Coronach

Spring Songs
Duration: ca. 20'
Instrumentation: tenor and piano
Performers: American Modern Ensemble - Alok Jumar, tenor; Geoffrey Burleson, piano
Recorded at Opera America's National Opera Center, Marc A. Scorca Hall, New York, NY, USA, June 4, 2019
Publisher: Bill Holab Music: http://billholabmusic.com/store/index.php?keyword=spring%20songs%20-&main_page=advanced_search_result&search_in_description=1
For More Information: https://robertpaterson.com/spring-songs-version-for-tenor-and-piano

I. English Sparrows (Washington Square) (Edna St. Vincent Millay)
II.  April 5, 1974 (Richard Wilbur)
III. Done With (Ann Stanford)
IV. The Widow’s Lament in Springtime (William Carlos Williams)
V. Spring Rain (Sara Teasdale)

PROGRAM NOTES
Spring Songs for tenor and chamber ensemble or piano is my third song cycle celebrating the seasons. As with the first two, Winter Songs for bass-baritone and Summer Songs for soprano, this cycle contains settings of poems by various American poets.

Whereas both Winter Songs and Summer Songs end with scenes in New York City, Spring Songs begins with New York: a setting of English Sparrows (Washington Square) by Edna St. Vincent Millay, a poem about a scene that takes place in the morning in Greenwich Village, a neighborhood in New York City where Millay lived in the early 1900s. The second movement is a setting of April 5, 1974 by Richard Wilbur, a poem Wilbur wrote in honor of Robert Frost’s one-hundredth birthday, and I interpret as being about overcoming self-doubt through wisdom, and about understanding the change of seasons, but also a change of mind. The third movement, Done With by Ann Stanford, I interpret to be about death and rebirth. Stanford symbolizes this by a house being torn down and the ground paved over, the now suffocated plant life yearning to break through. The Widow’s Lament in Springtime, the fourth movement, is a setting of a poem by William Carlos Williams. I interpret this poem as a modernist, pastoral elegy that uses images of nature to lament the death of a loved one. The final movement, a setting of the poem Spring Rain by Sara Teasdale, is about a happy memory of a lover brought about by an evening thunderstorm.

Spring Songs was commissioned by Rick Teller and Kathleen Rogers and was premiered at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall by the American Modern Ensemble, Alok Kumar, tenor, and Geoffrey Burleson, piano.

Spring Songs (Piano/vocal) - I. English Sparrows (Washington Square) (Edna St. Vincent Millay)

Created using IBIDO Cinematic and Ashlight - this soundscape is the feeling of seeing you arrive back home from a distant journey in the stars only to see desolation and an ashen burned world.

Video link here: https://youtu.be/ZZsPjYxifWs

Ashes On a Distant World

Miss Pendleton

A song for the weekend at the end of the world

LYRICS:

You got the last space
on the red-eye to the rat race
but they went and lost your suitcase now
Give me some headspace
and I'll keep it in my bad place
So you can wipe that look on your face out

The weekend's here
and they're calling time at the bar now
We're gonna salsa dance in the fallout
And there's another bomb on the way
Okay

You got a new name
so you can take the last one in vain
You know profanity's a new way out

The dog is too tame
to protect you from your own shame
They're gonna beat you at your own game now

The weekend's here
and they're calling time at the bar now
We're gonna salsa dance in the fallout
And there's another bomb on the way
Okay
Asleep all year in a Dali-painted aurora
Between the neon flora and fauna
You'll feel your sanity fading away
Saturday
The weekend's here
and they're calling time at the bar now
We're gonna salsa dance in the fallout
And there's another bomb on the way
Okay
Asleep all year in a Dali-painted aurora
Watching the city lights getting smaller
On a midnight plane from the bay
Saturday

Saturday

Сни Дощового Неба

Father Open Wide

I THROW MY HANDS UP 👐 
I NEED 😲 Y'ALLS HELP HONESTLY PRETTY PRETTY PLEASE 🙏 
● CAN YOU LISTEN TO THIS ONE
& 
● COMPARE TO THESE OTHER TWO : 

● 'DOUBLE SHOT CAN PRACTICE SESSION NUMBER 1

● 'DOUBLE SHOT CAN PRACTICE SESSION NUMBER 2'

UNDER MY TRACK LIST posted hmmmmm
LEMME SEE IF I CAN PUT LINKS ON HERE.....derp 🙃

LET ME KNOW WHAT Y'ALL THINK ABOUT 🤔 THEM
Y'ALLS SUPPORT AND CONSTRUCTIVE FEEDBACK/OPINIONS ARE HONESTLY HAVE GOTTEN ME THIS WAY 
THANK Y'ALL SOOOOO VERY MUCH 

I MISS Y'ALL 
I HAVE A LOTTA CATCHING UP TO DO ! 
AND MORE COLLABS ECCCKKKKKK
 HOLY MOLYYYY 
I AM SO BLESSED AND 🙌 RICH THANK Y'ALL 

MUCH LOVE AND PEACE ✌️ TO Y'ALL XOXOXOXO 💙

my thoughts & good vibes & prayers are with y'all 🤗

KRAE- 'BE PROUD TO BE YOU' (PROD. BY HEAR ME BEATS) PRACTICE (SERIOUSLY)# THREE😶🆘️🆘️🆘️

Had to go back to my old ways for a bit, basically it's all performed "live", but overdubbed in layers kinda thing, no drums so using the cajon, no midi so microphone pressed up to the keyboard speaker, all due to moving house and lack of internet. Fancy.

Anyway here's the lyrics.

Oh darling, let's be frank.
We've got some credit, with the bank.
We've got a few options, they don't have.
But when it's laid out on the table, we'll probably find we've been had. 

Oh honey, let's get real.
We're going nowhere, we can't feel.
We've kept our secrets, kept the deal.
But to make it any further we're gonna have to beg, borrow or steal. 

Oh, come on baby, let's be frank.
We'll take some credit out of the bank 

Oh darling, let us be frank.
The ghostly faces, in the cloudbank.
Are asking questions, are begging thanks.
What you saved up for tomorrow's gonna come back and hit you in the flank. 

Oh honey, please be true.
I see no other, for me but you.
I see no future, without you at home.
I'm speaking as frankly, as people do when they're left alone. 

Oh, come on honey let's be true,
cos nothing comes right out of the blue.

Frank

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