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Thomson Virgil:     more books (100)

Virgil Thomson Reader by Virgil Thomson, 1984-04-16 Virgil Thomson: A Reader: Selected Writings, 1924-1984 Virgil Thompson: Composer on the Aisle by Anthony Tommasini, 1998-12-01 Prepare for Saints: Gertrude Stein, Virgil Thomson, and the Mainstreaming of American Modernism by Steven Watson, 1995-07-16 The Selected Letters of Virgil Thomson by Tim Page, 1989-09 Virgil Thomson: A Bio-Bibliography (Bio-Bibliographies in Music) by Michael Meckna, 1986-08-13 Selected Letters of Virgil Thomson (AUTHOR SIGNED FIRST EDITION) by Virgil edited by Tom Page and Vanessa Weeks Page Thomson, 1988 The Letters of Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thomson: Composition as Conversation Virgil Thomson - An Autobiography by Virgil Thomson, 1985-04-24 Virgil Thomson: His Life and Music by Kathleen O. Hoover, John Cage, 1911-11 FOUR SAINTS IN THREE ACTS - SOUVENIR PROGRAM - NOVEMBER 1986 by GERTRUDE & VIRGIL THOMSON STEIN, 1986 American Music Since 1910 by Virgil Thomson, 1999-01 Music with Words: A Composer`s View by Virgil Thomson, 1989-09-10 The musical scene by Virgil Thomson, 1968

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1. Classical Net - Basic Repertoire List - Thomson
   Virgil Thomson. ( 1896 1989) 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  
   http://www.classical.net/music/comp.lst/thomson.html
   
   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)

2. Virgil Thomson
   Virgil Thomson Filmography, Awards, Biography, Agent, Discussions, Photos, News Articles, Fan Sites Discuss this person with other users on IMDb message board for Virgil Thomson. Find where Virgil Thomson is credited alongside another name. Virgil Thomson  
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3. MusicaBona | Classical Music Shop | Virgil Thomson
   Venta online de música clásica checa - Venta de CD - Otros compositores - Virgil Thomson Thomas Ambroise( 1811-1896) thomson virgil( 1896-1989) Tischenko Boris Zimmer Hans( 1957-) Virgil Thomson ( 1896-1989)  
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4. Virgil Thomson
   Virgil Thomson. If you have an electronic picture of. Virgil Thomson. that I can publish here  
   http://www.classical-composers.org/cgi-bin/ccd.cgi?comp=thomson

5. MSN Encarta - Search Results - Thomson Virgil
   Encarta Search results for thomson virgil . Page 1 of 1. Found in the Pulitzer Prize Winners table. 3. Magazine and news articles about thomson virgil *.  
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   Extractions: MSN Home My MSN Hotmail Shopping ... Money Web Search: logoImg('http://sc.msn.com'); Encarta Subscriber Sign In Help Home ... Upgrade to Encarta Premium Search Encarta Encarta Search results for "Thomson Virgil" Page of 1 Exclusively for MSN Encarta Premium Subscribers Thomson, Virgil Article—Encarta Encyclopedia Thomson, Virgil (1896-1989), American composer whose work is often whimsical or irreverent, born in Kansas City, Missouri. He served in the U.S.... related items teacher of Virgil Thomson musical style performances of works works of Virgil Thomson ... Pulitzer Prize Winners: Music Chart or Table—Encarta Encyclopedia Found in the Pulitzer Prize Winners table Magazine and news articles about Thomson Virgil

6. Virgil Thomson --  Encyclopædia Britannica
   Thomson, Virgil Encyclopædia Britannica Article. 25, 1896, Kansas City, Mo., US died Sept. 30, 1989, New York, NY Virgil thomson virgil Thomson David Gahr.  
   http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?eu=74097&tocid=0&query=pare lorentz

7. Virgil Thomson Sheet Music 3!
   Virgil Thomson Sheet Music, Scores. Digital and Paper sheets. Virgil Thomson Sheet Music, Scores, Tabs 3 Virgil Thomson Features!  
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8. Fnac.com  - Disques Classiques  - Virgil Thomson
   Virgil ThomsonVirgil thomson virgil Thomson (18961989) Composer, critic Composer Virgil Thomson began his musical training at age five, and by  
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9. Gleebooks - Early And As Remembered: Virgil Thomson 1896 - 1989 Display Music CD
   Music Title, BACK. Title Early and As Remembered. Subtitle Virgil Thomson 1896 1989. Artist thomson virgil. Publisher NEW ALBION RECORDS. Binding Compact Disc.  
   http://www.gleebooks.com.au/dev/music3/display_book2.asp?bookid=022551003422

10. Thomson Virgil: Symphonies - Thomson Virgil - Www.merlin.com.pl
    kompozytor thomson virgil Tytul thomson virgil Symphonies Nosnik CD Dzial muzyka Identyfikator 8559022 Firma fonograficzna Naxos.  
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11. Virgil Thomson - Vignettes Of His Life And Times
    Home Composers virgil thomson Essay Contents virgil thomson Vignettes of His Life and Times. updated 19 September 1997 Paul  
    http://www.schirmer.com/composers/thomson/essay.html

12. Virgil Thomson
    Virgil Thomson. Virgil Thomson (November 25, 1896 September 30, 1989) was an American composer from Missouri, whose rural background  
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    Extractions: Main Page See live article Alphabetical index Virgil Thomson November 25 September 30 ) was an American composer from Missouri , whose rural background gave a sense of place in his compositions. He studied with Nadia Boulanger, and later established himself in New York City , as a peer of Aaron Copland and was also a music critic for the New York Herald-Tribune from 1940 through 1954. In the 1930s, he worked as a theatre and film composer. His first film commission was The Plow That Broke the Plains , sponsored by the United States Resettlement Administration. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1949 with his film score for Louisiana Story He worked with Gertrude Stein on the operas Four Saints in Three Acts and The Mother of Us All

13. Music With Words: A Composer's View Virgil Thomson
    Title Music with Words A Composer s View thomson virgil Virgil Thomson Subject Composition (Music) Category Music Stage Screen Music General Format  
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14. Virgil Thomson - Biography
    Home Composers virgil thomson. virgil thomson (1896 1989). updated 3 November 2003. virgil thomson composed in almost every genre of music.  
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    Extractions: Virgil Thomson 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.

15. Virgil Thomson's Writings
    virgil thomson s Herald Tribune Writings Fulfilling the Cultural Obligation‹Selectively. 17. Selected Letters of virgil thomson, 127.  
    http://music.acu.edu/www/IAWM/articles/june95/thomson.html
    
    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

16. Thomson, Virgil
    thomson, virgil. thomson, virgil 18961989, American composer, critic, and organist, b Photos)Died, virgil thomson. ( obituary) ( Time)thomson, virgil ( The Reader's Companion to  
    http://www.infoplease.com/cgi-bin/id/A0848563
    
    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 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

17. 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.  
    http://www.wqxr.com/cgi-bin/iowa/cla/learning/grove.html?record=9324

18. Virgil Thomson Foundation
    American composer virgil thomson, including list of works and resources, and the virgil thomson Foundation, supporting serious music  
    http://www.virgilthomson.org/

19. VIRGIL THOMSON
    Entry at US Opera lists his three operas and one libretto and includes details of his final operatic work, Lord Byron.  
    http://www.hapka.com/usopera/composers/thomsonv/
    
    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.

20. 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.  
    http://www.pbs.org/wnet/ihas/composer/thomson.html
    
    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.

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