PAST NEWS ITEMS
2007
In February 2008, I'll premiere a new work by Laurence Crane. I'm very excited about this new piece, called Some Rock Music for Alan Thomas, which is scored for electric guitar and iPod and which the composer assures me will include at least one chord, possibly even more!
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The outstanding Cavatina Duo (Denis Azabagic and Eugenia Moliner) has commissioned Alan to write a piece for flute and guitar to be part of their "Music from the Balkans" project (for which they have also commissioned works by Clarice Assad and Carlos Rafael Rivera. They will play the pieces on tour as well as recording them for release on Cedille Records in Summer 2009.
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Alan has been commissioned to write a new song for soprano Juliet Fraser's "Sing Softly" concert programme, built around the songs of Dowland. Sorrow Stay (if Dowland were a bluesman), is a whimsical reflection on different types of musical melancholy.
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Alan's performance of Donald Bousted's "Solo for Elisabeth" features on a newly released double CD/DVD of Bousted's work titled The End of the Beginning.
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2006
Alan has been commissioned by the Midlands Fretted Orchestra to write a work to be premiered in 2007. With some twenty musicians playing guitars, banjos, mandolins, ukuleles et al, this promises to be a spectwangular delight. (Actually, that well could be the title...)
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