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When 'Cradle' rocked US theater.(Features)(Arts & Leisure)(Short Takes)
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It was "the most truly experimental effort ever undertaken in the American theater," according to Harold Clurman, a contemporary director and critic.
Among those who took part were theater luminaries John Houseman, Howard de Silva, Joseph Cotton, John Huston, and Arthur Miller; composer Virgil Thomson; and Orson Welles, barely out of his teens and already an accomplished actor-director.
From 1935 to 1939 the Federal Theater Project (FTP), a tiny corner of President Roosevelt's massive New Deal, produced hundreds of plays from classics to children's fare to innovative new ...
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Quotation: ; Words to the wise
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; "Musicians ... own music because music owns them." - Virgil Thomson
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A musical outing
Magazine article from: The Spectator
; VIRGIL THOMSON: COMPOSER ON THE AISLE by Anthony...composer. But no. Here is Lou's employer, Virgil Thomson, almost 90 and still formidable, standing...employer. For this is the 'outing' of Virgil Thomson, an event the composer did not contemplate...
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The Plow That Broke the Plains and The River.(BRIEFLY NOTED)(Brief article)(Video recording review)
Magazine article from: Notes
; ...directed by Pare Lorentz. Music by Virgil Thomson. [United States]: Naxos, 2007. 2...restored on this DVD. The scores by Virgil Thomson, whose original soundtracks were...repertoire and devotees of the music of Virgil Thomson.
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Gift to be simple
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...the birth, in Kansas City, of the inimitable Virgil Thomson actually fell on 25 November. Not that one...he brought forth his engaging autobiography, Virgil Thomson by Virgil Thomson; in 1970, a canny if erratic survey of American...
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Virgil Thomson: The Composer In Review; A Centennial Celebration
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...is everybody's property anyway. -- Virgil Thomson, 1948 These lines -- succinct, straightforward, plausible -- are typical of Virgil Thomson's music criticism, and his own compositions...Tommasini is due from W.W. Norton. Who was Virgil Thomson? He was a composer who took ...
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Fanfares and Grace Notes
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; SELECTED LETTERS OF VIRGIL THOMSON Edited by Tim Page and Vanessa...pp. $27.95 A DOZEN YEARS ago Virgil Thomson, then in his 80th year, was taken...continental aplomb has given Virgil Thomson a unique character, a sort of...
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POST-CLASSICAL ENSEMBLE, ANGEL GIL-ORD NEZ / Virgil Thomson: The Plow that Broke the Plains; The River (Naxos DVD)
Newspaper article from: Winnipeg Free Press
; CLASSICAL POST-CLASSICAL ENSEMBLE, ANGEL GIL-ORD NEZ Virgil Thomson: The Plow that Broke the Plains; The River (Naxos DVD) PARE...from 1936 and 1937 are elevated to classic stature with Virgil Thomson's masterly score, newly recorded to replace the boxy original...
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The Plow that Broke the Plains/The River
Magazine article from: Fanfare
; ...have heard suites of the music that Virgil Thomson wrote for Pare Lorentz's documentary...Arts, the American Film Institute, the Virgil Thomson Foundation, and the MARPAT Foundation...8-minute audio-only interview from 1979 ("Virgil Thomson on Virgil Thomson"), and the ...
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VIRGIL THOMSON: Film Music Suites: The Plow that Broke the Plains; Louisiana Story; Arcadian Songs and Dances; Power Among Men
Magazine article from: Musical Opinion
; VIRGIL THOMSON: Film Music Suites: The Plow that Broke the Plains; Louisiana Story...route into the music of the remarkable American composer and critic Virgil Thomson. His music is nicely crafted but lacks a genuinely original voice...
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Father of us all
Magazine article from: The Village Voice
; Virgil Thomson: Composer on the Aisle By Anthony...important than Anthony Tommasini's Virgil Thomson: Composer on the Aisle. Thomson was...declines further acquaintance with Mr. Virgil Thomson" Thomson felt he should get two-thirds...
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