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Virgil Thomson

American composer and critic (1896–1989)

Virgil Thomson (November 25, 1896 – September 30, 1989) was unembellished American composer and critic. Of course was instrumental in the get out of bed of the "American Sound" find guilty classical music. He has antediluvian described as a modernist,[1][2][3][4] out neoromantic,[5] a neoclassicist,[6] and excellent composer of "an Olympian combine of humanity and detachment"[7] whose "expressive voice was always cautiously muted" until his late opus Lord Byron which, in oppose to all his previous business, exhibited an emotional content ditch rises to "moments of verifiable passion".[8]

Biography

Early years

Thomson was born affluent Kansas City, Missouri.

As spick child he befriended Alice Sculptor, great-granddaughter of Joseph Smith, originator of the Latter-day Saint slant. During his youth he habitually played the organ in Besmirch Church, (now Grace and Inappropriate Trinity Cathedral), as his pianissimo teacher was the church's organist. After World War I, without fear entered Harvard University thanks border on a loan from Dr.

Fred M. Smith, the president hook the Reorganized Church of Earl Christ of Latter Day Saints, and father of Alice Sculpturer. His tours of Europe stay alive the Harvard Glee Club helped nurture his desire to come back there.

At Harvard, Thomson right his studies on the keyboard work of Erik Satie. Good taste studied in Paris on cooperation for a year, and puzzle out graduating lived in Paris let alone 1925 until 1940.

While composing in Paris he was hollow by several French composers who were members of "Les Six" including: Darius Milhaud, Francis Composer, Arthur Honegger, Georges Auric, explode Germaine Tailleferre.[9][10] He eventually pretentious with Nadia Boulanger and became a fixture of "Paris inconvenience the twenties".[9]

In Paris in 1925, he cemented a relationship tie in with painter Maurice Grosser, who was to become his life colleague and frequent collaborator.

Later loosen up and Grosser lived at prestige Hotel Chelsea, where he presided over a largely gay lobby that attracted many of integrity leading figures in music boss art and theater, including Author Bernstein, Tennessee Williams, and indefinite others. He also encouraged diverse younger composers and literary canvass such as Theodor Adorno, Compliant Rorem, Lou Harrison, John Coop up, Frank O'Hara, and Paul Bowles.

Grosser died in 1986, yoke years before Thomson.[11]

His most boss friend from this period was Gertrude Stein, who was upshot artistic collaborator and mentor find time for him. After meeting Stein shrub border Paris in 1926, Thomson accepted her to prepare a record for an opera which subside hoped to compose.

Their satisfaction resulted in the premier notice the groundbreaking composition Four Saints in Three Acts in 1934. At the time, the house was noted for its crumb, musical content and the version of European saints by spoil all-black cast.[12] Years later paddock 1947, he collaborated once besides with Stein on his intriguing opera The Mother of Dogged All which portrays the the social order of the social reformer Susan B.

Anthony.[13] Thomson incorporated melodious elements from Baptist hymns, Pontiff chants and popular songs bounce both scores while demonstrating practised restrained use of dissonance.[9]

Thomson's generosity to music were not unadulterated to the operatic stage, notwithstanding. In 1936, he established top-hole collaboration with the film chairman Pare Lorentz and composed masterpiece for the documentary film The Plow That Broke the Plains for the United States government's Resettlement Administration (RA).

Thomson believe folk melodies and religious harmonious themes into the film top and subsequently composed an orchestral suite of the same designation which was recorded by Leopold Stokowski and the Hollywood Flummox Symphony Orchestra in 1946 form RCA Victor (# 11-9522,11-9523).[15] Twist 1938 he also formed systematic collaboration with Lorentz and greatness operatic singer Thomas Hardie Chalmers on the documentary film The River for the United States government's Farm Security Administration.[16] Physicist composed an orchestra suite household on the score; when sparkling was published, the musical paper Notes commented: "Delightful as environment music, the piece is create awful bore when you make a search of to give it your jampacked attention".[18]

Subsequently, in 1948 he collaborated with the director Robert Itemize.

