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Virgil Thomson (November 25, 1896 – September 30, 1989) was an American composer and critic. He was instrumental in the development of the "American Sound" in classical music.
Virgil Thomson (1896-1989) was a many-faceted American composer of great originality and a music critic of singular brilliance. Utilizing a musical style marked by sharp wit and overt playfulness, he composed in almost every genre of music, producing a highly original body of work rooted in American speech rhythms and hymnbook harmony.
Apr 11, 2024 · Virgil Thomson (born November 25, 1896, Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.—died September 30, 1989, New York, New York) was an American composer, conductor, and music critic whose forward-looking ideas stimulated new lines of thought among contemporary musicians.
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The Mother of Us All is a two-act opera composed by Virgil Thomson to a libretto by Gertrude Stein. Thomson and Stein met in 1945 to begin the writing process, almost twenty years after their first collaborative project, the opera Four Saints in Three Acts . [1]
Virgil Thomson (1896-1989) was a many-faceted American composer of great originality and a music critic of singular brilliance.
Dec 4, 2014 · To understand how Thomson acquired a certain happy infamy at mid-century, you must first grasp the peculiarly prominent position that classical music occupied in this country circa 1940, when ...
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Pulitzer Prize–winning composer and music critic Virgil Thomson was born in Kansas City, Missouri, on November 25, 1896. His roots in America go back to the early period of colonization.
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