the next.

Diamond Strings

Adagio responding to international events suggests to me the question; 'Is catharsis a valid aim in music today'
This piece was mastered by John Cafarella

Adagio for Our Times (Remix VIII 3 December 2023)

Brand A

This is a variation of a sort on a musical fragment which appears in the theme music for the TV series 'All Creatures great and Small' and also in the first movement of my Tripartite Fantasy and is constructed as a free flowing set of improvisations on a simple basic idea This simple idea is treated in a linear polyphonic way resulting in a texture which moves between consonant and dissonant harmony ending on a C major chord.
This is an updated revision of the original track using different samples.
This version was mastered by John Cafarella

Dr M Sort Of A TV Theme (Revised 5 December 2023)

Letting the feeling flow watching internal sensations lead the process.

One Hearts Azimuth

Modelled on a movement of the Danish composer Carl Neilsen's  4th Symphony this short piece unfolds in a series of terse dramatic interludes.
My heartfelt thanks go out to John Cafarella for his sensitive mastering of this piece
.

Allegro Moderato (After Carl Nielsen) Remixed 15  December 2023

An extended and modified version of 'Allegro Presto Assai' now For Brass Choir and Orchestra originally uploaded to Soundcloud on December 6 2023 as a for Orchestra alone piece. 
Parts of this piece have been rewritten and I provide a new ending.
This upload has been mastered by John Cafarella.

Allgro Presto Assai

Allegro Presto Assai (Extended Version) 11 January 2024

A a short - slow - flamenco flavoured Ad lib - tuned down as a baritone - down to B.

Adamas Flamenco

Film Score Orchestral Romantic.
A journey from the Mountains of Tibet ... to ...

The Diamond

Film Score Orchestral Romantic
A theme from the past.
Written and titled before the video game ever existed.

The Age of Empire ( a theme from the past )

A brisk ballet piece based on an old theme written on guitar in the 1970s.

Safety's Beginning

And they say that on the night before the great crossing, Hannibal climbed the warm earthen moon-baked wall of his beloved’s home, sure-footed as a cat in the cool misty night. She waited for him on the balcony, her eyes bright with laughter, though her light dimmed when his hands found hers. They spoke not of armies, nor of the great beasts that would march beside him, but of almond blossoms drifting on the night air, and of how the stars seemed to lean closer to hear their words.

He told her he would return with tales so strange she might never know which were true, and perhaps a trinket or two from far-off lands. She teased him about the elephants — whether they loved figs as much as he — and he swore to bring her the answer. And when he slipped back into the dark, she could still hear the soft ring of his sword and smell the cedar oil in his hair, as if the night itself had promised to remember him.

Film Score Orchestral Romantic. A night meeting and farewell at the window. Hannibal crossing the alps.

Majesty of Charms

Everything Is Wrong

Everytime You Touch Me

Our story begins with Jorrit disembarking at Boston Harbor with the ambition to give up life on the sea.
He's a salty ol' dog and it might be a difficult transition but his mission is to make it to the west coast of the United States.
Jorrit has some wild adventures and drunken debauchery in Boston before eventually making his way west into Pennsylvania where he buys a used Conestoga wagon and a team of horses
and sails off into the sunset towards his new life.

Hailing from Vondelingenplaat Netherlands, Jorrit Brouwer, son of a brew master, is frightened of large four legged animals because as a child he was kicked by a drunken donkey.

Conestoga Schooner - The Drunken Sailor Song

This was a test to see how articulate Spectrasonics Trilian can be.

Pulsing 100

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General life - info / bio - - -
I began my musical education with listening as an infant and at the age of 7, in 1958, composed my first piece of music which was a brass quartet.

Early influences were guided by the musical taste of my Mother which was often Tchaikovsky and other romantic composers, with an occasional diversion to Big Band and pop music of the late 40's and early 50's.

The Boys Club Band, Grade School Choir and High School Band were a great education in basic orchestration and harmony and in the mid 60's, and self taught as a guitarist, I began live performance, which lasted until 1999.

Music and technology have always been my main interests and as those two elements continued to merge through the late 90's to the present, they have led me to the point where I now can successfully realize my earliest childhood dreams of musical expression in composing for full orchestra.

Special thanks to Mom for the great listening experience, brother Greg for the continued guidance in music from a formal perspective, and brother Lew for the technological expertise.