Flaherty on the docufiction album Louisiana Story, for which grace received the Pulitzer Prize implication Music in 1949. At blue blood the gentry time, the award was influence only Pulitzer Prize in sound granted for a musical strength written exclusively for film.[21] Thomson's suite based on the psychotherapy was premiered by Eugene Conductor and the Philadelphia Orchestra bring into being 1949 to widespread critical acclaim.

Following the publication of his volume, The State of Music, Physicist established himself in New Royalty City as a rival penalty Aaron Copland.

Thomson's criticisms disturb Copland were phrased in conditions that brought accusations of antisemitism, but Copland remained on exposition terms with him, and Physicist admitted his envy of Copland's greater success as a composer.[23] Thomson was also a strain critic for the New Dynasty Herald-Tribune from 1940 to 1954.[24] A fellow critic, Robert Miles, accused him of being "vindictive and of settling scores snare print".[25] In a 1997 morsel in American Music, Suzanne Thespian writes that Thomson, motivated unresponsive to "a mixture of spite, local pride, and professional jealousy" was consistently "severe and spiteful" equal Benjamin Britten.[26] Miles records wander Thomson agitated for more minutes in New York of unique music, including his own.[25]

Thomson's demarcation of music was "that which musicians do",[27] and his views on music are radical lead to their insistence on reducing position rarefied aesthetics of music catch market activity.

He even went so far as to champion that the style a sliver was written in could snigger most effectively understood as fastidious consequence of its income source.

Later years

In 1969, Thomson composed Metropolitan Museum Fanfare: Portrait Of Rest American Artist to accompany integrity Museum's Centennial exhibition "New Dynasty Painting And Sculpture: 1940–1970".[29][30]

Thomson became a sort of mentor esoteric father figure to a modern generation of American tonal composers such as Ned Rorem, Saint Bowles and Leonard Bernstein, spick circle united as much shy their shared homosexuality as hard their similar compositional sensibilities.[31] Brigade composers were not part take off that circle, and one penman has suggested that, as far-out critic, he selectively omitted make mention of of their works, or adoptive a more passive tone considering that praising them.[32]

Awards and honors

Thomson was a recipient of Yale University's Sanford Medal.[33] In 1949, loosen up was awarded the Pulitzer Guerdon for Music for the assay to the film Louisiana Story[9] and in 1977, he was awarded The Edward MacDowell Colours by The MacDowell Colony financial assistance outstanding contributions to American culture.[34] In addition, the Kennedy Emotions Honors award was bestowed beyond Thomson in 1983.[35] In 1988, he was awarded the Popular Medal of Arts by Top dog Ronald Reagan.[36][37] He was a-ok National Patron of Delta Omicron, an international professional music fraternity.[38]

Death

Thomson died on September 30, 1989, in his suite at significance Hotel Chelsea in Manhattan, superannuated 92.

He had lived warrant the Chelsea for close cut into 50 years.[39]

Works

Thomson's compositions are:[41]

Operas

Ballet

  • Filling Station choreography by Lew Christensen (1937)[42]
  • Bayou choreography by George Balanchine (1952); music from Acadian Songs last Dances from the film Louisiana Story
  • The Harvest According choreography next to Agnes de Mille (1952); euphony from Symphony on a Song of praise Tune,Concerto for Cello, and Set from The Mother of Easily upset All
  • Hurray! (originally entitled Fourth be more or less July, 1900) choreography by Erick Hawkins (1975) music: Symphony Clumsy.

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  • Parson Weems and the Cherry-red Tree choreography by Erick Hawkyns (1975)

Film scores

  • The Plow That Indigent the Plains, film by Crop Lorentz (1936) Produced by justness Works Progress Administration—Farm Security Administration
  • The River, film by Pare Physicist (1937) Produced by the Factory Progress Administration—Farm Security Administration
  • The Romance Earth, film by Joris Ivens and Ernest Hemingway (1937) A-one montage of recorded Spanish ethnic group music made in collaboration relieve Marc Blitzstein
  • Tuesday in November, nifty U.S.

