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...She is the centrepiece of Virgil Thomson and Gertrude Stein’s moving feminist paean to her and her crusade....
...Thomson, to mention but a few, all wildly different stylistically but still within the same tradition....
...Virgil Thomson once aptly described his score as “a memory book, a souvenir of all those sounds and kinds of tunes that were the music of rural America”....
...The most ambitious and ephemeral of her works was the set design for the opera Four Saints in Three Acts by Virgil Thomson and Gertrude Stein....
...The agenda spanned 15 splendid songs by Rorem plus related samples of composers who influenced him, privately and publicly: Francis Poulenc, Virgil Thomson, Theodore Chanler, Samuel Barber, Marc Blitzstein...
...Ian Thomson is author of ‘Primo Levi: A Life’ (Vintage)...
...Audi staged operas by Claude Vivier, Virgil Thomson, Michael Finnissy and John Casken, locked swords with Nicholas Snowman over the right to perform György Ligeti, and presented the music of Pierre Boulez...
...After a few pianistic flourishes by Virgil Thomson, dedicated to the memory of a departed board member, the focus fell on The Migration of Lost Souls by Narong Prangcharoen....
...Also contentious is Mr Thomson’s claim that Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose is Italy’s best-known literary export....
...Although it is not true to say that Einstein on the Beach sprang from nowhere – operas such as Virgil Thomson’s Four Saints in Three Acts in the 1920s and Nono’s Intolleranza 1960 had ventured into similar...
...He roared, soared, crooned, sighed and serenaded, invariably with crisp diction and poetic insight, through demanding works of such disparate composers as Ives, Stephen Foster, Copland, Virgil Thomson, Barber...
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...He engineered an introduction to composer and critic Virgil Thomson, who tutored him in music composition and helped him get a job as a critic at the New York Herald Tribune....
...Works by, among others, Virgil Thomson, Aaron Copland, Roy Harris and Lou Harrison bore him out, and two composers-in-residence, Stephen Scott and Curt Cacioppo, supplied newer music in similar vein....
...Mark Morris’s Drink to Me Only is a chain, brilliant in its linking, of dance that moves on and through and over and into Virgil Thomson’s piano studies, brilliantly played by Barbara Bilach....
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