CHARACTERS

…a sophisticated alphabet soup…

– Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

…epigrammatic and tasty…

– Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

ILLUMINATIONS

…absolutely stunning…. Albert’s music shone with imagination and pure, shiimmering beauty.

– The Washington Post

NIGHT MUSIC

From the delicate ambiance of the nocturnes to the warm depiction of dawn in “Aurora,” “Night Music” was tranporting and exquisite and was performed so.

– Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

THE DEVIL’S HANDYMAN

…its descriptive music was often hilarious, in the manner of P.D.Q. Bach, including musicians vying with each other for control of a piece in one movement. Here, finally, the balance between theater and music was achieved.

– Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

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Angels in America, Part 1: Millennium Approaches

Thomas Albert’s urgent, discordant, shimmering, contemporary score is like adding a necessary character.

– The Cincinnati Enquirer

THIRTEEN WAYS

Albert’s music mirrors the sentiments of the poems in touching and gently humorous terms…

– Gramophone

It’s remarkable music…. This music feels like dreaming…

– Bill McGlaughlin, Saint Paul Sunday

In music fanciful, glistening and spunky, Albert has fashioned evocative portraits that make use of myriad instruments and quotations.

– The Plain Dealer

Gorgeous…

– San Francisco Chronicle

Jaunty…

– Oakland Tribune

A MAZE (WITH GRACE)

…intriguing to the ear…

– The New York Times

…a hazy impressionistic pastorale at mesmerizing pace.

– Sequenza21