Thomas Albert
- Category : 1948-births
- Type : ME
- Profile : 1/3 - Investigating / Martyr
- Definition : Single
- Incarnation Cross : RAX Eden 4
Biography
American composer and educator, whose music is stylistically postmodern, exhibiting influences of Ives, Copland, Crumb, minimalism and 20th-century American popular music.
His best-known composition is Thirteen Ways, commissioned by eighth blackbird. The piece was inspired by Wallace Stevens’ poem, "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird", from which the ensemble derived its name.
He is currently professor emeritus, Composition and Musical Theatre and the producing artistic director of the Shenandoah Summer Music Theatre.