Virgil Thomson (November 25, 1896 – September 30, 1989) was an American composer and critic. He was instrumental in the development of the "American Sound"...
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Lorentz independently while the music score was written by composer Virgil Thomson. The film was narrated by the American actor and baritone Thomas Hardie...
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study painting in France. He designed the scenario for two operas by Virgil Thomson: Four Saints in Three Acts (1934) and The Mother of Us All (1947). In...
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4 August 2003. Thomson, Virgil (1988). Selected letters of Virgil Thomson. New York: Summit Books. p. 54. Virgil Thomson Virgil Thomson. Library of America...
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(hardcover) Paperback reprint 2006. ISBN 978-0-8108-5728-5. Thomson, Virgil. 2002. Virgil Thomson: A Reader: Selected Writings, 1924–1984, edited by Richard...
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ISBN 2-235-01889-0. Virgil Thomson: Virgil Thomson (New York: Library of America & Penguin Random House, 2016), ISBN 978-1-59853-476-4, p. 135–136; Virgil Thomson and...
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books on the music of his colleague and mentor, the composer and critic Virgil Thomson. A classical music enthusiast since his youth, Tommasini attended both...
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Bob Dylan, Arthur C. Clarke, Patti Smith, Robert Mapplethorpe, and Virgil Thomson. The Chelsea received much commentary for the creative culture that...
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Cambridge University Press, 1992, p. 13. ISBN 0-521-31483-6. Virgil Thomson. Virgil Thomson: A Reader: Selected Writings, 1924–1984, edited by Richard Kostelanetz...
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1931. The entire concert (which also included work by Copland and Virgil Thomson) was panned by New York critics. (Bowles's first-known composition was...
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