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Biography and musical analysis from Classical Net's Basic Repertoire List includes links to related Category Arts Music Composition Composers T Thomson, VirgilVirgil Thomson. (1896 1989). For sheer pleasure, check out the Virgil ThomsonReader. Thomson's music is almost disconcertingly spare and direct.
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Extractions: Virgil Thomson Virgil Thomson, born in Kansas City and long resident in Paris and New York, is one of the few true modernists in America, since most of our moderns turn out Romantics in Disguise. Over and over, he demonstrates that nobody knows more about modern Europe, in pieces that taught Europe a lot about the U. S. and the U. S. a lot about Europe. He's an adept in two arts, for he also happens to be a major American prose writer, specializing in music criticism. For sheer pleasure, check out the Virgil Thomson Reader Thomson's music is almost disconcertingly spare and direct. In the consciously American pieces especially, there is a kind of aural equivalent to Cubist collage, as ragtime, waltzes, tangos, two-steps, fiddle tunes, and hymns get pasted into the texture. Unlike Charles Ives , there's an unsentimental distance and clarity to it all, like someone without illusions able to state exactly what's on his mind. Thomson gets this effect in his prose, too. Although overshadowed by Aaron Copland (who, by the way, always acknowledged his debts to Thomson), Thomson achieved far more in the realm of opera and vocal music, in which almost everyone acknowledges him a master. Try the powerful (and, to my ear, deeply American) 5 Songs from William Blake , the incredibly beautiful Feast of Love for baritone and chamber ensemble (a real lesson in how to vary orchestral texture and how to continue a musical line)
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Quotes from Virgil Thomson to inspire your creative thinking
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Virgil Thomson
Biographical text accompanying the Alice Neel painting of the composer at the Smithsonian Institution's Category Arts Music Composition Composers T Thomson, VirgilVirgil thomson virgil Thomson (18961989) Composer, critic ComposerVirgil Thomson began his musical training at age five, and by
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Extractions: Composer Virgil Thomson began his musical training at age five, and by his twelfth year he was performing professionally on both piano and organ. In the mid-1920s he settled in Paris, where he began to compose original works. There he also became part of a cosmopolitan group of avant-garde musicians, writers, and painters then dominating the cultural life of the city. A close friend was the expatriate American writer Gertrude Stein, who wrote the librettos for his operas Four Saints in Three Acts and The Mother of Us All , the latter based on the life of suffragist Susan B. Anthony. By the late 1930s, Thomson was writing music for movies, and in 1948 his score for the film Louisiana Story won a Pulitzer Prize. Thomson was also a major spokesman for the new directions of twentieth-century music as critic for the New York Herald-Tribune from 1940 to 1954. 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 sometimes exaggerated the effect that the body or expression of her sitter had on her own mind. After Thomson's sitting, she wrote, "When I painted the trousers I must confess I thought of elephants so that is the color they really are."
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Extractions: poka¿ powi±zane Thomson Virgil (1896-1989), amerykañski kompozytor i krytyk muzyczny. Od 1919 uczy³ siê m.in. u E. Burlingame Hilla w Uniwersytecie Harvarda, nastêpnie studiowa³ grê na organach i kontrapunkt u N. Boulanger w Pary¿u. 1940 zosta³ krytykiem muzycznym New York Herald Tribune . W latach 50. i 60. dzia³a³ jako dyrygent w USA i w Europie. Skomponowa³ 3 symfonie i inne utwory orkiestrowe, opery - m.in.: Four Saints in Three Acts The Mother of Us All (1947), muzykê kameraln±, wokaln±, teatraln± i filmow±. Autor licznych prac, np.: The State of Music The Art of Judging Music zobacz wszystkie serwisy do góry Encyklopedia zosta³a opracowana na podstawie Popularnej Encyklopedii Powszechnej Wydawnictwa Fogra
Virgil Thomson: The Plow That Broke The Plains/The River (SACD) [IMPORT] [SACD]
Virgil Thomson The Plow That Broke the Plains/The River (SACD) IMPORTSACD thomson virgil. Virgil Auteur thomson virgil. Titre
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Index Des Noms - THOMSON Virgil
Translate this page thomson virgil. Chronologie Repère, Ouvrage Presse, Colloque, Conférence, DébatExposition Page contenant un lien vers un autre site. 1982, Le Débat n°21.
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Thomson, Virgil,New Zealand Symphony Orchestra,Sedares, James
Title Virgil Thomson Symphony No1 Subject Classical Author thomson virgilNew Zealand Symphony Orchestra Sedares James Lee MorganB00004GJVH
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VIRGIL THOMSON
Virgil Thomson. Born 25 Nov. Lord Byron, opera in 3 acts and an epilogue;libretto by Jack Larson (20 April 1972, Julliard). About Virgil Thomson.
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Extractions: Died: 30 Sep. 1989, New York, NY (U.S. Opera Home Page) Possibly the most important operatic composer of the early twentieth century, Thomson's two collaborations with Gertrude Stein have overshadowed his final opera, Lord Byron. A fourth opera, based on Webster's The Duchess of Malfi, was never completed. (Search Amazon.com for music by Virgil Thomson Four Saints In Three Acts. Orchestra of Our Time 1992.
Virgil Thomson - Vignettes Of His Life And Times
Biographical and analytical essay by Paul Wittke.Category Arts Music Composition Composers T thomson, virgilHome Composers virgil thomson Essay Contents virgil thomson Vignettes of His Life and Times. updated 19 September 1997 Paul
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Virgil Thomson
Anniversaries for years 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008. Virgil Thomson.Born 25 November 1896, Kansas City (USA) Died 15 December 1989. Music.
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Miscellaneous Songs By Thomson
Virgil Thomson (18961989). Song Cycles. Four Songs to Poems of ThomasCampion Follow your saint. La Belle en dormant (4) (Hugnet);
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Extractions: La Belle en dormant (4) (Hugnet) Le Berceau de Gertrude Stein (8) (Hugnet) Mostly About Love (K. Koch) Praises and Prayers And Did Those Feet (Blake) At the Spring (Fisher) Consider Lord (Donne) Dirge (Webster) English Usage Film: Deux Soeurs qui ne sont pas soeurs (Two Sisters Not Sisters) (Stein) If Thou a Reason Dost Desire to Know (Kynaston) John Peel (J. Graves) Jour de chaleur aux bains de mer (Hot Day at the Seashore) (Mangan, after Rohan) Look, How the Floor of Heaven (Shakespeare) My crow Pluto My Shepherd Will Supply My Need (Watts) Pardon, Goddess of the Night (Shakespeare) Portrait of F. B. (Stein)
Virgil Thomson - Biography
Biography, key works, articles, review.Category Arts Music Composition Composers T thomson, virgilHome Composers virgil thomson. virgil thomson (1896 1989). updated3 May 1999. virgil thomson composed in almost every genre of music.
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Extractions: Virgil Thomson, whose centennial we celebrate in 1996, was a many faceted American composer of great originality and a music critic of singular brilliance. Born in Kansas City, Missouri on 25 November 1896, Thomson studied at Harvard. After a prolonged period in Paris where he studied with Nadia Boulanger and met Cocteau, Stravinsky, Satie, and the artists of Les Six, he returned to the United States where he was chief music critic for the New York Herald Tribune. Virgil Thomson composed in almost every genre of music. Utilizing a musical style marked by sharp wit and overt playfulness, Thomson produced a highly original body of work rooted in American speech rhythms and hymnbook harmony. His music was most influenced by Satie's ideals of clarity, simplicity, irony, and humor. Among his most famous works are the operas Four Saints in Three Acts and The Mother of Us All (both with texts by Gertrude Stein with whom he formed a legendary artistic collaboration), scores to The Plow That Broke the Plains and The River (films by Pare Lorentz), and Louisiana Story (film by Robert Flaherty). In addition to his compositions, he was the author of eight books, including an autobiography. Included in his many honors and awards are the Pulitzer Prize, a Brandeis Award, the gold medal for music from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, the National Book Circle Award, the Kennedy Center Honors, the National Music Council Award, and 20 honorary doctorates.
VIRGIL THOMSON
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Extractions: Died: 30 Sep. 1989, New York, NY (U.S. Opera Home Page) Possibly the most important operatic composer of the early twentieth century, Thomson's two collaborations with Gertrude Stein have overshadowed his final opera, Lord Byron. (Search Amazon.com for music by Virgil Thomson Four Saints In Three Acts. Orchestra of Our Time 1992.
Virgil Thomson's Writings
Essay by Karen L. CarterSchwendler for the International Alliance for Women in Music discusses perceived biases in thomson's musical criticism toward women composers.
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Extractions: The concert reviews of the American composer, essayist, and music critic Virgil Thomson (1896-1989) are generally accepted as some of the best writing about music, indeed as models of good criticism. For Thomson, the career of critic involved cultivating a reputation as a strong-minded polemicist, a consummate promoter and interpreter of contemporary musical culture, and an articulate writer. He reviewed not only art music but also jazz, popular music, film music, theater, and books. Often, especially in his longer articles and books, he approached extra-musical topics in history, finance, and politics. From 1940 to 1954 Thomson was head music critic for the New York Herald Tribune , where his reviews and other articles appeared regularly during the concert season, from about October through April. Due to his popularity, reviews were reprinted in several book-length collections.1 Thomson's engaging prose style and polemical approach captured readers' interest and generated a response which was, if not thoroughly positive, certainly always lively, as is evident in a recently published collection of correspondence between Thomson and his readers.2 Thomson exerted undeniable influence on the New York musical scene and on his readers' views of music and musicians, particularly new American music. Over the years he became known for challenging the managerial policies of performing institutions such as the Metropolitan Opera and the New York Philharmonic which promoted a constricted repertory of largely 19th-century European "mainstream' works. He devoted increasing amounts of his reviewing space to performances of new music. In 1951, after ten years at the
Knitting Circle Virgil Thomson
Essay for the Lesbian and Gay Knitting Circle of South Bank (UK) University. Includes biography, works, film works, writings, and a bibliography.
