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AUGUSTA READ THOMAS COMPOSER AUGUSTA READ THOMAS Printed: August 2010 Photo Credits: Front Cover, Michael Lutch; Back Cover, G AUGUSTA READ THOMAS COMPOSER AUGUSTA READ THOMAS printed: August 2010 photo credits: front cover, Michael Lutch; back cover, G. Schirmer "Heart and soul in the breathtaking music of a miered nine commissioned works, but also COMPOSER READ THOMAS AUGUSTA thoughtful contemporary composer...reveals a founded, along with Cliff Colnot, and curated lively, probing mind allied to a beating heart." the MusicNOW series. — Donald Rosenberg, Gramophone Magazine In addition to Barenboim, Thomas's music has " Augusta Read Thomas’s impressive body of been championed by other leading conductors works embodies unbridled passion and fierce including Pierre Boulez, Esa-Pekka Salonen, poetry. Championed by such luminaries as Oliver Knussen, Seiji Ozawa, Mstislav Barenboim, Rostropovich, Boulez, and Knussen, Rostropovich, Leonard Slatkin, David she rose early to the top of her profession. Robertson, Christoph Eschenbach, Ludovic Later, as an influential teacher at Eastman, Morlot and Xian Zhang. As well, her music has Northwestern and Tanglewood, chairperson of been commissioned by leading ensembles and the American Music Center, and the Chicago organizations around the world including: Symphony’s longest-serving resident composer, Chanticleer — Love Songs; NDR (German she has become one of the most recognizable Radio) Orchestra — Chanting to Paradise; and widely loved figures in American Music." Cleveland Orchestra — Song in Sorrow; Chicago Symphony — Orbital Beacons, — American Academy and Institute of Arts and Aurora, In My Sky At Twilight, Ceremonial, Letters Carillon Sky, Words of the Sea, Trainwork, Tangle, and Astral Canticle; Pittsburgh The music of Augusta Read Thomas (b. 1964) Symphony — Prayer Bells; La Jolla Chamber is majestic, it is elegant, it is lyrical, it is "boldly Music Society — Bells Ring Summer; National considered music that celebrates the sound of Symphony — Cello Concerto, Galaxy Dances; the instruments and reaffirms the vitality of Radio France and the BBC Orchestra — Violin orchestral music" (Philadelphia Inquirer). Her Concerto; Dallas Symphony — Helios Choros deeply personal music is guided by her particu- I; London Symphony and Boston Symphony — lar sense of musical form, rhythm, timbre, and Helios Choros II; Orchestre de Paris — Helios harmony. But given this individuality, her music Choros III; BBC — Pulsar; Utah Symphony — is affected by history — in Thomas's words, Terpsichore's Dream; Los Angeles "Old music deserves new music and new music Philharmonic — Canticle Weaving; and ASCAP needs old music." For Thomas, this means Foundation — Cantos for Slava. From 2009 to cherishing her place within the musical tradition 2011, Thomas is the MUSICALIVE Composer- and giving credit to those who have forged the in-Residence with the New Haven Symphony. musical paths she follows and from which she MUSICALIVE is a national residency program of innovates. "You can hear the perfumes of my The League of American Orchestras and Meet metaphorical grandparents," Thomas states. the Composer. "There is a wonderful tradition that I adore, I understand, and care about, but I have my two From 1993-2001, Thomas was an assistant feet facing forward." Thomas's vision toward the professor, then associate professor of composi- future, her understanding of the present, and tion at the Eastman School of Music, and from her respect for the past is evident in her art. 2001 until 2006 she was the Wyatt Professor of Music at Northwestern University. Having Most striking in her music, though, is its exqui- resigned from her teaching position in order to site humanity and poetry of the soul. The notion fully devote herself to composition, starting in that music takes over where words cease is July 2006, she continues her involvement with hardly more true than in her musical voice. Northwestern University by serving actively on Born in Glen Cove, New York, Thomas was the the Dean's Music Advisory Board. In 2007- Mead Composer-in-Residence with