by David Evan Thomas | Mar 20, 2019 | Composers, Friends of DET, My Blog |
One month ago, on February 20, 2019, we lost master composer Dominick Argento. The affection I felt for the man and the respect I had for his art can’t be neatly summarized, but here is an appreciation adapted from words at a concert of his music at Hill House in...
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 | May 8, 2016 | Friends of DET, My Blog, Psychology |
Recently I attended a memorial service, a beautiful service for a man I didn’t know. That was my loss. He was dear to all present, had died suddenly and too young, and I wish I had known him. I knew his widow but a little; we had sung together in a choir. On this day,...
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...
by David Evan Thomas | Feb 12, 2016 | Friends of DET, My Blog, Profiles |
As I was hauling groceries to my car, I passed a small, over-bent woman pushing a vertical cart—inches at a time—away from the store into the vastness of the lot. She hesitated, poised as if ready to dive from a great height. I turned back, asking if she needed help....
