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Congratulations Duncanville HS!
Congratulations to the Duncanville High School Wind Ensemble, Tom Shine, director on winning their third Texas Music Educators Association AAAAA Honor Band. One of their winning selections was Pat's Symphonic Suite from Guiseppe Verdi's "Requiem."
 
Debussy Transcription performed at 2008 Midwest Clinic

Pat's transcription of Claude Debussy's "Fetes" from "Nocturnes" will be performed at the 2008 Midwest International Band & Orchestra Clinic by the Spring High School Symphonic Band, Gabe Musella, director.

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"The Engulfed Cathedral" featured on new Air Force Band CD
Pat's transcription of Debussy's "The Englulfed Cathedral" is featured on the latest CD by The United States Air Force Band, Col. Dennis M. Layendecker, commander and music director. The CD also contains works by Schoenberg, Camphouse, and Ticheli.
 
Current Projects

Charles Ives' A Concord Symphony and Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition

Pat has received permission from G. Schirmer to write a wind transcription of Charles Ives' monumenatal Piano Sonata No. 2, Concord, Mass., 1840-1860.  Consider by many (including Pat) to be the single greatest piece of American music, Pat's transcription, which in effect will transform the work into a Concord Symphony for band, will be premiered in Austin, Texas in October 2010 by The University of Texas Wind Ensemble conducted by Jerry Junkin. 

Pat is also working on his own transcription of Pictures at an Exhibition. Mussorgsky's magnificent piano work virtually cries out for a larger canvas. Maurice Ravel, Leopold Stokowski, Sergei Gortchakov, Leo Funtek, Lawrence Leonard, and Vladimer Ashkenazy have all scored the work for orchestra, and there have been other arrangements for brass ensemble, pipe organ, as well as several for wind band. Commisioned by The University of Houston Symphonic Winds, David Bertman, conductor, Pat's transcription will be an original setting of the original piano work and will not be based any previous orchestral or wind band arrangement.

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Four of Pat's Transcriptions added to Texas UIL PML
Four of Pat's transcriptions - Berlioz's Roman Carnival Overture, Mendelssohn's Overture for Wind Band, Op. 24, Respighi's Feste Romane, and Strauss' Don Juan - have been added to the Texas UIL Prescribed Music List for the school years beginning with 2007-2010.  These works join other Patterson transcriptions from previous years on the new list - Copland's Down A Country Lane, Bach's Sleepers, Awake, Elgar's Enigma Variations, Holst's The Planets, Torke's Javelin, Copland's Appalacian Spring, and Debussy's The Engulfed Cathedral.