Dirty Music, concerto for amplified violin and burlesque band

Blood of Angels

Blood of Angels dramatizes the political life of George C. Wallace during the Civil Rights Movement. In order to be elected Alabama’s governor, Wallace abandons his belief in equality and embraces segregation with disastrous effects, including the the bombing deaths of four girls in Birmingham’s 16th Street Baptist Church. Cloaking his racist

Blood of Angels dramatizes the political life of George C. Wallace during the Civil Rights Movement. In order to be elected Alabama’s governor, Wallace abandons his belief in equality and embraces segregation with disastrous effects, including the the bombing deaths of four girls in Birmingham’s 16th Street Baptist Church. Cloaking his racist rhetoric as a call for law and order, Wallace seeks the presidency, only to be gunned down by a would-be assassin. Crippled, in chronic pain, Wallace returns to the African-American community and begs their forgiveness. They grants that forgiveness in the spirit of unity and redemption.

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Art Songs

Cabaret Songs

Race for the Sky is a cycle of songs for soprano, violin, and piano by Richard Pearson Thomas. It was inspired by poems collected in New York City from makeshift shrines and memorials left following the attacks of September 11th, 2001. Commissioned by Lisa Radakovich Holsberg, Race for the Sky was premiered at the New York Historical Society on September 11, 2002 and has received numerous performances nationwide, including in an orchestral version with the Westchester Philharmonic Orchestra.

Race for the Sky: Voices of 9/11