Virgil Thomson

...Saints. " In the evening a staged oratorio performance of the opera, in a pared-down version prepared by Thomson, will be presented by Encompass Opera Theater, with the soloists, chorus and 16-piece orchestra conducted by Mara Waldman. Film,...

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...at Columbia. In 1957, De Paur discontinued the chorus and produced the De Paur Opera Gala, which featured Virgil Thomson's Four Saints in Three Acts, George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess and Oscar Hammerstein's Carmen Jones. In the early...

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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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...son's projects; and Chick Austin, of the Wadsworth Athenaeum in Hartford, who mounted the premiere of Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thomson's "Four Saints in Three Acts" and then helped entice choreographer George Balanchine to come to America. On...

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Four Saints in Three Acts Four Saints in Three Acts is an opera by American composer Virgil Thomson with a libretto by Gertrude Stein. Written in 1927-8, it contains about twenty saints, and is in at least four acts. It was ground breaking...

In this article: Four Saints in Three Acts, Gertrude Stein, Ignatius of Loyola, Eva Jessye, Avila, Cellophane, Frederick Ashton, George Balanchine, and Florine Stettheimer

...Bradley has recorded Fiakermilli in Arabella with Dame Kiri te Kanawa, Jeffrey Tate conducting for Decca Records , Virgil Thomson's Four Saints in Three Acts for Nonesuch records and a live concert recording of Mozart concert works, with...

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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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...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 Stein. In 1934, Houseman looking to...

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...a society that sponsored premieres or early performances of works by composers such as Igor Stravinsky, Charles Ives, Erik Satie, and Virgil Thomson, as well as Vivaldi, Scarlatti, and Couperin (played on period instruments). The 1936...

In this article: Wadsworth Atheneum, Alexander Calder, Andrea Palladio, Pablo Picasso, Erik Satie, and Gertrude Stein