Written: 2013
Duration: 12'
Instrumentation: two female singers, large chamber ensemble (16 performers) and optional film (instrumentation: flute, oboe, B-flat clarinet, alto sax, tenor sax, bassoon, F horn, C trumpet, trombone, soprano (amplified), mezzo soprano (amplified), keyboard (one player, piano and synthesizer), electric guitar, percussion (drumset (snare drum, kick drum, 2 tom toms, floor tom, hi-hat, crash cymbal, ride cymbal), anvil, bell tree, Ching Chok, Flexitone, large tam tam, large wood block), two violins, viola, cello, bass (gentle amplification of bowed string instruments suggested)
Commissioned by the Albany Symphony for Dogs of Desire, David Alan Miller, conductor
 World Premiere: Dogs of Desire, Experimental Media & Performing Arts Center (EMPAC), Troy, NY, USA, May 31, 2013.
 Publisher: Bill Holab Music

The Whole Truth - A Chamber Opera in Seven Scenes

Music by Robert Paterson | Libretto by Mark Campbell