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Thomson, Virgil was born on November 25, 1896 in Kansas City, Missouri, United States. Son of Quincy A. and May (Gaines) Thomson.
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Contents: Bennett Lerner: Senza Espressione Brendan Lemon: Study Piece Charles Fussell: In Meditation David Dubal: In Flight Dennis Davies: In a Hammock Dona Flor: Receiving Dr. Marcel Roche: Making Decision Glynn Boyd Harte: Reaching Louis Rispoli: In a Boat Malitte Matta: In Executive Suite Mark Beard: Never Alone Molly Davies: Terminations P. McWilliams: Firmly Spontaneous Phillip Ramey: Thinking Hard Power Boothe: With Pencil Rodney Lister: Music for Merry-G Vassilis Voglis: On the March. - Virgil Thomson - PNOCL - G. Schirmer, Inc. - 1987 - Piano Solo - Lenght 12.00 - Width 9.00
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An unprecedented collection of polemical and autobiographical writings by America’s greatest composer-critic. Following on the critically acclaimed 2014 edition of Virgil Thomson's collected newspaper music criticism, The Library of America and Pulitzer Prize–winning music critic Tim Page now present Thomson’s other literary and critical works, a body of writing that constitutes America’s musical declaration of independence from the European past. This volume opens with The State of Music (1939), the book that made Thomson’s name as a critic and won him his 14-year stint at the New York Herald Tribune. This no-holds-barred polemic, here presented in its revised edition of 1962, discusses the commissions, jobs, and other opportunities available to the American composer, a worker in a world of performance and broadcast institutions that, today as much as in Thomson’s time, are dominated by tin-eared, non-musical patrons of the arts who are shocked by the new and suspicious of native talent. Thomson’s autobiography, Virgil Thomson (1966), is more than just the story of the struggle of one such American composer, it is an intellectual, aesthetic, and personal chronicle of the twentieth century, from World War I–era Kansas City to Harvard in the age of straw boaters, from Paris in the Twenties and Thirties to Manhattan in the Forties and after. A classic American memoir, it is marked by a buoyant wit, a true gift for verbal portrait-making, and a cast of characters including Aaron Copland, Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, Paul Bowles, John Houseman, and Orson Welles. American Music Since 1910 (1971) is a series of incisive essays on the lives and works of Ives, Ruggles, Varèse, Copland, Cage, and others who helped define a national musical idiom. Music with Words (1989), Thomson’s final book, is a distillation of a subject he knew better than perhaps any other American composer: how to set English—especially American English—to music, in opera and art song. The volume is rounded out by a judicious selection of Thomson’s magazine journalism from 1957 to 1984—thirty-seven pieces, most of them previously uncollected, including many long-form review-essays written for The New York Review of Books.
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Revisit the Golden Age of classical music in America through the witty and adventurous reviews of our greatest critic-composer: For fourteen memorable years Virgil Thomson surveyed the worlds of opera and classical music as the chief music critic for the New York Herald Tribune. An accomplished composer who knew music from the inside, Thomson communicated its pleasures and complexities to a wide readership in a hugely entertaining, authoritative style, and his daily reviews and Sunday articles set a high-water mark in American cultural journalism. Thomson collected his newspaper columns in four volumes: The Musical Scene, The Art of Judging Music, Music Right and Left, and Music Reviewed. All are gathered here, together with a generous selection of Thomson’s uncollected writings. The result is a singular chronicle of a magical time when an unrivaled roster of great conductors (Koussevitzky, Toscanini, Beecham, Stokowski) and legendary performers (Horowitz, Rubinstein, Heifetz, Stern) presented new masters (Copland, Stravinsky, Britten, Bernstein) and re-introduced the classics to a rapt American audience.
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Contents: America's musical maturity.--American musical traits.--The Ives case.--Ruggles.--Varèse.--Aaron Copland.--Looking backward.--Cage and the collage of noises.--Let us now praise famous men.--The operas of Virgil Thomson, by V. F. Yellin.--Music in Latin America, by G. Chase.--106 American composers.
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1. The Seine at Night 2. Wheat Field at Noon 3. Sea Piece with Birds. - SCORE - Virgil Thomson - STSC - G. Schirmer, Inc. - 1990 - Study Score - Lenght 12.00 - Width 9.00
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Thomson, Virgil was born on November 25, 1896 in Kansas City, Missouri, United States. Son of Quincy A. and May (Gaines) Thomson.
AB, Harvard University, 1922. Studied in Paris with Nadia Boulanger. AFD (honorary)(honorary), Syracuse University, 1949.
AFD(honorary), Roosevelt University, 1968. AFD(honorary), University Missouri, 1971. DArts(honorary), Bard College, 1982.
Doctor of Letters(honorary), Rutgers University, 1956. Doctor of Letters(honorary), Emerson College, 1981. Doctor of Humane Letters(honorary), Park College, 1966.
Doctor of Humane Letters(honorary), Johns Hopkins University, 1978. Doctor of Humane Letters(honorary), University Missouri, 1980. Doctor of Humane Letters(honorary), Brooklyn College, 1981.
Doctor of Humane Letters(honorary), Manhattanville College, 1983. Doctor of Music(honorary), Fairfield University, 1968. Doctor of Music(honorary), New York University, 1971.
Doctor of Music(honorary), Columbia University, 1978. Doctor of Music(honorary), University Windsor, Ontario, 1981. Doctor of Music(honorary), Harvard University, 1982.
Doctor of Music(honorary), New England Conservatory, 1986. Degree(honorary), University Connecticut, 1985.
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Fellow American Academy Arts and Sciences. Member American Academy Arts and Letters, Académie des Beaux-Arts (Paris) (corresponding member 1986), Academia Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires.