THOMSON, VIRGIL

1896–1989, 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 16-minute quintet 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 voice, organ, piano, and chamber ensembles. Thomson was music critic for the New York Herald Tribune from 1940 until 1954. His books include The State of Music (1939), The Musical Scene (1945), The Art of Judging Music (1948), and American Music since 1910 (1971).

See his autobiography (1966); biography by A. Tommasini (1997).

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books on: Thomson Virgil  - 2821 results

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A Commentary on Virgil, Eclogues
Book by Wendell Vernon Clausen, Virgil; Oxford University Press, 1995
Subjects: Country Life In Literature, Country Life--Rome--Poetry, Pastoral Poetry, Latin, Pastoral Poetry, Latin--History And Criticism, Pastoral Poetry, Latin--Translations Into English, Virgil--Bucolica
VIRGIL Eclogues A COMMENTARY ON VIRGIL Eclogues BY WENDELL CLAUSEN CLARENDON PRESS OXFORD...of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data A commentary on Virgil, Ecologues / By Wendell Clausen . Includes bibliographical references...
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Virgil, Aeneid 7: A Commentary
Book by Virgil, Nicholas Horsfall; Brill, 2000
Subjects: Aeneas (Legendary Character) In Literature, Epic Poetry, Latin--History And Criticism, Rome--In Literature, Virgil--Aeneis--Liber 7
VIRGIL, AENEID MNEMOSYNE BIBLIOTHECA CLASSICA BATAVA (:01,1,F,(;ERLjNf H. PINKSTER. H.W. Pf,EKI,I CJ. RUIJGH...SEMINARIUM, nUDE TLIRFMA12KI 129, AMSFERDAM SUPPLEMENTUM CENTESIMUM NONAGESIMUM OCTAVUM NICHOLAS HORSFALL VIRGIL, AENEID 7 VIRGIL, AENEID 7 A COMMENTARY BY NICHOLAS HORSFALL BRILL LEIDEN BOSTON KOLN 2000 This book is printed...
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Virgil
Book by Michael Ayrton, A. J. Gossage, W. F. Jackson Knight, A. G. Mckay, Brooks Otis, J. H. Whitfield, R. D. Williams, D. E. W. Wormell, D. R. Dudley; Basic Books, 1969
Subjects: Latin Poetry--History And Criticism, Rome--In Literature, Virgil--Criticism And Interpretation
VIRGIL STUDIES IN LATIN LITERATURE AND ITS INFLUENCE Editors...G. M. Paul, P. G. Walsh, E. A. Thompson, J. Campbell VIRGIL Chapters by M. Ayrton, B. Otis, A. J. Gossage, J. H...Knight, R. D. Williams, A. J. McKay, D. E. W. Wormell VIRGIL Chapters by Michael Ayrton Brooks Otis A. J. Gossage...
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Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius, and the Didactic Tradition
Book by Monica R. Gale; Cambridge University Press, 2000
Subjects: Allusions In Literature, Didactic Poetry, Latin--History And Criticism, Intertextuality, Lucretius Carus, Titus--De Rerum Natura, Lucretius Carus, Titus--Influence, Philosophy, Ancient, In Literature, Rome--In Literature, Virgil--Georgica, Virgil--Knowledge--Literature, Virgil--Philosophy
...Georgics forms the basis for a reading of Virgils poem as an extended meditation on the...Myth and Poetry in Lucretius 1994 . VIRGIL ON THE NATURE OF THINGS The Georgics...the natural world 58 4 Virgils metamorphoses: mythological allusions...
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The Tradition of Virgil: Three Papers on the History and Influence of the Poet
Book by Junius S. Morgan, Kenneth McKenzie, Charles G. Osgood; Princeton University Press, 1930
Subjects: Virgil
...truth from pole to pole. In Thomson Seasons and in other important...are to me by far the best of Virgil." Thus in schools and tendencies...lesser descendants--to Pope, Thomson, Cowper, Wordsworth. Milton...final effect. Milton like Virgil, long choosing and beginning...
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"A Just Balance between Patronage and the Press": The Case of James Thomson
Journal article by James Sambrook; Studies in the Literary Imagination, Vol. 34, 2001
Subjects: Authors and patrons--Moral and ethical aspects, Authors--Finance, Canon (Literature)--Research, English literature, 1700-1775 (Early 18th century)--Moral and ethical aspects, Thomson, James--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...of trading cash for flattery. Even before he met Lyttelton, Thomson was turning himself into exactly the kind of "patriot poet" that Lyttelton had sought when, in 1730, he imagined Virgil advising Pope not to waste his talents on satire: Of...
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Frozen with Fear: Virgil's Aeneid and Act 4, Scene 1 of Shakespeare's the Second Part of King Henry VI
Journal article by George F. Butler; Philological Quarterly, Vol. 79, 2000
Subjects: Aeneid (Poem)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Fear--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Henry VI (Theater)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Shakespeare, William--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Virgil--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...perhaps alluding to Virgil, Aeneid 7.446; Lucan...editors suggests, Thomsons brief discussion...Suffolks speech. While Thomson and Shakespeares...presence of Lucan and Virgil in 4.1.116 of The...6.54-55). While Thomson points to this passage...to Suffolks words, Virgil is more likely suggesting...
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Epic, Ode, or Something New: The Blending of Genres in Thomson's Spring
Journal article by Sandro Jung; Papers on Language & Literature, Vol. 43, 2007
Subjects: English poets--Works, Poetic structure--Analysis, Spring (Poem)--Criticism and interpretation, Thomson, James (Scottish poet 1700-1748)--Works
...instructive aspect of poetry Thomson mentioned in the "Preface...georgic mode he adopted from Virgil. Rather than writing a purely...contexts of classical epic or Virgilian georgic while, at the same...category of "correctness." Thomson, generically, is closer to...
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Sleepwalking into Modernity: Bourdieu and the Case of Ernest Dowson
Journal article by Stephen Thomson; Criticism, Vol. 41, 1999
Subjects: Bourdieu, Pierre--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Canon (Literature)--Standards, Dowson, Ernest--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Literary movements--Evaluation
...that this gesture is itself already, at the origin, a classical topos. As Eliot remarks, Virgil could not know that he would become the Classic, Virgil.(46) But, I would add, he was betting on it. Such knowledge can only come after, nachtraglich...
