Aweigh in A Major
A composer's thoughts about music and musiciansMusic and the Rain
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...
Factitious Tones
Factitious: Not genuine, intrinsic, natural, or spontaneous; inauthentic. (Oxford English Dictionary) The melancholic wisps of Brahms’s Intermezzo in B-flat minor, Opus 117, No. 2 are pianistic in a way that Brahms is often not. It feels like harpsichord music,...
The 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 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,...
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“) Some years ago, I sang in a Martin Luther King, Jr. Day celebration at...
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