Scored for four percussionists playing bells from awide variety of cultures and historical periods,Sonorous Earth can be heard and imagined as aUnited-Nations-of-Resonances. John von Rhein, Chicago Tribune "AlthoughSonorous Earth draws some of its musical materialsand its movement titles from Resounding Earth (a 2012piece for solo percussion Thomas wrote for the ThirdCoast group), so greatly has she expanded the conceptand structure that it feels like an entirely new work.Here one encounters the tintinnabulations of theearlier piece in a different context. What once feltritualistic and intimate now is big, bold and public —a joyous affirmation of commonality across worldcultures. Debra Davy, Splash Magazines INVOCATIONcalled to mind the sound of zithers. It was a flourishliterally cosmic in scope and sound effects, withisolated bright shimmering shapes. At times thisdramatic movement seemed to stretch and then buildupon itself, dying away and leaving traces in the air.PRAYER found the members of Third Coast decisivelyselecting mallets and approaching the table of metalobjects with a reverent deliberateness; they literallygently stirred the sound. This piece was cerebral,mystical, deliberately otherworldly and intellectual.MANTRA ranged from delicate and intimate throughlively and picturesque. The movements of Third Coastfollowed suit, as they seemed to pose and dance, withthe Philharmonic providing a welter of complexcerebrally sensuous melody. REVERIE CARILLONwas played attacca, using all of the instrumentation ofThird Coast Percussion. In their own words, they”begin at the Burma Bells and work our way throughall the previous playing positions in a purposefulchoreography”. The movement is a triumphant andlyrically calibrated cacophony.
- ISMN: 9790708129158 (M708129158)
