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Virgil Thomson: The Composer In Review; A Centennial Celebration
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 4/7/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...everybody's property anyway. -- Virgil Thomson, 1948 These lines -- succinct...plausible -- are typical of Virgil Thomson's music criticism, and his...from W.W. Norton. Who was Virgil Thomson? He was a composer who took 20th...
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Composer Virgil Thomson is named first McGregor Professor of the Humanities and Arts at Oakland University.
PR Newswire; 5/1/1987; 700+ words
; ...Renowned composer-critic Virgil Thomson has been named the first McGregor...at concerts and "Evenings with Virgil Thomson," as well as host a forum on...to the entire Detroit area. "Virgil Thomson's stature in American music...
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VIRGIL THOMSON'S MINIMALISM IN GOOD FORM.(Living Today)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 12/13/1989; 700+ words
; "Virgil Thomson: Symphony No. 3." James Bolle, New Hampshire Symphony. (Bay Cities): "Virgil Thomson: Symphony on a Hymn Tune, Symphony...Monadnock Festival Orchestra. (Albany): Virgil Thomson died recently, but that doesn't mean...
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Virgil Thomson, compositor en el pasillo.(TT: Virgil Thomson, Composer in the Hallway)
Magazine article from: Proceso; 2/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...inglesa sobre temas musicales: Virgil Thomson, compositor en el pasillo, tarea...reseados de manera suficiente. Virgil Thomson no slo fue compositor sino, asimismo...detalladamente a la condicin homosexual de Virgil Thomson, misma que el compositor se empe...
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Virgil Thomson, father of us all // Composer, critic leaves mark
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 12/3/1989; ; 700+ words
; Virgil Thomson died in New York at the close of September just a few weeks short of his...turned cable car conductor, but the family had genteel traditions. Young Virgil began piano lessons at 5. As a teenager, he was able to travel to Chicago...
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Virgil Thomson, 92, composer and critic
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 10/1/1989; 700+ words
; ...winning composer and music critic Virgil Thomson died at his home Saturday after...Born in Kansas City, Mo., Mr. Thomson learned to play the piano at age...Book Critics Circle Award for "A Virgil Thomson Reader." Mr. Thomson's latest...
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DOWN THROUGH THE YEARS WITH VIRGIL THOMSON
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 8/7/1988; ; 700+ words
; SELECTED LETTERS OF VIRGIL THOMSON Edited by Tim Page and Vanessa Weeks Page. Summit Books. 413 pp. $24.95. In his 91 years, Virgil Thomson has composed more than 25,000 letters, and, God bless him...
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Virgil Thomson: Composer on the Aisle
Magazine article from: Opera News; 10/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; Virgil Thomson: Composer on the Aisle by Anthony Tommasini...Tommasini has an innate understanding of Thomson's critical and compositional work...folk and exciting times that surround Thomson's life) with strong, vivid readability...
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Paradoja del tiburon. (crítica de las óperas del compositor Virgil Thomson; parte 2)(TT: Paradox of the shark) (TA: critique of composer Virgil Thomson's operas; part 2)
Magazine article from: Proceso; 2/8/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...juego de poder establecido entre Virgil Thomson y Walter Winchell, ste solo se...1892-1945). Al no asumirse, Virgil Thomson adquiri una homofobia devastadora...reproducir la frase ms memorable de Virgil Thomson, cuando ste escribe acerca de...
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Prepare for Saints: Gertrude Stein, Virgil Thomson, and the Mainstreaming of American Modernism.(Review)
Magazine article from: Artforum International; 6/22/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...chronicle of the making of the 1934 Virgil Thomson/Gertrude Stein opera, Four...show, goshdarnit (the composer Virgil Thomson); a bunch of unknown players...a buoyant, comic hero out of Virgil Thomson, a foxy, baby-faced figure...
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Virgil Thomson
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Virgil Thomson American composer, critic, and conductor Virgil Thomson (1896-1989) combined literary and...with simplicity, wit, and skill. Virgil Thomson was born in Kansas City, MO, on Nov...
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Thomson, Virgil
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers
THOMSON, Virgil Composer. Nationality: American...New York, 1951. Everbest Ever: Virgil Thomson's Correspondence with Bay Area Friends...Hoover, Kathleen, and John Cage, Virgil Thomson: His Life and Music, New York, 1959...
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Thomson, Virgil (Garnett)
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
Thomson, Virgil (Garnett) ( b Kansas City, 1896; d NY, 1989). Amer. composer, critic, and organist. Mus. child prodigy. Wrote criticism...
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Virgil
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Virgil ( Publius Vergilius Maro ) (70–...provided a model for descriptive poets like J. Thomson . In the 19th cent. came Wordsworth's...and Tennyson's avowal in ‘To Virgil’ of indebtedness beyond the obvious...
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Louisiana Story
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers
...Wolfgang, editor, Robert Flaherty, Berlin, 1964. Agel, Henri, Robert J. Flaherty, Paris, 1965. Thomson, Virgil, Virgil Thomson, New York, 1966; London, 1967. Griffith, Richard, The World of Robert Flaherty, New York, 1970...
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