ALEX PAXTON
Composer. Improvising-trombonist.
Album: MUSIC for BOSCH PEOPLE
Discography
Educator
Calender
Art
Music for Concerts
Music for Operas (also music-theatre & vocal)
Music for Jazz & Improvisation
Music for Film & Theatre
Music for Children
Orchestrations & Arrangements
BUTCHERS and SONS (2013)
Director Simon Wade
excerpts from hilarious, LGBTQVeggie film
(Eat our shorts festival BFI, Beijing Film Festival, CineMAiubit International Film Festival, VGIK international festival in Moscow)
Sound track
Kieran Stickle McLeod
Samual Rapley
Jonny Chung
Ronnan Perret
Jemima Oosthuizen
Ben Brown
Scott Chapman
Sandy Suchodolski
GINGER & ROSA (2012)
Director Sally Potter
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On set in feature length film GINGER & ROSA as diegetic tuba player in socialist beret.
Ecerinis by Albertini Mussatidirector Douglas R Dunn.
conjunction with King’s College London University (KCL) and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts (RADA)
This music was written for a performance of Albertino Mussato's Latin verse play Ezzilino (c. 1315) which was based on the tyrannical reign of Ezzelino III da Romano (b.1194). It was performed in Latin inside KCL chapel.
The play opens with the tyrant Ezzilino and
his brother Alberico being told by their mother that they were each conceived through rape fathered by the devil.
Ezzilino swears allegiance to his satanic patriarch and renounces Christ. The two brothers assume a military empowerment and proceeds to rape, pillage, plunder, torture and conquer provinces of Italy.
At the apex of their reign of terror a priest engages Ezzilino in a
dialogue warning him that God in his mighty power will punish him for his atrocities. Ezzilino replies rhetorically pointing out that if God wants to he will smite him down at any point and then he kills the messenger to reinforce his potency. Eventually their luck runs out. Ezzilino is taken away and executed. Alberico watches as his children and wife are raped tortured and then burned to death before he is finally killed.
It is thought that it was originally written to try and console the peasants by explaining why God would allow such barbaric patrician to abuse his authority. It was acted out annually to commemorate his death.
The “priest” plays a live crumhorn.
By Virtue Fall
by Victoria Gimby
Songs and incidental music
Winner of 2014 LOST Theatre One Act Festival
By Virtue Fall examines the tenuous moral dilemmas faced when Matthew, a devout Catholic, confesses his desires. In the outskirts of Glasgow, Matthew, his wife Jenny and his inexperienced priest struggle to deal with the fallout of Matthew’s confession, forcing all three question where their own faith lies.
Conflicted in belief and thrown into uncertainty, By Virtue Fall leads us to re-evaluate our own moral compass directing to what is intrinsically right and wrong.
This piece premiered at The LOST Theatre in May 2014, followed by a run at The Space, London in April 2015.
Toulouse-Lautrec
Songs book performed by cast
premiered at the Lost Theatre, London.
Soggyarts productions.
(Chorus excerpt)
Turning like sunflowers,
Beneath the grind of the mill.
Yearning for sunflowers,
Grief enshrined upon the sill.
the dragon from BEL and the DRAGON
directed by Bill Banks-Jones Blow Thou Bitter Wind. (25 mins)
For Ensemble X.Y
EVERY DAY
Vocal Ensemble and Rhythm-section version.
VII. RAINY RAIN RAIN - 6 singers and piano
Assistant Composer for a production of
“M. Butterfly” (David Henry Hwang) preformed at Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts (RADA), London
Assistant to orchestrator Christopher Austin in Broadway Production of American in Paris premiered in Théâtre du Châtelet Paris and then on Broadway at the Palace Theatre in New York City (Multi award winning orchestrations: Tony, and Golden Globe).
A list of more operatic stage works can be found here...
