Virgil Thomson

...Donald Pippin and William Corbett-Jones, will perform music associated with Tede, including songs by Kirke Mechem, Ron McFarland and Virgil Thomson. The free concert is in Knuth Hall at San Francisco State University, 1600 Holloway Ave. (415)...

In this article: San Francisco State University, Soprano, and William Corbett

...THE PLOW THAT BROKE THE PLAIN and THE RIVER </strong> Two New Deal documentaries with original scores by KC-born composer Virgil Thomson will be screened at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Plaza Library as part of a presentation by...

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The program will include works by such widely known composers as Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, Stephen Foster, Charles Ives and Virgil Thomson. But most of it is devoted to exploring songs by little-known or entirely unknown composers,...

In this article: Thomas Hampson, Library of Congress, American classical music, New York Philharmonic, University of Colorado at Boulder, Francis Hopkinson, Jean Berger, and Arthur Farwell

...was but a mere extract of this mad confection. All of which is water off a duck's back for anyone used to the truly mad operas of Virgil Thomson and Gertrude Stein. Besides, hidden amid the nonsense were some great moments: a tiny but...

In this article: Carmen, Twitter, and Gertrude Stein

...think a woman could do it, that lit a fire under her and made her work harder," Ms. Strom said. She also studied music with Virgil Thomson, and even cooked dinner for the famous American composer and food aficionado. But he wasn't fooled by...

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Virgil Thomson, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1947 Virgil Thomson (November 25, 1896 - September 30, 1989) was an American composer and critic from Kansas City, Missouri. He was instrumental in the development of the "American Sound"...

In this article: Yale University, Gertrude Stein, Orson Welles, Macbeth, Pulitzer Prize for Music, Mormon, The Mother of Us All, Lord Byron, and Four Saints in Three Acts

...David Robertson was on hand with an intelligently curated program of mid-century American music. Specifically, vocal works by Virgil Thomson and Samuel Barber were framed with a pair of symphonies - by Roy Harris and Leonard Bernstein - both...

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...a week's time, letters began pouring into the Globe, mostly in praise of his work. "Surely,'' wrote one reader, "not since Virgil Thomson retired as music critic of the New York Herald Tribune, have we witnessed in daily journalism so...

In this article: Fantasia, San Francisco Symphony, Boston, New York Philharmonic, Symphony No. 3, New York Herald Tribune, Princeton University, and Delusion

...proud Porgy. I'm waiting for a performance where "I've Got Plenty O' Nuttin' " is treated as both angry social satire and a swipe at Virgil Thomson (the critic and composer who had a snippy attitude toward Gershwin). Walker treated it as...

In this article: Porgy, George Gershwin, Porgy and Bess, Bramwell Tovey, Hollywood Bowl, John Mauceri, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and Pacific Chorale

...(1983) and "Powaqqatsi" (1988) half a century later. It was Lorentz's decision to collaborate with the American composer Virgil Thomson (1896-1989) that elevated these films from visually arresting but decidedly of-its-time documentary...

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