Brian Holmes has been featured in the Thorpe Music catalog with works such as the charming Carol of the Field Mice and the heart-aching Let Evening Come (on text by the late Jane Kenyon). A professor of physics at San Jose State, specializing in the physics of music, Holmes has long enjoyed mixing music and text. While composer-in-residence with the San Francisco Choral Artists, Holmes set four of e e cummmings' poems to mixed choir, a cappella.