Discography
Educator
Calender
Art
Music for Concerts
Music for Operas (also music-theatre & vocal)
Music for Jazz & Improvisation
Music for Film & Theatre
Music for Children
Orchestrations & Arrangements
BUTCHERS and SONS (2013)
Director Simon Wade
excerpts from hilarious, LGBTQVeggie film
(Eat our shorts festival BFI, Beijing Film Festival, CineMAiubit International Film Festival, VGIK international festival in Moscow)
Sound track
Kieran Stickle McLeod
Samual Rapley
Jonny Chung
Ronnan Perret
Jemima Oosthuizen
Ben Brown
Scott Chapman
Sandy Suchodolski
GINGER & ROSA (2012)
Director Sally Potter
On set in feature length film GINGER & ROSA as diegetic tuba player in socialist beret.
Ecerinis by Albertini Mussatidirector Douglas R Dunn.
conjunction with King’s College London University (KCL) and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts (RADA)
This music was written for a performance of Albertino Mussato's Latin verse play Ezzilino (c. 1315) which was based on the tyrannical reign of Ezzelino III da Romano (b.1194). It was performed in Latin inside KCL chapel.
The play opens with the tyrant Ezzilino and
his brother Alberico being told by their mother that they were each conceived through rape fathered by the devil.
Ezzilino swears allegiance to his satanic patriarch and renounces Christ. The two brothers assume a military empowerment and proceeds to rape, pillage, plunder, torture and conquer provinces of Italy.
At the apex of their reign of terror a priest engages Ezzilino in a
dialogue warning him that God in his mighty power will punish him for his atrocities. Ezzilino replies rhetorically pointing out that if God wants to he will smite him down at any point and then he kills the messenger to reinforce his potency. Eventually their luck runs out. Ezzilino is taken away and executed. Alberico watches as his children and wife are raped tortured and then burned to death before he is finally killed.
It is thought that it was originally written to try and console the peasants by explaining why God would allow such barbaric patrician to abuse his authority. It was acted out annually to commemorate his death.
The “priest” plays a live crumhorn.
By Virtue Fall
by Victoria Gimby
Songs and incidental music
Winner of 2014 LOST Theatre One Act Festival
By Virtue Fall examines the tenuous moral dilemmas faced when Matthew, a devout Catholic, confesses his desires. In the outskirts of Glasgow, Matthew, his wife Jenny and his inexperienced priest struggle to deal with the fallout of Matthew’s confession, forcing all three question where their own faith lies.
Conflicted in belief and thrown into uncertainty, By Virtue Fall leads us to re-evaluate our own moral compass directing to what is intrinsically right and wrong.
This piece premiered at The LOST Theatre in May 2014, followed by a run at The Space, London in April 2015.
Toulouse-Lautrec
Songs book performed by cast
premiered at the Lost Theatre, London.
Soggyarts productions.
(Chorus excerpt)
Turning like sunflowers,
Beneath the grind of the mill.
Yearning for sunflowers,
Grief enshrined upon the sill.
the dragon from BEL and the DRAGON
directed by Bill Banks-Jones Blow Thou Bitter Wind. (25 mins)
For Ensemble X.Y
EVERY DAY
Vocal Ensemble and Rhythm-section version.
VII. RAINY RAIN RAIN - 6 singers and piano
Assistant Composer for a production of
“M. Butterfly” (David Henry Hwang) preformed at Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts (RADA), London
Assistant to orchestrator Christopher Austin in Broadway Production of American in Paris premiered in Théâtre du Châtelet Paris and then on Broadway at the Palace Theatre in New York City (Multi award winning orchestrations: Tony, and Golden Globe).
A list of more operatic stage works can be found here...
