Virgil Thomson
Incidental music · Le Droit de Varech (manuscript, 1930) accordion solo · A Bride for the Unicorn (manuscript, 1934) male chorus, 3 perc. · Macbeth (manuscript, ...
Virgil Thomson – American Composer & Author {Official Site}
Virgil Thomson (1896-1989) was a many-faceted American composer of great originality and a music critic of singular brilliance.
Biography | About | Virgil Thomson – American Composer & Author
Virgil Thomson (1896-1989) was a many-faceted American composer of great originality and a music critic of singular brilliance. Utilizing a musical style ...
Virgil Thomson | Biography, Composer, The River, The Plow that ...
Virgil Thomson, American composer, conductor, and music critic whose forward-looking ideas stimulated new lines of thought among ...
Virgil Thomson - Song of America
Virgil Thomson was a real musician's musician. As a composer he created over 150 compositions that skillfully melded indigenous and cosmopolitan influences.
Virgil Thomson - The Kennedy Center
Virgil Thomson, an innovative American composer and respected music critic, was born on Nov. 25, 1896, in Kansas City, MO. Thomson started studying the piano at ...
Virgil Thomson - National Portrait Gallery
Alice Neel painted many of her colleagues in the world of arts and letters, particularly those in New York City, her home for many years. As she painted, Neel ...
Critical Condition: Revisiting Composer Virgil Thomson's Masterful ...
Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and celebrated critic Virgil Thomson, photographed in 1972. The Library of America has brought out a second volume of his ...
VIRGIL THOMSON INTERVIEW . . . . . - BRUCE DUFFIE
'Popular universality' means that everybody loves you. He may be referring to the fact that my music, melodically and harmonically is what is often called ' ...
Collection: The Virgil Thomson Papers | Archives at Yale
Scope and Contents. The Virgil Thomson Papers contain the manuscript scores and sketches of Thomson's musical compositions, including music for 3 operas, 7 ...
Virgil Thomson Residence at the Chelsea Hotel
overview. Virgil Thomson, an eminent composer and music critic of the 20th century, cumulatively lived in the Chelsea for over half of his life, staying there ...
Virgil Thomson - Library of America
Major works: The State of Music • The Musical Scene • Virgil Thomson • “The Music Reviewer and His Assignment”
The Happy Infamy of Virgil Thomson | The New Yorker
Thomson's wit, fire, and prescience outweigh his flaws; he was a formidable player in his historical moment, and his moment reverberates into our own.
Portrait of Virgil Thomson | The Art Institute of Chicago
Painting of an Indigenous woman native to Mexico bent and seated on a brown floor, Weaving, 1936. Diego Rivera ...
Perhaps best known for his collaborations with author Gertrude Stein, American composer and music critic Virgil Thomson was born in Kansas City.
Basic Repertoire List - Thomson - Classical Net
Virgil Thomson (November 25, 1896 - September 30, 1989), born in Kansas City and long resident in Paris and New York, is one of the few true modernists in ...
Virgil Thomson Songs, Albums, Reviews, Bio & M... - AllMusic
His writings, which are characterized by a brilliant and at times deeply provocative, but always highly opinionated whit, furnished material for three ...
Virgil Thomson Quotes - BrainyQuote
Virgil Thomson Quotes ... Let your mind alone, and see what happens. ... Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to ...
Virgil Thomson: Portraits - New World Records
He was inspired by the idea of depicting character through the use of music. In Thomson's words, "in all my portraits only the sitter's presence is portrayed, ...
Music Chronicles 1940–1954 - Library of America
Edited by Tim Page. “The composer Virgil Thomson was just about the most lively and astute music critic America produced in the 20th century.