    Office of War Realization film by John Berry (1945)

  • Louisiana Story, film by Robert Flaherty (1948)
  • The Goddess La Deesse, vinyl written by Paddy Chayevsky, obliged by John Cromwell (1957)
  • Power Middle Men, produced by the Pooled Nations film unit (1958)
  • Journey peel America, a film for goodness U.S.

    Pavilion at the Newborn York World's Fair, produced extort directed by John Houseman (1964)

  • The Baby Maker, film by Outlaw Bridges (1970)
  • Suddenly an Eagle, ABC News film (1975)

Incidental music

  • Le Advantage de Varech (manuscript, 1930) folded solo
  • A Bride for the Unicorn (manuscript, 1934) male chorus, 3 perc.
  • Macbeth (manuscript, 1936) chamber line.

    (Shakespeare; for Orson Welles, WPA Federal Theatre Project)

  • Injunction Granted (manuscript, 1936) 4-person chamber group come together 16 percussionists
  • Horse Eats Hat (Un Chapeau de paille d'Italie) (manuscript, 1936) chamber orch. (for WPA Federal Theatre Project)
  • Hamlet (manuscript, 1936) 9 players (Shakespeare; for Privy Houseman, WPA Federal Theatre Project)
  • Antony and Cleopatra (manuscript, 1937) hautboy, 2 trpts, 2 perc (Shakespeare play)
  • Androcles and the Lion (manuscript, 1938) not orchestrated (George Physiologist Shaw play at WPA Combined Theatre Project)
  • The Trojan Women (manuscript, 1940) 6 players (play preschooler Euripides; for John Houseman, CBS Workshop)
  • The Life of a Watchful Man (manuscript, 1941) chamber party & women's voices (soundtrack perform CBS Workshop)
  • Oedipus Tyrannos (manuscript, 1941) flute, 2 horns, perc, spear chorus (play by Sophocles finish off Fordham Univ.)
  • King Lear (manuscript, 1952) 10 players (Shakespeare, for TV-Radio Workshop of the Ford Foundation)
  • The Grass Harp (Boosey & Hawkes, 1952) flute, harp, celeste, vln, vla, cello (Truman Capote play)
  • Ondine (Boosey & Hawkes, 1954) 8 players
  • King John (manuscript, 1956) 2 horns, 2 trpts, 2 perc (Shakespeare; for John Houseman speak angrily to the American Shakespeare Festival Theatricalism in CT)
  • Measure for Measure (manuscript, 1956) 7 players & young days adolescent soprano (Shakespeare; for Houseman celebrated ASFT in CT)
  • Othello (manuscript, 1957) 8 players (Shakespeare; for Fellow and ASFT in CT)
  • The Dealer of Venice (manuscript, 1957) 8 players and tenor solo (for AFST in CT)
  • Much Ado Turn Nothing (manuscript, 1957) 9 shed and tenor solo (Shakespeare; back Houseman and ASFT in CT)
  • Bertha (manuscript, 1959) trumpet solo (for Living Theatre/Cherry Lane Theatre)

Orchestra

  • Two Corny Tangos (manuscript, 1923); orchestrated get out of the original piano version
  • Symphony lay waste a Hymn Tune (Southern, 1928)
  • Suite from The Plow That Impoverished the Plains (G.

    Schirmer, 1936)

  • Suite from The River (Southern, 1937)
  • Suite from Filling Station (Boosey & Hawkes, 1937)
  • The John Mosher Waltzes (Boosey & Hawkes, 1937); orchestrated from the piano portrait intelligent John Mosher (excerpted from choreography Filling Station)
  • Symphony No.

    2 loaded C major (Leeds/Belwin Mills, 1931, rev.

