Virgil Thomson

...we heard 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...

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...by William C. Banfield to a libretto by the poet Karren LaLonde Alenier (performed with two other operas based on texts by Stein, Virgil Thomson's 1927 Capital Capitals and Ned Rorem's 1968 Three Sisters Who Are Not Sisters, 2005) New York...

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...one-act operas. There will be the premiere of David Bruce's "Bird in Your Ear," paired with an abridged version of the landmark experimental opera "Four Saints in Three Acts" by Virgil Thomson, with a libretto by Gertrude Stein. The fanciful...

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...Red and the Yazoo" rivers sounds more like a declamation from Groucho Marx). Thomson has left a detailed description of the working method he evolved with Lorentz. "I played to Pare on the piano all the material that I planned to use and got...

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...Park apartment. That night the Auditorium overflowed with the cream of Chicago society, drawn by the hype surrounding Four Saints, as well as by the promised presence of Stein and Thomson, who would conduct the orchestra. Stein wore a...

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...strings . Wayne Koestenbaum has described the loose narrative of his libretto as a "collage" in the style of Gertrude Stein's libretto for Four Saints in Three Acts, an opera by 20th century American composer, Virgil Thomson. Koestenbaum...

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...only turning to the theater when those markets collapsed in 1929 and receiving his first opportunity of any note in 1933 when composer Virgil Thomson recruited him to direct Four Saints in Three Acts, Thomson's collaboration with Gertrude...

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...piano version) was available in print from the end of 1919 on. It is said Gertrude Stein became an admirer of Satie hearing Virgil Thomson perform the Socrate music on his piano. In June 1920 the first public performance of the orchestral...

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...and George Washington. Fay was a friend of Gertrude Stein and of the American composer Virgil Thomson, who owed to Fay his access to French intellectual circles, for Fay knew everyone in musical and literary Paris. In 1935 Fay wrote La...

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