Aweigh in A Major
A composer's thoughts about music and musiciansThe Hearing Eye, the Seeing Ear
From Canvas to Sound: Transformations Sonja Thompson and Clara Osowski featured As I watched an eagle rise over Montana’s Madison Buffalo Jump last month, I experienced the “widening gyre” described by Yeats: the bird tracIng a spiral on the updraft, shrinking even...
Listen to DET on Spotify
Music of David Evan Thomas on Spotify '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...
American Anthem
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") ome years ago, I sang in a Martin Luther King, Jr. Day...
Time to Dance
ugsburg Fortress has published my new collection: A Time to Dance: Settings for Organ, To play the organ is to dance. The definition of dance in the Oxford English Dictionary —“to leap, skip, hop, or glide with measured steps and...
A Blessing on the House
Reading the Bach chorales f 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...
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