WHALEING
multi media concert piece
British Instructional Films Ltd presents a Classroom Film.
recording coming soon
FISH BONE (2013)
Director Christian Cerami
Sound Track Song Book words and music ALEX PAXTON
Out in the Air
Holler in the Wind
Fish Bone Blues
David Ingamells- drums
Flo Moore - Bass
Rob Luft - Guitar
Ronan Perret - Bari. Sax
Richard Blake - Trumpet
Alex Paxton - Trombone
Jacob Collier - Vox
Cristina Rubio - Vox
THE PARK (2013)
Director James Neil/Parallax Media
Sound track
Joy Boole Clarinet
Joanne Leask Violin
Katarina Đorđević Violin
Anna Lusty Viola
Laura Hammonds Cello
Lloyd Coleman Piano
SHUT EYE (2013)
Director Dominik Hronek
Sound track
jack moran - Bass
ben swartz - cello
Pippa Ovenden - bass recorder
London Colours tv
David Zucchi - alto sax
Pippa Ovenden - recorder
Felix Jozsa, Elischa Kaminer, Liam Mattison - Clapping!
Alex Paxton - all other instruments
WINDMILL WOMAN
words & music Alex Paxton
premier Jack Lion's Theatre. London.
Blow, wind, blow, sing, she, wind, blow, sing, blow,
Turning, blow, gently she blows, wind, turning, blow, singing into flour, weeping
Gently she blows flour,
Softly weeping, sing
She blows upon the mulling wynd
She feels her thrusting sails unwind
The fields of straw threshing men
Their squaw of harvest time,
She knows the dulling musk affined
To till her worn and husking wheels
The miller, lusting hulls, assigned
His whore of corn and grind,
Her tears are staunched by a sudden north-westerly gale
The ears of wheat are graunched beneath her frail chest
Into flour,
Blow, wind, blow pretty flour, beautiful flour, blow, so much flour,
Softly she blows the strong wind to flour,
Her tears are staunched by a sudden north-westerly gale
The ears of wheat are graunched beneath her frail chest
She feels their pain!
She cowers on the hillock wynd
And must conceal an ageing sigh,
Born within a stormy mind
Our grand old sage of corn and wind.
copyright©alexpaxton
multi media concert piece
British Instructional Films Ltd presents a Classroom Film.
recording coming soon
FISH BONE (2013)
Director Christian Cerami
Sound Track Song Book words and music ALEX PAXTON
Out in the Air
Holler in the Wind
Fish Bone Blues
David Ingamells- drums
Flo Moore - Bass
Rob Luft - Guitar
Ronan Perret - Bari. Sax
Richard Blake - Trumpet
Alex Paxton - Trombone
Jacob Collier - Vox
Cristina Rubio - Vox
THE PARK (2013)
Director James Neil/Parallax Media
Sound track
Joy Boole Clarinet
Joanne Leask Violin
Katarina Đorđević Violin
Anna Lusty Viola
Laura Hammonds Cello
Lloyd Coleman Piano
SHUT EYE (2013)
Director Dominik Hronek
Sound track
jack moran - Bass
ben swartz - cello
Pippa Ovenden - bass recorder
London Colours tv
David Zucchi - alto sax
Pippa Ovenden - recorder
Felix Jozsa, Elischa Kaminer, Liam Mattison - Clapping!
Alex Paxton - all other instruments
WINDMILL WOMAN
words & music Alex Paxton
premier Jack Lion's Theatre. London.
Blow, wind, blow, sing, she, wind, blow, sing, blow,
Turning, blow, gently she blows, wind, turning, blow, singing into flour, weeping
Gently she blows flour,
Softly weeping, sing
She blows upon the mulling wynd
She feels her thrusting sails unwind
The fields of straw threshing men
Their squaw of harvest time,
She knows the dulling musk affined
To till her worn and husking wheels
The miller, lusting hulls, assigned
His whore of corn and grind,
Her tears are staunched by a sudden north-westerly gale
The ears of wheat are graunched beneath her frail chest
Into flour,
Blow, wind, blow pretty flour, beautiful flour, blow, so much flour,
Softly she blows the strong wind to flour,
Her tears are staunched by a sudden north-westerly gale
The ears of wheat are graunched beneath her frail chest
She feels their pain!
She cowers on the hillock wynd
And must conceal an ageing sigh,
Born within a stormy mind
Our grand old sage of corn and wind.
copyright©alexpaxton
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