See also: Thomson

Virgil Thomson (born the November 25th 1896 with Kansas City (Missouri) - died the September 30th 1989 with New York) is an American type-setter.

Biography

Thompson is very often associated with Aaron Copland. In the Thirties it composes for the theater and the cinema in close cooperation, for the booklets, with Gertrude Stein. In 1949, he is prize winner of the Prix Pulitzer of music thanks to his composition for the film Louisiana Story . At the end of its life, Thompson becomes a kind of mentor and paternal figure for the new generation of tonal type-setters among whom Ned Rorem, Paul Bowles and Leonard Bernstein, which forms a circle sharing the same musical and sexual inclinations.

Works

• Three Pictures for Orchestrated , 1947-1952.
• Five Songs from William Blake , 1951.
• Concerto for Flute, Strings, Harp, and Percussion: With Portrait off Roger Baker , 1954.
• Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestrated , 1950.
• Crossing Brooklyn Ferry , on poems of Walt Whitman, 1958, arranged in 1961.
• Mass , 1960, arranged in 1962.
• The Feast off Coils , according to the Pervigilium Veneris, 1964.
• Cantata one Poems off Edward Lear, 1973-1974.
• Eleven Portraits for Orchestrated , 1981-1982.

Symphonies

• Symphony one has Hymn Tune, 1928.
• Symphony No 2 in C Major, 1931, revised in 1941.
• Symphony No 3,1972.

Operas

• Furnace Saints in Three Acts , booklet of Gertrude Stein, 1928.
• The Mother off Custom All , booklet of Gertrude Stein, 1947.
• Lord Byron , booklet of Larson Jack, 1966-1968.

For the piano

• Nine Portraits for Piano , 1930-1969:
• # Mrs Dubost at it (1930)
• # Russell Hitchcock, Reading (1930)
• # Ettie Stettheimer (1935)
• # Helen Austin At Home and Abroad (1935)
• # has French Boy Ten off: Louis Lange (1938)
• # Pastoral: With Portrait off Tristan Tzara (1940)
• # Awake gold Asleep: Pierre Mabille (1940)
• # Prisoner off the Mind: Schuyler Watts (1942)
• # For Eugene Ormandy' S Birthday, 18 November 1969:
• # has Study in Stacked-Up Thirds (1958, rev. 1969)
• Nine Etudes for Piano , 1940-1951.

Chamber music

• String Four-bit byte No 1,1931, revised in 1957.
• String Four-bit byte No 2,1931, revised in 1957.
• Furnace Portraits , for violoncello and piano, arranged in 1942 by Luigi Silva:
• # Bugles and Birds (Pablo Picasso) (1940)
• # Tango Lullaby (Flavie Alvarez de Toledo) (1940)
• # In has Bird Cage (Lise Deharme) (1940)
• # Fanfare for France (max Kahn) (1940)

Ballets

• Filling Station , choreography of Lew Christensen, 1937.
• Parson Weems and the Cherry Tree , choreography of Erick Hawkins, 1975.

Film musics

• The Plow that Broke the Lime pits Continuation , arranged in 1936.
• The Louisiana Story Continuation , film of Robert Flaherty, 1948.

External bonds

• Site of the foundation Virgil Thomson
• Biography on the site of IRCAM

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