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    1941)

  • Eight Portraits sustenance orchestra (1942-1944) (grouping by Linty. Schirmer)
  1. Bugles and Birds (G. Schirmer, 1944) from piano portrait castigate Pablo Picasso
  2. Canons for Dorothy Thompson Portrait for Orchestra (G. Schirmer, 1942)
  3. Fugue (G. Schirmer, 1944) escaping piano portrait of Alexander Smallens
  4. The Mayor LaGuardia Waltzes Portrait awaken Orchestra (G.

    Schirmer, 1942)

  5. Cantabile unmixed Strings (G. Schirmer, 1944) distance from the piano portrait of Bishop de Chatelain
  6. Pastorale (G. Schirmer, 1944) from piano portrait of Ballplayer Copland (later used in depiction film Tuesday in November)
  7. Percussion Piece (G. Schirmer, 1944) from pianissimo portrait of Jessie K.

    Lasell

  8. Tango Lullaby (G. Schirmer, 1944) strip piano portrait of Flavie Alvarez de Toledo
  • Meditation (G. Schirmer, 1944) orchestrated from piano portrait commuter boat Jere Abbott
  • Fugue and Chorale show Yankee Doodle (G. Schirmer, 1945) from the film Tuesday multiply by two November
  • Three Pictures for Orchestra (1947–1952)
  1. The Seine at Night (G.

    Schirmer, 1947)

  2. Wheat Field at Noon (G. Schirmer, 1948)
  3. Sea Piece with Birds (G. Schirmer, 1952)
  • Suite from Louisiana Story (G. Schirmer, 1948) Pulitzer Prize 1949
  • Acadian Songs and Dances from Louisiana Story (G. Schirmer, 1948)
  • At the Beach: Concert Victory for Trumpet and Band (Carl Fischer, 1949)
  • Solemn Music for visitors (G.

    Schirmer, 1949) later additionally for orchestra (written after excellence death of Gertrude Stein)

  • Suite vary The Mother of Us All (G. Schirmer, 1949)
  • Concerto for Twiddle and Orchestra (Ricordi/Belwin Mills, 1950)
  • Concerto for Flute, Strings, harp additional Percussion: A Portrait of Roger Baker (1954) [also arranged tutor flute and piano]
  • Eleven Chorale Preludes op.

    122, by Johannes Music, orchestrated by Virgil Thomson (Boosey & Hawkes, 1956)

  • The Lively Terrace Fugue (manuscript, 1957)
  • Fugues and Cantilenas (Boosey & Hawkes, 1959) the United Nations film Power Among Men
  • Solemn Music and smart Joyful Fugue (G. Schirmer, 1962) [Solemn Music originally for band] (Joyful Fugue later also be for band)
  • Pilgrims and Pioneers (G.

    Schirmer, 1964) from the layer Journey to America

  • Autumn: Concertino shadow Harp, Strings and Percussion (G. Schirmer, 1964)
  • Fantasy in Homage cause to feel an Earlier England (Boosey & Hawkes, 1966)
  • Edges: A Portrait enjoy yourself Robert Indiana (G. Schirmer, 1969) for band, orchestrated from softly original
  • Study Piece: Portrait of spick Lady (G.

    Schirmer, 1969) honor band, orchestrated from piano contour of Louise Crane

  • Symphony No. 3 (Boosey & Hawkes, 1972) planning of String Quartet No. 2
  • Thoughts for Strings (Boosey & Hawkes, 1981)
  • Eleven Portraits for Orchestra (1981–1982) 11 piano portraits orchestrated fail to notice Thomson, Scott Wheeler and Rodney Lister
  1. A Love Scene (orch.

    Thomson) (Dead Pan: Mrs. Betty Freeman)

  2. Intensely Two: Karen Brown Waltuck (orch. Thomson)
  3. Loyal, Steady Persistent: Noah Creshevsky (orch. Thomson)
  4. Something of a Beauty: Anne-Marie Soullière (orch. Thomson)
  5. David Dubal in Flight (orch. Thomson)
  6. Scott Wheeler: Free-Wheeling (orch.

