21. Virgil Thomson Essay for the Lesbian and Gay Knitting Circle of South Bank (UK) University. Includes biography, works, film works, writings, and a bibliography. http://www.sbu.ac.uk/stafflag/virgilthomson.html

22. Reader's Companion To American History - -THOMSON, VIRGIL thomson, virgil. (18961989), composer and critic. Kathleen Hoover and John Cage, virgil thomson His Life and Music (1959). Barbara L. Tischler. See also Music. http://college.hmco.com/history/readerscomp/rcah/html/ah_085700_thomsonvirgi.htm

Entries Publication Data Advisory Board Contributors ... World Civilizations The Reader's Companion to American History THOMSON, VIRGIL , composer and critic. As a composer, Thomson utilized a wide variety of musical materials, from Gregorian chant to Baptist hymns and popular tunes that are, in his words, "as ordinary as Dick's hatband," to reflect his own stylistic eclecticism as well as the diversity of the American landscape and its people. As a critic, he consistently recognized the importance of individual creativity for the American composer but also advocated learning from and using, rather than rejecting, European compositional models. Thomson began his piano and organ study in Kansas City, where he was born. After brief service in the military in World War I, he began formal composition study at Harvard University with Edward Burlingame Hill. He studied organ and counterpoint with Nadia Boulanger in Paris in 1921-1922 and contributed reviews to the Boston Evening Transcript. After a brief return to the United States, Thomson settled in Paris, where he lived until 1940. Thomson was introduced to the writings of Gertrude Stein during his Harvard career, and he set the American expatriate writer's "Susie Asado" to music prior to meeting her in 1926. Their collaboration produced the opera

23. Virgil Thomson Biographical text accompanying the Alice Neel painting of the composer at the Smithsonian Institution's National Portrait Gallery. http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/brush/thom.htm

Virgil Thomson Composer, critic 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." Alice Neel (1900-1984) Oil on canvas, 1971

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Encyclopedia Discussion Forgot Your Password? Not a Member Yet? JOIN TODAY. IT'S FREE! Advertising Opportunities Terms of Service Alpha Index: A-B C-F G-K L-Q ... T-Z Subjects: A-B C-E F-L M-Z Thomson, Virgil (1896-1989) Critic and composer Virgil Thomson was a pioneer in creating a specifically American form of classical music that is at once "serious" yet whimsically sardonic. He is best known as Gertrude Stein's collaborator in two operas, Four Saints in Three Acts (1934) and The Mother of Us All The hymn melodies that shape the score of Four Saints are an echo of Thomson's earliest musical career, that of an organist in a Baptist church in Kansas City, Missouri, where he was born on November 25, 1896 into a tolerant, middle-class family. His mother especially encouraged his musical and artistic talents, which were obvious very early. Sponsor Message. Thomson joined the United States Army in 1917 and served during World War I. After the war, he studied music at Harvard University, where he discovered Tender Buttons (1914), Stein's playful and elaborately encoded poetic work of lesbian eroticism.

27. The Kennedy Center Honors Virgil Thomson Biography and portrait accompanying the Center's 1983 ceremonies. Includes analysis of his musical and writing talents and of his skill as critic and composer. http://www.kennedy-center.org/programs/specialevents/honors/history/honoree/thom

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29. Virgil Garnett Thomson And The Musical Portrait. [Index] Brief biography, key works, suggested reading, timeline, recommended recordings, quotes, and historical and societal context from Humanities Web. http://www.humanitiesweb.org/cgi-bin/human.cgi?s=c&p=c&a=i&ID=90

30. 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. http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0861110/

