I like the quieter moments of this piece with the hand drums.

yessir this ones heat 🔥 keep up the fire work

These percussive Sounds fit excellent👍

Andrew wrote this wonderful song and asked me to do some guitar on it. Very fun stuff. I'm honored!

Check him out: https://soundcloud.com/andrew-smith

Going Home- By Andrew LB Smith with R Grigg on guitar

Circles around me

Thursday
for Soprano and Piano
Duration: 12’
Text by Kenny Berkowitz and Bridget Meeds
Performers: American Modern Ensemble; Nancy Allen Lundy, Soprano, Blair McMillen, piano
Publisher: Bill Holab Music: http://www.billholabmusic.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=103_137&products_id=889
Online Perusal Score: https://issuu.com/robertpaterson/docs/thursday.fs.all.bound
For More Information: https://robertpaterson.com/thursday

PROGRAM NOTES
The text for Thursday was conceived and written by two close friends, Bridget Meeds and Kenny Berkowitz, both excellent writers who possess an acute and often exquisitely wry sense of humor. Each movement attempts to paint a literary picture of the central character by introducing various people who are related to her. The work has six short movements, each one representing a different character.

Winter Songs

Thursday - 4. 5:09 pm

Wind Quintet
Duration: 18'
Commissioned by Quintet of the Americas; Underwritten by the American Composers Forum with funds provided by the Jerome Foundation
Publisher: Bill Holab Music: http://www.billholabmusic.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=103_137&products_id=909

PROGRAM NOTES
All of the movements of this wind quintet are connected and inspired in some way by American icons, surrealism, collage, post-1950s imagery and suburbia.

The first movement, Andante, begins with the ending and ends at the beginning. Some instruments mimic others and just when you think an idea might go in one direction, it goes in another. I gleaned many of my ideas from studying cinematic character development and the unusual forms used in many modern films such as the 1994 film Pulp Fiction by Quentin Tarantino.

The second movement, Suburban waltz-fantasy, contains quotes from 1960s-70s TV show themes: The Jetsons, All in the Family, Green Acres, The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Brady Bunch and Leave It To Beaver. The movement begins with a waltz-like feel and two of the players mimicking “suburban chicken lady housewives cackle-gossiping across a backyard fence.” An obnoxious stray dog interjects with loud barking and then the movement takes off in a different direction. Some of the quotes are re-composed to sound like bird songs, others are textural and a few are so subtle that they are not easy to discern. Some of the parts even sound like they are mocking each other. This movement is a strange, surrealist collage.

The most immediate and obvious reference in the title of the third movement, Melting Clocks, is to Salvador Dali’s famous 1931 painting The Persistence of Memory in which there are images of melting or limp watches. I imagine a room full of clocks all ticking away, yet slightly inaccurately, the “baby clocks” a little faster than the “old grandfather clocks.” The middle section contains a few brief quotes form the first movement, and the “slightly melted” end of the movement brings back the cuckoo, but this time it melts as if it is in a house consumed by fire.

The fourth movement, Klezmeshugeh, derives its title from my combining the words ‘klezmer’—which is a combination of the two Hebrew words, kley and zemer, meaning ‘instrument of song’—and meshugeh, which is a Yiddish word meaning ‘crazy’. Essentially, this made-up title means “crazy instrument song.” In this movement, there are a few “wrong notes” that allude to the players pretending to sight-read. The end also concludes with a few thematic fragments from the second movement.

Wind Quintet was commissioned by Quintet of the Americas and underwritten by the American Composers Forum with funds provided by the Jerome Foundation.

Wind Quintet - I. Andante

Wind Quintet
Duration: 18'
Commissioned by Quintet of the Americas; Underwritten by the American Composers Forum with funds provided by the Jerome Foundation
Publisher: Bill Holab Music: www.billholabmusic.com/store/index.p…oducts_id=909

PROGRAM NOTES
All of the movements of this wind quintet are connected and inspired in some way by American icons, surrealism, collage, post-1950s imagery and suburbia.

The first movement, Andante, begins with the ending and ends at the beginning. Some instruments mimic others and just when you think an idea might go in one direction, it goes in another. I gleaned many of my ideas from studying cinematic character development and the unusual forms used in many modern films such as the 1994 film Pulp Fiction by Quentin Tarantino.