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"Brightness Falls": Magic in the Short Stories of Mary Butts
Journal article by Roslyn Reso Foy; Studies in Short Fiction, Vol. 36, 1999
Subjects: Butts, Mary--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Goddess religion--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Magic--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Occultism--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Short stories, English--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...conjures in her own magical and supernatural world. Virgil Thomson called her "the storm goddess" who could "stir...Life of Aleister Crowley. London: Rider, 1951. Thomson, Virgil. Virgil Thomson. New York: Knopf, 1966. Underhill, Evelyn. Mysticism...
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Gertrude's High Note
Magazine article by Joseph Carman; The Advocate, April 11, 2000
Subjects: Gays--Portrayals, New York City Opera--Performances, Operas, Stein, Gertrude--Works, Theater direction, Theater production, Theater--Production and direction, Thomson, Virgil--Works
...cocreators Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thomson, gets a glossy new production...The Mother of Us All, composer Virgil Thomson said wistfully, "I am sorry now...would not always be living." Thomsons comment proved more far-reaching...
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Twenty Who Made Their Mark under Thirty: A Historical Look at the Great Gay and Lesbian Prodigies in the Arts
Magazine article by John Weir; The Advocate, August 19, 1997
Subjects: Actors--Behavior, Authors--Behavior, Colette--Behavior, Composers--Behavior, Dancers--Behavior, Gays--Behavior, Gifted persons--Behavior, Hudson, Rock--Behavior, Lesbians--Behavior, Nureyev, Rudolf--Behavior, Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich--Behavior, Thomson, Virgil--Behavior, Writers--Behavior
...The Advocate. Inside the velvet closet Virgil Thomson (1896-1989) By the time Thomson was 30, he had finished the Prologue and Act...its world premiere for almost ten years, but Thomson spent much of that time performing it for potential...
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Cannon Ball
Magazine article by Michael Duncan; Artforum International, Vol. 37, Summer 1999
Subjects: Four Saints in Three Acts (Opera)--Bibliography, Operas--Bibliography, Prepare for the Saints: Gertrude Stein, Virgil Thomson, and the Mainstreaming of American Modernism (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Watson, Steve--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...chronicle of the making of the 1934 Virgil Thomson/Gertrude Stein opera, Four Saints...show, goshdarnit (the composer Virgil Thomson); a bunch of unknown players...creates a buoyant, comic hero out of Virgil Thomson, a foxy, baby-faced figure who...
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Music
Magazine article by Andre Bernard; American Scholar, Vol. 73, Winter 2004
Subjects: Music, Music--Analysis
...thinking I was not to be a musician, that I was one already, that music was my life and always would be. --VIRGIL THOMSON, Virgil Thomson, 1966 In an insightful portrait of Miles Davis as the moody potentate of jazz, the critic Kenneth Tynan...
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Audubon in Sound: Messiaen's Radiant Birdsongs
Magazine article by Matthew Gurewitsch; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 279, March 1997
Subjects: Classical music, Composers, Messiaen, Olivier, Music
Audubon in Sound: Messiaens Radiant Birdsongs. by Matthew Gurewitsch IN 1945 Virgil Thomson was spreading the word to America of a "thirty-seven-year-old boy wonder" whom Parisians were calling the "atomic bomb of contemporary...
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BATTLE OF THE CLANSMAN; Attack by Old Thugs 'Like Something from Still Game'
Newspaper article; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), November 8, 2007
Subjects: The Clansman (Novel), Thomson, Hugh
...who went to his aid but ended up alongside him in hospital. As the pair sat nudging each other in the dock, Thomsons lawyer, Virgil Crawford, said: "I dont mean to make jokes but these are the kind of old chaps youd see on Still Game on the...
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'JACK AND VICTOR' IN CLANSMAN PUNCH-UP; Attack by Old Thugs 'Like Scene from Still Game'
Newspaper article; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), November 8, 2007
Subjects: Comedy programs, Television comedies
...23, went to his aid but ended up alongside him in hospital. As the pair sat nudging each other in the dock, Thomsons lawyer, Virgil Crawford, said: "I dont mean to make jokes but these are the kind of old chaps youd see on Still Game on the...
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Virtuous in Its Imperfection
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), April 11, 2005
Subjects: Runnicles, Donald
...chief conductor; best known in Wagner and post-Wagnerian repertoire, he conducts everything from Mozart and Puccini to Virgil Thomson and Britten, so he has the range. Instead the job went to Jirc Belohlavek, but Runnicless association with the orchestra...
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Germany's Composer, Gertrude Stein's Friend
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, January 6, 2008
Subjects: Composers, Festivals, Malcolm, Janet
...as he was universally called among his circle of sycophants, was a rough diamond. In the words of American composer Virgil Thomson, he was "Perfidious in friendship, ungrateful in love, irresponsible in politics, and utterly without principle in...
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Premiere for 'Democracy'; Wheeler's First Full Opera to Open Tonight at Lisner
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, January 28, 2005
Subjects: Wheeler, Scott
...and religion. A D.C. native, Mr. Wheeler currently teaches at Bostons Emerson College. His instructors have included Virgil Thomson, Arthur Berger, and Lewis Spratlan, and his works have been performed by the New York City Opera, soprano Renee Fleming...
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encyclopedia articles on: Thomson Virgil  - 7 results

