Vraiment plaisant et une super chouette ambiance.👍

Chouette ambiance et j'aime beaucoup le groove aussi. 😍

I enjoyed the mood and atmosphere here. Pleasant flow.

Written: 2005-06/2023-25
Duration: ca. 33'
for orchestra (3 (dbl Pic.), 3 (dbl Eng. Hn.), 3 (dbl Bass Cl.), 3 (dbl C-bsn.); 4,3,3,1; timp +3; hp; kybd; strings)
Written for JoAnn Falletta and Mostly Modern Orchestra in honor of Mostly Modern Festival’s fifth season
For more information: https://robertpaterson.com/journey-of-a-dragonfly
Video: https://youtu.be/hZOVmC9R82M

PROGRAM NOTE
As a child, my parents vacationed at a summer cottage in Maine by a small lake. Often by myself, I would sit on a giant boulder and watch the lake and the wildlife for hours.

One day, a beautiful bright-winged dragonfly flew across the lake and hovered before me. I was startled and intrigued: its long, slender blue body glistened in the sunlight. Finally, it began to fly around the perimeter of the lake. It stopped every few minutes and hovered in place, almost as if waiting for me to follow it. I followed the dragonfly until sunset, imagining a world in which only the dragonfly existed, on its own terms, within its own world.

Years later, I hiked around the Niagara Gorge near Niagara Falls and explored Devil’s Hole Park. There is an opening on the side of a cliff called Devil’s Hole Cave. Interestingly, early Native Americans called it the Cave of the Evil Spirit and foretold subsequent disaster to anyone who dared enter the cave. The combination of the lake, the dragonfly, and Devil’s Hole Cave all came together and helped crystalize the idea for this work.

Journey of a Dragonfly begins as the sun rises; a foreboding darkness looms in the background, contrasting the Dragonfly’s graceful entrance into a world filled with the excitement of being alive. A gust of wind carries dandelion seeds skyward alongside butterflies and rainbow-colored wildflowers. Butterflies land on flowers before the Dragonfly ventures through a dark forest and emerges, only to be chased by five blackbirds. Weaving back and forth to try and escape, the Dragonfly flies into a narrow crevice as two of the blackbirds collide with trees. While still being chased, the three remaining birds retreat as the Dragonfly discovers a dark hole leading to a tunnel. The dragonfly speeds down the ghoulish tunnel and emerges at the end of the tunnel at the side of a cliff, hovering in place. It looks around in horror and sees a gigantic cavern and then Devil Town. After flying through Devil Town and witnessing tortured souls, a bomb factory, Attorney Alley, and the Devil’s Saloon, off in the distance, the Dragonfly sees Satan’s House on a hill and decides to explore. The Dragonfly enters the house and sees the Devil Child, the Devil Mother, and the Devil himself. Suddenly, the Devil Child catches the Dragonfly in a glass jar as the parents prepare dinner in the kitchen. The Dragonfly eventually manages to escape, only to be chased by the Devil Child and then by a group of hellish bats. After a chaotic chase, the Dragonfly finds the tunnel and speeds back toward the world above. Finally free, the Dragonfly finds a flat rock to rest. The tale concludes as the Dragonfly falls asleep, the sun sets by the lake, and the evening fades to black.

Journey of a Dragonfly was written for JoAnn Falletta and Mostly Modern Orchestra in honor of Mostly Modern Festival’s fifth season.

– RP

Movements:
1. The Lake: Sunrise
2. Dragonfly’s Entrance
3. Chase: Blackbirds
4. Descent Into The Underworld
5. Devil Town
6. Satan’s House
7. Trapped
8. Kitchen
9. Escape
10. Chase: Bats
11. Ascent To The World Above
12. The Lake: Sunset