The second movement, Suburban waltz-fantasy, contains quotes from 1960s-70s TV show themes: The Jetsons, All in the Family, Green Acres, The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Brady Bunch and Leave It To Beaver. The movement begins with a waltz-like feel and two of the players mimicking “suburban chicken lady housewives cackle-gossiping across a backyard fence.” An obnoxious stray dog interjects with loud barking and then the movement takes off in a different direction. Some of the quotes are re-composed to sound like bird songs, others are textural and a few are so subtle that they are not easy to discern. Some of the parts even sound like they are mocking each other. This movement is a strange, surrealist collage.

The most immediate and obvious reference in the title of the third movement, Melting Clocks, is to Salvador Dali’s famous 1931 painting The Persistence of Memory in which there are images of melting or limp watches. I imagine a room full of clocks all ticking away, yet slightly inaccurately, the “baby clocks” a little faster than the “old grandfather clocks.” The middle section contains a few brief quotes form the first movement, and the “slightly melted” end of the movement brings back the cuckoo, but this time it melts as if it is in a house consumed by fire.

The fourth movement, Klezmeshugeh, derives its title from my combining the words ‘klezmer’—which is a combination of the two Hebrew words, kley and zemer, meaning ‘instrument of song’—and meshugeh, which is a Yiddish word meaning ‘crazy’. Essentially, this made-up title means “crazy instrument song.” In this movement, there are a few “wrong notes” that allude to the players pretending to sight-read. The end also concludes with a few thematic fragments from the second movement.

Wind Quintet was commissioned by Quintet of the Americas and underwritten by the American Composers Forum with funds provided by the Jerome Foundation.

Wind Quintet - III. Melting Clocks

So I'm a big fan of The Mandalorian and I really loved Ming-Na Wen's character 'Fennec Shand', but I noticed that she didn't have her own theme song...so I made one! I took some elements of the official Mandalorian main theme and composed this theme song as a tribute to Fennec's character and the awesome actress Ming-Na Wen as well. Hope you like it!

Fennec Shand Unofficial Theme Song | "Desert Assassin"

Don't blink. You don't wanna miss this. Echoes. . . They tell what you wanna hear. Consume one side. Scroll on by. Satisfied. Take the bait and just keep taking. 

Deify, divide... we're severing and we swallow the poison and lies. 

High praise. Now wouldn't you agree. Remain on the machine. Consume one side. Just troll on by. Satisfied. Mainline the meme and replicate it. 

Oversimplify

Deify, divide... we're suffering and we swallow the poison. Pick sides. Collide then die. 

Oversimplify

Come get used

Slide off the bell curve get lost in all the reverb. Inside the fence now, you're unconvinced somehow. Cling to the spiritual. Reject the critical now. Receive the program. Fall in line with the plan. 

Deify, divide... manipulate and we swallow the poison then die.
Oversimplified

We Swallow the Poison

The whole live
Your destination is not to die
The whole live
Your destination is simple to live

But never walk alone
This isn’t the way
But never walk alone
You’ll find it

The whole live
Your destination is not to walk alone
The whole live
Your destination is to keep your friends 

But never walk alone
This isn’t the way
But never walk alone
You’ll find it

You will never walk alone never

The whole live
Your destination is not to give up
The whole live
Your destination is to fight 

But never walk alone
This isn’t the way
But never walk alone
You’ll find it

The whole live
Your destination is not to do things you hate
The whole live
Your destination is to do things you love

But never walk alone
This isn’t the way
But never walk alone
You’ll find it

You will never walk alone never

Destination

Shadows

Lyrics:

Who knows where I might have been
Choices made at seventeen
Living in another dream maybe

Lost roads never taken by me
Leading to futures I didn’t see
And who knows who I might have been
Had I acted different in prior scenes?

Would I be a stranger?
If I could somehow get to meet her?
Or would it be like looking in a mirror,
Standing face to face with each other?

Who knows who I might have been
Choices made at seventeen
Living in another dream maybe

I don’t know if I wanna be 
Some other me
Yet I would really like to see
Who I could have been

Would I be a stranger?
If I could somehow get to meet her?
Or would it be like looking in a mirror,
Standing face to face with each other?

Who knows what I might have been
Choices made at seventeen
Living in another dream maybe

Might Have Been

The last part is inspired by Claudie Debussy - Clair de lune (Moonlight)

Circles around me

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