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Extractions: Biography music film music writing ... bibliography US composer and music critic. Full name Virgil Garnett Thomson. His father was a farmer and then became a postal worker. Virgil Thomson began to study music at the age of 5, and by the age of 12 he was playing the organ at his family's church, Calvary Baptist Church, and at other churches in Kansas City. He attended Central High School from 1908 to 1913, and a local junior college from 1915 to 1917. In January 1917 he enlisted in a mounted artillary outfit with a National Guard regiment, and in August he joined its Medical Detachment. His regiment acquired the name 129th. Field Artillary but it remained in the USA because it was short of men, officers, and equipment. He then moved to aviation and in January 1918 he joined the Pilots' Ground School at the University of Texas. He then went to Columbia University to learn radio telephony. He was commissioned as a lieutenant in the US Air Force but the War ended just before he was due to go abroad. In 1919 he went to Harvard University. He had three main influences. He studied orchestration and modern French music with the French-trained composer Edward Bulingame Hill. For three years Virgil Thomson was assistant and accompanist for Archibald T. Davision who was also French-trained and was the conductor of the Harvard Glee Club. S. Foster Damon was a Blake scholar, a poet, and a composer, and he introduced Virgil Thomson to the works of Erik Satie and also to
WQXR: Classical Music Scene
Entry from the Grove Concise Dictionary of Music at WQXR radio summarizes his life and lists major works. Includes comments on his years as a music critic.
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IHAS Virgil Garnett Thomson
Companion material from the PBS series I Hear America Singing notes his life and his work as composer and music critic.
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Extractions: A s America celebrates the centenary of Virgil Thomson's birth in 1896 with revivals of his works and a new biography in preparation, there is increasing awareness of what a musician's musician this composer and critic truly was. As a composer he created over 150 compositions which skillfully melded indigenous and cosmopolitan influences, while as a writer and lecturer, he devoted himself energetically to elevating musical standards and taste, to creating a wider public for classical music, and to creating a legacy of some of the most elegant, urbane, and intelligent prose that modern music journalism has witnessed. Returning to Harvard in 1922, he took his degree in 1923. For the next three years he commuted between New York and Boston where he served as organist for the King's Chapel, and he began to contribute serious music journalism to publications like Mencken's American Mercury and Vanity Fair. It was not long, however, before Europe would once again exert its siren call, and for the next sixteen years he would cross the Atlantic frequently. In 1927 he journeyed to Spain to collaborate with Gertrude Stein on their opera, FOUR SAINTS IN THREE ACTS, which they completed in 1928. That same year also produced his SYMPHONY ON A HYMN TUNE, as well as the first of a genre he can be credited with inventing: the musical portrait. FOUR SAINTS received its premiere in Hartford in 1934 with an all-black cast in an extraordinary visual production with choreography by Frederick Ashton. This was followed by a second collaboration with Stein, based on the life of suffragette Susan B. Anthony, THE MOTHER OF US ALL, which premiered in 1946 shortly before Stein's death. In the intervening years Thomson created film and ballet scores as well as incidental music for the theatre and visited Paris until the Nazi occupation forced him to flee. Back in New York in 1940, he settled into his final home, The Chelsea Hotel, and accepted a job as music critic for the Herald Tribune, which he retained until 1954. After his resignation from the paper he devoted himself to a third opera, LORD BYRON, and to writing his autobiography in 1966 and his book AMERICAN MUSIC SINCE 1910 in 1971.
Virgil Thomson
Filmography at IMDb lists movies and television programs using his music. Includes biography and comments on his music criticsm and his Pulitzer Prize winning film score.
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Thomson, Virgil
thomson, virgil. thomson, virgil, 18961989, American composer, critic, andorganist, b. Kansas City, Mo. thomson studied in Paris with Nadia Boulanger.
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Extractions: Thomson, Virgil Thomson, Virgil, , American composer, critic, and organist, b. Kansas City, Mo. Thomson studied in Paris with Nadia Boulanger. Until about 1926 he wrote in a dissonant, neoclassic style, but after his Sonata da chiesa (1926) he began to employ a highly simplified style that shows the influence of Erik Satie . He wrote two operas, Four Saints in Three Acts (1928) and The Mother of Us All (1947), for librettos by Gertrude Stein ; music for films including The River (1937) and Louisiana Story (1948); the ballet Filling Station (1937); an opera, Lord Byron (1972); and numerous works for organ, piano, and chamber ensembles. Thomson was music critic for the New York Herald Tribune from 1940 until 1954. His books include
Thomson, Virgil
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