the Chicago 2008, Thomas is a Visiting Scholar in the Symphony Orchestra from May 1997 through Department of Music in the Division of the June 2006, a residency that culminated in the Humanities at the University of Chicago. premiere of Astral Canticle — one of two final- Frequently, Thomas undertakes short-term resi- ists for the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in Music. During dencies in colleges, universities, and festivals her residency with the CSO, under the direction across the country and in Europe. of Daniel Barenboim, Thomas not only pre- 1 Thomas studied composition with Jacob Druckman at Yale University, with Alan Stout and Bill Karlins at Northwestern University, and at the Royal Academy of Music in London. She was a Junior Fellow in the Society of Fellows at Harvard University (1991-94) and a Bunting Fellow at Radcliffe College (1990-91), and often teaches composition at Tanglewood. Thomas has also been on the Board of Directors of the American Music Center since 2000, as well as on the boards and advisory boards of several chamber music groups. She served as Chair of the Board of the American Music Center from 2005 to 2008. In addition to the numerous commercial record- ings of her music available on major record labels, Thomas has released five of her own albums independently. Her music is published exclusively by G. Schirmer. 2 AUGUSTA READ THOMAS AUGUSTA COMPOSER Absolute Ocean . .6 magneticfireflies . .7 ALPHABETICAL INDEX OF WORKS READ THOMAS AUGUSTA Alleluia (Midsummer Blaze) . .10 Meditation — Trombone Concerto . .6 among dawn flowers . .11 Memory: Swells . .8 Angel Tears and Earth Prayers . .7 Moon Jig . .8 Aspen Starry Night Prayer Chords . .9 Murmurs in the Mist of Memory . .7 Astral Canticle . .6 Aurora — Piano Concerto . .6 Of Paradise and Light . .5 Orbital Beacons — Concerto for Orchestra . .5 Ballade, “Weaving Skyward” . .9 Bells . .7 Passion Prayers . .7 Bells Ring Summer . .9 Pilgrim Soul . .8 Bubble: Rainbow - (spirit level) . .11 Prairie Sketches I....diamonds on orchid velvet... .11 Canticle Weaving . .6 Prayer and Celebration . .5 Cantos for Slava . .7 Prayer Bells . .5 Caprice . .9 Psalm 91: Verse 11 . .10 Capricious Angels . .7 Pulsar (for viola) . .9 Carillon Sky . .7 Pulsar (for violin) . .9 Ceremonial . .5 Purple Syllables . .10 Chant for Alto Saxophone and Piano . .7 Chant for Cello and Piano . .8 Radiant Circles . .5 Chant for Viola and Piano . .8 The Rewaking . .10 Chanting to Paradise . .11 Ring Flourish Blaze . .7 ...a circle around the sun... (for piano trio) . .8 Ring Out Wild Bells, to the Wild Sky . .11 Credences of Summer . .5 Rise Chanting . .8 Ritual Incantations — Cello Concerto . .6 Dancing Galaxy . .6 Roses . .10 Dancing Helix Rituals . .8 The Rub of Love . .10 Daylight Divine . .11 Rumi Settings (for violin and viola) . .8 D(i)agon(als) For Solo Clarinet . .9 Rumi Settings (for violin and cello) . .8 Dream Catcher . .9 Rush . .9 Dream Threads . .5 Scat . .8 Eagle at Sunrise . .8 Scherzi Musicali . .8 Euterpe’s Caprice . .9 Shakin' (Homage to Elvis Presley and Igor Stravinsky) . .5 Fête . .7 Silent Moon . .8 Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour . .7 Silhouettes . .9 Four Basho Settings . .10 Silver Chants the Litanies . .6 Fruit of My Spirit . .10 Six Piano Etudes . .10 Fugitive Star . .8 Song in Sorrow . .11 Galaxy Dances . .5 Spirit Musings — Violin Concerto . .6 Gathering Paradise . .6 Spring Song . .9 Squeeze . .8 Helios Choros I . .5 Sun Songs . .11 Helios Choros II . .5 Sun Threads . .9 Helios Choros III . .5 Sunlight Echoes . .11 In My Sky at Twilight — Songs of Passion and Tangle . .5 Love . .7 Terpischore's Dream . .5 Incantation (for viola) . .9 To the Rain . .10 Incantation (for violin) . .9 Toft Serenade . .9 Invocations . .8 Traces . .10 Trainwork . .5 jeu d’esprit . .8 Two E. E. Cummings Songs . .10 Jubilee . .5 Juggler of Day . .10 Vigil — Cello Concerto . .6 Violin Concerto No. 3, Juggler in Paradise . .6 Lake Reflecting Stars with Moonrise . .8 Light the First Light of Evening . .7 Words of the Sea . .6 Love Songs . .10 Love Twitters . ..
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