Virgil Thomson (November 25, 1896 – September 30, 1989) was an American composer and critic. He was instrumental in the development of the "American Sound"...

Lorentz independently while the music score was written by composer Virgil Thomson. The film was narrated by the American actor and baritone Thomas Hardie...

study painting in France. He designed the scenario for two operas by Virgil Thomson: Four Saints in Three Acts (1934) and The Mother of Us All (1947). In...

ISBN 2-235-01889-0. Virgil Thomson: Virgil Thomson (New York: Library of America & Penguin Random House, 2016), ISBN 978-1-59853-476-4, p. 135–136; Virgil Thomson and...

(hardcover) Paperback reprint 2006. ISBN 978-0-8108-5728-5. Thomson, Virgil. 2002. Virgil Thomson: A Reader: Selected Writings, 1924–1984, edited by Richard...

4 August 2003. Thomson, Virgil (1988). Selected letters of Virgil Thomson. New York: Summit Books. p. 54. Virgil Thomson Virgil Thomson. Library of America...

Charles Thomson, the secretary of the Congress of the Confederation. Thomson derived the phrase Novus ordo seclorum from a poem by the Roman poet Virgil. He...

Bob Dylan, Arthur C. Clarke, Patti Smith, Robert Mapplethorpe, and Virgil Thomson. The Chelsea received much commentary for the creative culture that...

segment of the musical piece "Acadian Songs and Dances", composed by Virgil Thomson (1896–1989); from the film "Louisiana Story" (1948) Squeeze Box: The...

about the band ever written." Sheffield won the ASCAP Foundation's Virgil Thomson Award for Outstanding Music Criticism for Dreaming the Beatles in 2017...

productions of groundbreaking works, directing her choir and working with Virgil Thomson and Gertrude Stein on Four Saints in Three Acts (1933), and serving...

books on the music of his colleague and mentor, the composer and critic Virgil Thomson. A classical music enthusiast since his youth, Tommasini attended both...

Academy Award for Best Writing, Motion Picture Story in 1948. In 1949, Virgil Thomson won the Pulitzer Prize for Music for his score to the film (which is...

Souhami, p. 192-194 Souhami, p. 195 Virgil Thomson, "A Portrait of Gertrude Stein", in An Autobiography of Virgil Thomson, p. 176-177 Tamara Ann Ramsay, Discursive...

as Mistress Ford in Verdi's Falstaff. Having heard the performance, Virgil Thomson engaged her in Four Saints in Three Acts, prior to embarking on her...

1931. The entire concert (which also included work by Copland and Virgil Thomson) was panned by New York critics. (Bowles's first-known composition was...

Venice International Film Festival. Both films have notable scores by Virgil Thomson that are still heard as concert suites, featuring an adaptation of the...

and And Be My Love (1934). Composer Virgil Thomson recruited him to direct Four Saints in Three Acts (1934), Thomson's collaboration with Gertrude Stein...

Harvey and Gertrude Lawrence, and the African-American cast of the Virgil Thomson–Gertrude Stein opera Four Saints in Three Acts (1934). In 1934, Miller...

Igor Markevitch, Julia Perry, Astor Piazzolla, Laurence Rosenthal, Virgil Thomson, and George Walker. Boulanger taught in the U.S. and England, working...

operetta performances of Gilbert and Sullivan works. Virgil Thomson (16 October 2014). Virgil Thomson: Music Chronicles 1940-1954 (LOA #258). Library of...

presents Sports as a multi-media concert experience. Composer-critic Virgil Thomson, one of Satie's foremost American champions of the 20th Century, began...

tradition of the song-writing art--sensitive, intimate, and evocative." Virgil Thomson said, "Howard Swanson is a composer whose work singers (and pianists...

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and politician Virgil Thomson (1896–1989), an American composer and music critic Virgil van Dijk (born 1991), a Dutch footballer Virgil Williams, American...

Four Saints in Three Acts is an opera composed in 1928 by Virgil Thomson, setting a libretto written in 1927 by Gertrude Stein. It contains about 20 saints...

Cambridge University Press, 1992, p. 13. ISBN 0-521-31483-6. Virgil Thomson. Virgil Thomson: A Reader: Selected Writings, 1924–1984, edited by Richard Kostelanetz...

Ormandy 1983 Katherine Dunham Elia Kazan Frank Sinatra James Stewart Virgil Thomson 1984 Lena Horne Danny Kaye Gian Carlo Menotti Arthur Miller Isaac Stern...

music from The River, a documentary film score by the concert composer Virgil Thomson, by featuring an adaptation of the hymn "How Firm a Foundation". Although...

exquisite corpse being played in a bar. In the 1940s, composers John Cage, Virgil Thomson, Henry Cowell, and Lou Harrison, composed a set of pieces using this...