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Thomson, Virgil
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
THOMSON, VIRGIL 1896 1989, American composer, critic, and organist, b. Kansas City, Mo. Thomson studied in Paris with Nadia Boulanger...voice, organ, piano, and chamber ensembles. Thomson was music critic for the New York Herald...
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Bowles, Paul
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
BOWLES, PAUL 1910 99, American writer and composer, b. New York City. He studied in Paris with Virgil Thomson and Aaron Copland and composed (1930s 40s) a number of modernist operas, ballets, song cycles, and orchestral and chamber pieces...
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Harrison, Lou
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...period he also collaborated with John Cage . Moving to New York in 1943, Harrison became a music critic, part of Virgil Thomson s circle, and a friend of Charles Ives , whose music he championed. All these composers influenced Harrisons extremely...
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Boulanger, Nadia
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...Fontainebleau, becoming its director in 1950. As the teacher of such American composers as Walter Piston, Aaron Copland, Virgil Thomson, Roy Harris, and Marc Blitzstein, she has profoundly influenced American music. She often visited the United States...
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Morris, Mark
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...Il Moderato (1988), Dido and Aeneas (1989), The Office (1995), Greek to Me (2000), a dance version of the Virgil Thomson Gertrude Stein opera Four Saints in Three Acts (2001), the ballet The Garden (2001), the modern dance pieces...
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