Journey of a Dragonfly for Orchestra

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SPEEDING/RUSH

*it’s just, different!?
👄💅🏽💌👩🏽‍❤️‍👨🏿
F*ck the drop, let’s get it 😠.
drop a body like kamikaze, fold her like origami🧘‍♀️. Everybody wants to be my hobby, I guess I got a bad lil mami. She a bad lil T’ing. Ten out of ten. She can go and bring her friends, they can hop in a Benz, we can do it all over it again like it’s trend. 
“Instagram”
*God damn😂
Got her without her pants, I love my fans,  she even loves me better like she blows off, mazeltov🥳. I guess it’s a party, going gnarly off my Harley. She just wants to ride me like a Harley Bike 🏍️. 
Sike, n!gga. You know you couldn’t get her back by the end of the night! 
Cause she loves, I guess it’s an addiction? 🤫😉
Everybody wants to be on my side, man I guess it’s a mission? Everybody wants to be on my side like a Glock nine. Man, it’s do or die. Everybody wants to read between the lines, it’s like you’re blind. 🧑🏽‍🦯👩🏾‍🦯👩‍🦯‍➡️👨🏾‍🦯‍➡️
But I know you can’t😞
I got her without her bedroom pants. And shes doing the bedroom dance, 🕺🏻🪩💃 
She loves me, 
SO I guess I’M K.I.N.G to your mf QUEEN. 🤴🏾💕👸🏽👸🏽everybody wants to be me, but your not. Everybody wants to be me, 
until…….
you get caught. ⛓️⛓️🚔👮‍♀️😞👮‍♀️
SLIP KNOT 🪢 ⚰️💀🎸 🤘 
It’ll put your head in a FUCKING CHOKE HOLD. Everybody wants to be me like me until you’re dead with no soul. I have so much soul. So I guess it’s made out of gold. Everybody wants to take down a king, you’re just not me. You’re just not me. 

I guess I could do it. 😉 
Especially after dark, I can make that shit spark💥🔫 🔥⚡️. It’s like it’s clapping. 
👏🏾 Round of applause, I got her without her 
bra,
I got her without her thong🤰🏽. 
She knows every song, she loves my quotes, no joke, I’m down her throat. 🫦 🍆 You know I could do this all day, you know I don’t play, I know I can’t go two ways so I can’t go home. Bad to the bone, 🍖 n!gga I believe in being myself. So I guess I’m all alone, I love masturbatin’,procrastination is never waiting. Everybody acts like I could really break? But I know I couldn’t, god sake. He’s on my side ALPHA ALMIGHTY your lord and your savior, I could not save her.So I had to let her go. She knows I’m bad to the bone, I have to go get another hoe, knock um all down like dominos.🎳👌🏾🍆 🛌 if you know, you know. I’ve never been a clone. So you niggas can’t even read my quotes. No joke, I don’t even want to post those. 👈🏽 Everybody wants to act like they could be by my side, 
but I know I couldn’t even do it unless she, be my side. In between my thighs. Man, love her after she looks me in the eyes🥺. After she sucks my d*ck.
I’ve never been a prick, but I still raised myself. I guess I’m a bastard. 🤷🏾‍♂️ I guess I’m number one. 🏆 🥇. Even though I’m the 💩 #2.Everybody wants to act like I’m not a god given gift, 🎁 but I know god gave me to you so I can preach to the youth. 
(For generations)
Everybody wants to act like I won’t knock out your tooth. 
🦷 👊 uh, 🙄 target 🎯 practice.
I swear to god I love my actress 🎯😍🫵🏽, she loves it when she’s on my mattress, got her flipping over doing yoga. I feel like Yoda. The way I use the force, no Porsche, but I still push to start. Everybody acts like they could really kill me after dark. Everybody acts like they can really make that shit start, everybody acts like their 
“tony stark?”🤑 
I can tear out your heart 
❤️‍🩹😭💒. 
Yea! If I get it then she gets it, god damn it I’m gifted. Going up, reminiscing thinking about my past. And I still want it to last, so I guess I’m into bad, directions, bad habits, I feel like a rabbit, the way I eat these snow bunnies
 👩‍🦳🍑 🐰.
 (You are what you eat).
Everybody wants to act like they know me but I know you’re so funny, I know, you’re so cunning(:
The way you like to talk and act like you could actually top me off. 🙄🤦🏾…..

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