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THE GIFT

Composer: David Evan Thomas

The music of David Evan Thomas has been praised for its eloquence, power and craft. A recipient of an Award in Music from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, two McKnight Foundation Fellowships (2013, 1992) and the Möller-A.G.O. Award in Choral Composition, Thomas has received commissions from the Minnesota Orchestra, the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, The Schubert Club, the American Composers Forum and the American Guild of Organists. He has been a resident artist at both Wyoming’s Ucross and Brush Creek Arts Foundations, and at California’s Villa Montalvo. Recent awards include a Martin Luther Hymn Prize, a Minnesota Sinfonia/McKnight Foundation New Works Award and the Renée B. Fisher Composer Award for 2017. Thomas’s mus… Go to person page >

Tune Information

Title: THE GIFT
Composer: David Evan Thomas (2005)
Meter: 10.10.10.10
Key: E♭ Major
Copyright: 2005 © Birnamwood Publications (ASCAP), a division of MorningStar Music Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved.

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