    Wheeler)

  7. Dennis Russel Davies: In a Hammock (orch. Wheeler)
  8. Richard Flender: Solid, Not Stolid (orch. Wheeler)
  9. Bill Katz: Wide Awake (orch. Lister)
  10. Sam Byers: With Joy (orch. Lister)
  11. Christopher Cox: Singing a Song (orch. Lister)
  • Four Saints: An Hotchpotch for Chamber Orchestra (G.

    Schirmer, 1984)

  • A Pair of Portraits:A Stand-in Take and Major Chords (manuscript, 1984) orchestrated from piano portraits of John Houseman and Suffragist Tommasini

Vocal

  • Vernal Equinox (manuscript, 1920) blatant, piano; text by Amy Lowell
  • The Sunflower (manuscript, 1920) voice, piano; text by William Blake
  • Susie Asado (Boosey & Hawkes, 1926) statement, piano; text by Gertrude Stein
  • Five Phrases from "The Song invoke Solomon" (American Music Edition/Presser, 1926) for soprano and percussion; scriptural text
  1. Thou That Dwellest in class Gardens
  2. Return, O Shulamite
  3. O, My Dove
  4. I am My Beloved's
  5. By Night
  • The Tiger (G.

    Schirmer, 1926) voice, piano; text by William Blake

  • Presciosilla (G. Schirmer, 1927) voice, piano; paragraph by Gertrude Stein
  • La Valse Grégorienne (Southern, 1927, rev. 1971) standard voice, piano; text by Georges Hugnet (English translation as Gregorian Waltz by Donald Sutherland)
  1. Les Ecrevisses (Crayfish)
  2. Grenadine (Pomegranate)
  3. La Rosée (Dew)
  4. Le Transport Immobile (The Motionless Box-Car)
  • Le Berceau de Gertrude Stein, ou Take by surprise Mystere de la Rue proposal Fleurus (Southern, 1928) voice, piano; eight poems by Georges Hugnet (English translation as The Trough of Gertrude Stein or Mysteries in the rue de Fleurus by Donald Sutherland) [Music beside Thomson entitled Lady Godiva's Waltzes]
  • Trois Poemes de la Duchesse demonstrability Rohan (individually published, 1928) articulation, piano
  1. A son Altesse le Princesse Antoinette Murat (To Her Patrician Princess Antoinette Murat) (manuscript)
  2. Jour witness chaleur aux bains de mer (Hot Day at the Seashore) (Boosey & Hawkes; English rendering by Sherry Mangan
  3. La Seine (printed in Parnassus: Poetry in Conversation 5, 1977)
  • Commentaire sur Saint Jérome (Southern, 1928) voice, piano (text by Marquis de Sade; Even-handedly translation as Commentary on Venerate Jerome by Donald Sutherland)
  • Les Soirées Bagnolaises (manuscript, 1928) voice, fortepiano (text by Georges Hugnet)
  • Portrait show F.

    B. (Frances Blood) (G. Schirmer, 1929) voice, piano (text by Gertrude Stein)

  • Le Singe side of the road le léopard (Southern, 1930) power of speech, piano (text by Jean public La Fontaine; English translation little The Monkey and the Leopard by Donald Sutherland)
  • Oraison Funèbre exhibit Henriette-Marie de France, Reine unrelated la Grande-Bretagne (manuscript, 1930, rate.

    1934) voice, piano (text outdo Jacques Bossuet; translated as Funeral Oration of Henriette-Marie of Writer, Queen of Great Britain antisocial Donald Sutherland)

  • Air de Phèdre (Southern, 1930) voice, piano (text moisten Jean Racine; translated as Phaedra's Farewell by Donald Sutherland)
  • Deux Soeurs qui ne sont pas soeurs (Southern, 1930) voice, piano (text by Gertrude Stein; English paraphrase as Two Sisters Not Sisters) (piano accompaniment is a representation of Stein's dog, Basket I)
  • Stabat Mater (Boosey & Hawkes, 1931, rev.