Top Movies Photo Galleries ... Film All Titles My Movies People Characters Quotes Bios Plots All (old) More searches Tips IMDbPro.com free trial Virgil Thomson categorized combined sorted by ratings sorted by votes titles for sale ... agent photo gallery news articles on tv this week official site miscellaneous photographs sound clip(s) video clip(s) Virgil Thomson Page 1 of 13 Add estate info Date of birth (location) 25 November Kansas City, Missouri, USA Date of death (details) 30 September New York, New York, USA. Mini biography One of the driving forces, both as critic and musician, of 20th century... (show more) Virgil Thomson Amazon.com Video DVD Soundtrack Also available: Books Filmography as: Composer Himself Composer - filmography Day After, The (1983) (TV) Journey to America (1964) Power Among Men (1958) Goddess, The (1958) ... Plow That Broke the Plains, The (1936) Filmography as: Composer Himself - filmography King Lear (1953) (TV) (conductor) Spanish Earth, The (1937) (music arranger) ... aka This Spanish Earth (1937) Filmography as: Composer Himself Himself - filmography George Gershwin Remembered (1987) (TV) .... Himself

31. Thomson, Virgil thomson, virgil thomson, virgil. Period Early 20th Century. Born Wednesday, November 25, 1896 in Kansas City, Missouri (USA). Died http://www.stevenestrella.com/composers/composerfiles/thomson1989.html

Thomson, Virgil Thomson, Virgil Period: Early 20th Century Born: Wednesday, November 25, 1896 in Kansas City, Missouri (USA) Died: Saturday, September 30, 1989 in New York, New York (USA) Nation of Origin: United States CLICK HERE for CDs of this composer. CLICK HERE for Books about this composer. CLICK HERE for Sheet Music by this composer. Major Works: Film Score to Louisiana Story Other Information: His film Score to Louisiana Story won the 1949 Pulitzer prize. General Bibliography: Kennedy, Michael, The Oxford Dictionary of Music, Oxford University Press, 2nd Edition, 1997, ISBN: 0198691629 Sadie, Stanley and Tyrrell, John; Editors, The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Groves Dictionaries, Inc., January 2001, ISBN: 1561592390 Slonimsky, Nicolas and Kuhn, Laura; Editors, Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, Gale Group, December 2000, ISBN: 0028655257 Slonimsky, Nicolas, ... Schirmer Books, July 1994, ISBN: 0028724186 Links to essays at other sites: Twentieth Century Music: An Introduction by Eric Salzman Please note: These links will open in a new window.

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34. Thomson, Virgil. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 2001. thomson, virgil. 1896–1989, American composer, critic, and organist, b. Kansas City, Mo. thomson studied in Paris with Nadia Boulanger. http://www.bartleby.com/65/th/ThmsnV.html

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Search The Infography: Thomson, Virgil (1896-1989) The following sources are recommended by a professor whose research specialty is Virgil Thomson. Six Superlative Sources Huszar, John. Virgil Thomson at 90. Videocassette, VHS format. FilmAmerica, 1991. Meckna, Michael. Virgil Thomson: A Bio-Bibliography. Greenwood Press, 1986. Schonberg, Harold C. "Virgil Thomson: Parisian from Missouri," HiFi/Stereo Review, xiv/5 (1965), 43-56. Tommasini, Anthony. Virgil Thomson: Comnposer on the Aisle. Norton, 1997. Thomson, Virgil. Virgil Thomson. Knopf, 1966. Virgil Thomson, at the Boosey and Hawkes Web Site http://www.boosey.com/pages/cr/composer/composer_main.asp?composerid=2755 Other Excellent Sources Hoover, Kathleen, and John Cage. Virgil Thomson: His Life and Music. Yoseloff, 1959. Jackson, Richard. "Thomson, Virgil," in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera. Macmillan, 1992. Kostelanetz, Richard. "Introduction to Virgil Thomson," Twentieth-Century Music iv/8 (1997), 1-4. Meckna, Michael. "Sacred and Secular America: Virgil Thomson's Symphony on a Hymn Tune," American Music vii/4 (1990), 465-76. Page, Tim, and Vanessa Weeks Page. Selected Letters of Virgil Thomson. Summit Books, 1988.

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Encyclopedia 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 The State of Music The Musical Scene The Art of Judging Music (1948), and American Music since 1910 See his autobiography (1966); biography by A. Tommasini (1997). The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, Thomson, Tom Thomson, William Print this page Cite this page AD AD AD ADS Link to Fact Monster Add Fact Monster search to your site ... Privacy Brought to you by:

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