by David Evan Thomas | Mar 14, 2026 | Concerts, My Blog, Poets |
As spring inches toward us, deep In my earthworm heart I’m thinking about music and the rain. More specifically, I’m thinking about Music and the Rain, my song cycle of poems by Michael Dennis Browne for baritone and piano, which will be featured in a Schubert Club...
by David Evan Thomas | May 6, 2018 | Composers, Concerts, My Blog, Performers |
In two recent and marvelous Schubert Club International Artist Series recitals with harpsichordist Richard Egarr, cellist Steven Isserlis played Bach’s 5th Cello Suite, BWV 1011. That work includes a singular sarabande, shown here in in Anna Magdalena Bach’s...
by David Evan Thomas | Oct 29, 2017 | Concerts, My Blog, Psychology, Singers |
Jeremy Huw Williams and Paula Fan Present Clare Cycle October 30, 2017 6 PM Ultan Recital Hall, University of Minnesota Acclaimed Welsh baritone Jeremy Huw Williams (Welsh National Opera) and pianist Paula Fan (University of Arizona) will present a recital of...
by David Evan Thomas | Dec 5, 2016 | Concerts, movies, My Blog, Performers |
When Augustin Hadelich and Joyce Yang played Manuel Ponce’s “Estrellita” as an encore at a Schubert Club International Artist Series recital in Saint Paul last week, I remembered that the song had also graced Renée Fleming’s IAS recital in October. In that program...
by David Evan Thomas | Aug 30, 2016 | Composers, Concerts, Musicians, My Blog, Public figures |
August, 2016 As a kid, I enjoyed the syndicated column of Sidney J. Harris (1917-1986), which appeared on the same page with Ann Landers and Erma Bombeck. Like those writers, Harris helped you navigate the real world with insight and humor. One of his regular features...
by David Evan Thomas | May 13, 2016 | Composers, Concerts, Friends of DET, My Blog |
Now! Hear the songs! I know not what are the words But they sing in my soul of the things our Fathers loved. A number of the American modernists developed their art under the aegis of another profession. Poet William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) was a physician....
by David Evan Thomas | Apr 17, 2016 | Concerts, Musicians, Performers, Public figures, Singers |
This coming Wednesday, April 20, 2016, The Schubert Club will welcome the Welsh bass-baritone Bryn Terfel back to Saint Paul. There is no better ambassador for Welsh song—for song, period—than Terfel. That’s “Terrrvel.” (For pronunciation help from actual humans, I go...
by David Evan Thomas | Mar 25, 2016 | Composers, Concerts |
At a recent Schubert Club concert… Barry Kempton and I agreed about the Howells Clarinet Sonata: as a piece it is not quite satisfactory. Barry mentioned a recent conversation with pianist Michael McHale in which McHale compared editors of music and the word. Writers...
by David Evan Thomas | Mar 19, 2016 | Composers, Concerts, Friends of DET, My Blog |
Clarinetist Michael Collins and pianist Michael McHale will give the second of two recitals at the Ordway Concert Hall in Saint Paul tonight. It’s the first clarinet recital on the Schubert Club International Artist Series, and it’s a doozy: four sonatas and two...
