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Introducing Sheet Music by Augusta Read Thomas
Watch the video below to hear Augusta Read Thomas introduce her sheet music, compositional style, and latest work Star Box.
Augusta Read Thomas Sheet Music & Recordings
Across Star Box’s 6-minute and 30 second duration, the ensemble unfolds a labyrinth of musical interrelationships and connections that showcase the four musicians in a virtuosic display of rhythmic agility, counterpoint, skill, energy, dynamic and articulative range, precision, and teamwork. Throughout the kaleidoscopic journey, the work passes through various lively and colorful episodes, which propel the musical discourse always amid a sense of pirouettes, fulcrum points, and effervescence.
Available Format: Sheet Music
Includes Terpsichore's Box of Dreams, Star Box, Dance Mobile, Laetitia's Caprice, Carnival, Bebob Riddle II, and Con Moto.
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC/ALAC/WAV, Hi-Res FLAC/ALAC/WAV
About Augusta Read Thomas
“Music for me is an embrace of the world, a way to open myself to being alive in the world - in my body, sounds, and mind. I care deeply about musicality, imagination, craft, clarity, dimensionality, an elegant balance between material and form, and empathy with the performing musicians as well as everyone who works in the presenting organizations. Although highly notated, precise, carefully structured, soundly proportioned, and while musicians are elegantly working from a nuanced, specific text, I like my music to have the feeling that it is organically being self-propelled - with agility and spirit - on the spot. As if we listeners are overhearing a captured improvisation.” Augusta Read Thomas
Ellena Taylor - Sheet Music and Books Manager
