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Virgil Thomson
Virgil Thomson was a manyfaceted American composer of great originality and a music critic of singular brilliance. Born in Kansas City, Missouri on 25
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Extractions: Jump to: navigation search Virgil Thomson, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1947 Virgil Thomson November 25 September 30 ) was an American composer from Kansas City, Missouri who was instrumental in the development of the "American Sound" in classical music so often associated with the patriotic compositions of Aaron Copland Thomson displayed an extraordinary intelligence at an early age. As a child, he befriended Alice Smith, granddaughter of Joseph Smith , founder of the Mormon faith. He attended Harvard University , and his tours of Europe with the Harvard Glee Club helped nurture his desire to return there. Upon his move there, he eventually studied with Nadia Boulanger and became a fixture of "Paris in the twenties." His most important friend from this period was Gertrude Stein , who was an artistic collaborator and mentor to him. Following the publication of his book The State of Music he 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. His writings on music, and his reviews of performances in particular, are noted for their wit and their independent judgments. His definition of music was famously "that which musicians do,"
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Thomson, Virgil American composer, conductor, and music critic whose forward-looking ideas stimulated new lines of thought among contemporary musicians.
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Extractions: Print Article Email Article Cite Article U.S. composer and critic. He attended Harvard University, intending to become a pianist and organist. Studying in Paris with Nadia Boulanger (1921), he met the French composers known as Les Six Gertrude Stein , with whom he wrote the operas Four Saints in Three Acts (1928) and The Mother of Us All Herald Tribune The Plow That Broke the Plains (1936) and The Louisiana Story (1949, Pulitzer Prize). document.writeln(AAMB2); Images and Media: More on "Virgil Thomson" from Britannica Concise Boulanger, Nadia (-Juliette) - French music teacher and conductor. Stein, Gertrude - U.S. avant-garde writer. More on "Virgil Thomson" from the 32 Volume Thomson, Virgil - American composer, conductor, and music critic whose forward-looking ideas stimulated new lines of thought among contemporary musicians. English literature - James Thomson also sided with the opposition to Walpole, but his poetry sustained a much more optimistic vision. In The Seasons (first published as a complete entity in 1730 but then massively revised and expanded until 1746), Thomson meditated upon and described with fascinated precision the phenomena of nature. He brought to the task a vast array of erudition and a delighted absorption in the ... Fugues of the 20th century - The following works include some of the many noteworthy examples of 20th-century fugues:
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Virgil Thomson (composer, born November 25, 1896, Kansas City, Missouri; died September 30, 1989) Virgil Thomson was the original multifaceted elder
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Extractions: Highlight the text above with the cursor. Use (ctrl + c) to copy and (ctrl + v) to paste. Mac users use (cmd + c) to copy and (cmd + v) to paste. Login Bookmark this page Link to this page Home ... Encyclopedia Index 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). Top Search the Library Books
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Extractions: Composer Index 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.
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Anna Kisselgoff reviews Mark Morris Dance Group in dance version of Four Saints in Three Acts, opera by Gertrude Stein and virgil thomson, at Brooklyn
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Critic and composer virgil thomson was a pioneer in creating a specifically American form of classical music that is at once serious yet whimsically
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Extractions: 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.
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virgil thomson, Richard Kostelanetz The work is a setting in the composer s free translation of the Pervigilium Veneris, a collection of rhymed Latin
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Extractions: Virgil Thomson, Richard Kostelanetz : The work is a setting in the composer's free translation of the Pervigilium Veneris , a collection of rhymed Latin stanzas from the second or fourth century A.D. celebrating the three-day festival of Venus. Steve Schwarz : 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) Avian Music : a rarely performed setting of an anonymous second century erotic Latin poem in praise of Venus Paul Wittke : The music is never openly bacchantic, but as in Lord Byron , its not-so-hidden passions are expressed in civilized, Olympian terms. Virgil Thomson : The rhythm is a simultaneous six-against-four, the instrumentation percussive.
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Virgil Thomson And Gertrude Stein Bibliography - UMKC University Libraries
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