
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
incidental music for
Angels in America, Part 1: Millennium Approaches
ANGELS IN AMERICA, PART 2: PERESTROIKA
Thomas Albert’s urgent, discordant, shimmering, contemporary score is like adding a necessary character.
– The Cincinnati Enquirer
The original score... adds to the effect with hints of Coplandesque Americana cracked by dissonance and layered melted into something striking but not obvious.
– coumbusunderground.com
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