Elegy
Sound Liberation
Format: Album
Year: 2025
Label: Composers Concordance Records/Naxos Distribution
Robert’s dark humor lyrics about a woman’s revenge on a cheating boyfriend, ‘The Cauldron’, was set to music by Gene Pritsker (Matrix Resurrections, Joe Zawinul) and combines elements of jazz, opera and spoken word into a contemporary classical music composition. It features the powerhouse soprano vocals of Adriana Valdés and a searing trumpet solo by Frank Hackl (Lew Soloff), accompanied by Gene Pritsker (guitar), Amanda Ruzza (bass--Jill Sobule) and David Cossin (drums--Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon), with Robert narrating midway through the song.