Virgil Thomson (November 25, 1896 – September 30, 1989) was an American composer and critic. He was instrumental in the development of the "American Sound"...

study painting in France. He designed the scenario for two operas by Virgil Thomson: Four Saints in Three Acts (1934) and The Mother of Us All (1947). In...

Lorentz independently while the music score was written by composer Virgil Thomson. The film was narrated by the American actor and baritone Thomas Hardie...

Bob Dylan, Arthur C. Clarke, Patti Smith, Robert Mapplethorpe, and Virgil Thomson. The Chelsea received much commentary for the creative culture that...

ISBN 2-235-01889-0. Virgil Thomson: Virgil Thomson (New York: Library of America & Penguin Random House, 2016), ISBN 978-1-59853-476-4, p. 135–136; Virgil Thomson and...

4 August 2003. Thomson, Virgil (1988). Selected letters of Virgil Thomson. New York: Summit Books. p. 54. Virgil Thomson Virgil Thomson. Library of America...

books on the music of his colleague and mentor, the composer and critic Virgil Thomson. A classical music enthusiast since his youth, Tommasini attended both...

about the band ever written." Sheffield won the ASCAP Foundation's Virgil Thomson Award for Outstanding Music Criticism for Dreaming the Beatles in 2017...

Hubert Parry – Three Chorale Fantasias is based on the Old 100th. Virgil Thomson – quoted in several movements of his score for The Plow that Broke the...

(hardcover) Paperback reprint 2006. ISBN 978-0-8108-5728-5. Thomson, Virgil. 2002. Virgil Thomson: A Reader: Selected Writings, 1924–1984, edited by Richard...

as Mistress Ford in Verdi’s Falstaff. Having heard the performance, Virgil Thomson engaged her in Four Saints in Three Acts, prior to embarking on her...

1931. The entire concert (which also included work by Copland and Virgil Thomson) was panned by New York critics. (Bowles's first-known composition was...

music from The River, a documentary film score by the concert composer Virgil Thomson, by featuring an adaptation of the hymn "How Firm a Foundation". Although...

and politician Virgil Thomson (1896–1989), an American composer and music critic Virgil van Dijk (born 1991), a Dutch footballer Virgil Williams, American...

Cambridge University Press, 1992, p. 13. ISBN 0-521-31483-6. Virgil Thomson. Virgil Thomson: A Reader: Selected Writings, 1924–1984, edited by Richard Kostelanetz...

Toscanini concert, she spotted the critic Virgil Thomson dozing during the performance. Knowing that Thomson frequently gave her father negative reviews...

Souhami, p. 192-194 Souhami, p. 195 Virgil Thomson, "A Portrait of Gertrude Stein", in An Autobiography of Virgil Thomson, p. 176-177 Tamara Ann Ramsay, Discursive...

and And Be My Love (1934). Composer Virgil Thomson recruited him to direct Four Saints in Three Acts (1934), Thomson's collaboration with Gertrude Stein...

segment of the musical piece "Acadian Songs and Dances", composed by Virgil Thomson (1896–1989); from the film "Louisiana Story" (1948) Squeeze Box: The...

Jones, Dinu Lipatti, Igor Markevitch, Julia Perry, Astor Piazzolla, Virgil Thomson, and George Walker. Boulanger taught in the U.S. and England, working...

Ormandy 1983 Katherine Dunham Elia Kazan Frank Sinatra James Stewart Virgil Thomson 1984 Lena Horne Danny Kaye Gian Carlo Menotti Arthur Miller Isaac Stern...

Harvey and Gertrude Lawrence, and the African-American cast of the Virgil Thomson–Gertrude Stein opera Four Saints in Three Acts (1934). In 1934, Miller...

French release), with music composed by Marc Blitzstein and arranged by Virgil Thomson. The film opens in the village of Fuentidueña de Tajo (called "Fuentedueña"...

exquisite corpse being played in a bar. In the 1940s, composers John Cage, Virgil Thomson, Henry Cowell, and Lou Harrison, composed a set of pieces using this...

work, Larson wrote the libretto to the opera Lord Byron to music by Virgil Thomson. Larson was the life partner of director James Bridges from 1958 until...

Mother of Us All is a two-act opera composed by Virgil Thomson to a libretto by Gertrude Stein. Thomson and Stein met in 1945 to begin the writing process...

Duran: Temistocle James Thomson, Scottish poet Virgil Thomson: Lord Byron Virgil Thomson, American composer and critic Virgil Thomson: The Mother of Us All...

productions of groundbreaking works, directing her choir and working with Virgil Thomson and Gertrude Stein on Four Saints in Three Acts (1933), and serving...

presentation. However, after a glowing review by influential New York critic Virgil Thomson in 1947, her popularity in the U.S grew to the point where she eventually...

Faÿ was a friend of Stein, Alice B. Toklas and the American composer Virgil Thomson, who owed to Faÿ his access to French intellectual circles since Faÿ...