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Writing & Conducting


Music for Voices


A Flower Is A Lovesome Thing
(Billy Strayhorn, arr. Gates Thomas)
John James, vocal;  Dan Willis, clarinet;  Urara Mogi, violin


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Listen Here
 
- live recording (excerpt)
​(Dave Frishberg)
LaJuan Carter, vocal


Butterfly In the Sky
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(Theme from
Reading Rainbow)
(Steve Horlick/Dennis Kleinman/Janet Weir)

Choral Chameleon rehearses Gates Thomas' arrangement of Butterfly In the Sky
Acme Studio, May 2015


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 ...As December Fades Away is the best track on the album... a funky, rhythm-and-bass-driven song with lyrics that look at the holidays from a decidedly personal (and decidedly moody) perspective.  It is a remarkable song that made me gasp and stop in my tracks as I heard it the first time...

— John Magruder, RARB

...As December Fades Away (Gates Thomas/Marco Cassone)
​M•PACT, from
The Carol Commission, available at iTunes
Arranged and produced by Gates Thomas

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