Music of David Evan Thomas on Spotify I‘ve created a Spotify playlist as a convenient way to hear my commercially recorded music. It gives a pretty fair overview of my work, approaching from afar with the newest release, From the Land of Song, on the album,...
For Liz Pauly Today’s the fourth of July Another June has gone by And when they light up our town I just think what a waste of gunpowder and sky. (Aimee Mann, “4th of July”) Some years ago, I sang in a Martin Luther King, Jr. Day celebration at the...
Reading the Bach chorales If you’ve ever wondered how there can be 1126 works in Wolfgang Schmieder’s Bach Werke Verzeichnis, it’s because the first 224 are cantatas and Nos. 250–438 are chorale harmonizations. The chorales are little worlds unto themselves,...
“Our engraver had a strong opinion against word extensions.” Each musical family has its own technical language. A slur is a universal and effective symbol, but slurs mean different things to different families. To a string player, a slur means “play all the notes on...
