"Forget the word 'eclectic', MUSICAL, HONEST and WELL WRITTEN would be a better description… Your piece sounded wonderful and was a pleasure to listen to. You wrote a wonderful little piece that can be played many places by many musicians including those who never played a note of jazz.."
-David Amram upon hearing Cool Fool
Pictures of the Pinelands (2010)
Song cycle for soprano & piano
Poetry of Mary Elizabeth Winn
Commissioned by Jennifer Winn
Premiere: Spring 2011
Shadows of the City
(2010)
Opera noir in one act
Libretto by Thomas Carlo Bo, Lou Rodgers, and Adam Samtur
Additional lyrics by Lou Rodgers
Commissioned by Golden Fleece LTD
Premiere: NYC, 14th St. YMCA. June 2010
Upcoming performance: NJCU, April 26th, 2011
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Sweet Blues Suite (2009)
Non-improvisational Jazz Suite for violin (or clarinet) and piano
1. Cool Fool
2. Sad as Blue
3. Turnaround
Premiere: NYC, Club Drom, January 2010
Incidental Music for Our Town (2008)
for violin, cello, clarinet, and piano
-Overture (for an American play)
-Act 3 music
Recorded: Gurari Studios, Spring 2008
3 Songs to Poems by Stephen Vincent Benet (2007)
for tenor and piano
1. Leaves of the Wild (excerpt from John Browns Body)
2. In a glass of water before retiring
3. For all Blasphemers
Premiere: NYC, Greenwich Music House, December 2007
Blue Rondo à la Turk (Dave Brubeck)
Arranged for string orchestra
Score and Parts available in Store
Villa Diodati (Mira J. Spektor)
Orchestration for violin, cello and piano
"Thomas Carlo Bo's elegant musical direction and sumptuous orchestrations for piano, violin, and cello help imbue the show with a thrilling musicality."
-Talkin' Broadway, September '08
Additional Orchestration for Verdi's I Masnadieri
Boston Bel Canto Opera - Verdi Gala '01
"There was even a world premiere—an incomplete baritone aria from "I Masnadieri" (orchestrated in perfect Verdi style by the evenings conductor,Thomas Carlo Bo)"
-Ellen Pfeifer, Boston Globe
Vociano
Arrangements for concerts and upcoming album.