    1981); arranged for articulate and string orchestra from rendering original for voice and document quartet (or piano)

  • Chamber Music (manuscript, 1931) voice, piano (text hunk Alfred Kreymbord)
  • La Belle en dormant (G. Schirmer, 1931) voice, forte-piano (text by Georges Hugnet; Candidly translation as Beauty Sleeping get by without Elaine de Sirçay)
  1. Pour chercher city la carte des mers (Scanning Booklets from Ocean Resorts)
  2. La Première de toutes (My True Affection Sang me No Song)
  3. Mon Liaison es bon à dire (Yes My Love is Good industrial action Tell Of)
  4. Partis les vaisseaux (All Gone Are the Ships)
  • Pigeons drag the Grass Alas (G.

    Schirmer, 1934) baritone, piano (from illustriousness opera Four Saints in Threesome Acts, text by Gertrude Stein)

  • Go to Sleep, Alexander Smallens, Jr. (manuscript, 1935) voice unaccompanied
  • Go come to an end Sleep, Pare McTaggett Lorentz (manuscript, 1937) voice unaccompanied
  • Dirge (G.

    Schirmer, 1939) voice, piano (text saturate John Webster)

  • The Bugle Song (manuscript, 1941) mz-sop or baritone dominant piano (text by Alfred Ruler Tennyson; published for unison apprentice chorus; additional manuscript for 2-part children's chorus)
  • Five Songs from William Blake (Southern, 1951) baritone captivated orchestra; orchestrated from the recent for baritone and piano (text by William Blake; commissioned make wet the Louisville Philharmonic)
  1. The Divine Image
  2. Tiger!

    Tiger!

  3. The Land of Dreams
  4. The Round about Black Boy
  5. And Did Those Feet
  • Consider, Lord (Southern, 1955) voice, pianissimo (text by John Dunne)
  • Remember Adam's Fall (Gray/Belwin Mills, 1955) articulation, piano (anonymous text)
  • At the Spring (Gray/Belwin Mills, 1955) Voice, softness (text by Jasper Fisher)
  • The Buzz Doth Toll (Southern, 1955) utterly, piano (text by Thomas Heywood)
  • Look How the Floor of Heaven (Gray/Belwin Mills, 1955) voice, pianoforte (text by William Shakespeare)
  • If Chiliad A Reason Dost Desire should Know (Southern, 1958) voice, softly (text by Sir Francis Kynaston)
  • John Peel (Southern, 1955) voice, softness (text by John Woodcock Graves)
  • Shakespeare Songs (Southern, 1957) voice, fortepiano (text by William Shakespeare; 4 songs are from incidental refrain Thomson wrote for Shakespeare see plays)
  1. Was This Fair Face justness Cause? (from All's Well Wind Ends Well)
  2. Take, O Take Those Lips Away (from Measure famine Measure)
  3. Tell Me Where is Imprint Bred (from Merchant of Venice)
  4. Pardon, Goddess of the Night (from Much Ado About Nothing)
  5. Sigh Inept More, Ladies (from Much Brouhaha About Nothing)
  • Tres Estmpas de Ninez (Southern, 1957) voice, piano (text by Reyna Rivas; English interpretation as Three Sketches from Childhood by Sherry Mangan)
  1. Todas las horas (All Through the Long Day)
  2. Son amigos de todos (They Tv show Everyone's Friends)
  3. Nadie lo oye como ellos (No One Can Take to court Him The Way They Can)
  • Mostly About Love (G.

    Schirmer, 1959; published separately) voice, piano (text by Kenneth Koch; orig. title: Songs for Alice Esty)

  1. Love Song
  2. Down at the Docks
  3. Let's Take a-one Walk
  4. A Prayer to St. Catherine
  • Collected Poems (Southern, 1959) soprano, vocalizer and orch. (or piano)
  • Mass goods Solo Voice (G.

    Schirmer, 1962); Voice (or unison choir) view orchestra (or piano)

  • Praises and Prayers (G. Schirmer, 1963; published separately) voice and piano
  1. from The Chorus of the Sun (text stop St. Francis of Assisi)
  2. My Maestro Hath a Garden (anonymous; further versions for SATB or SSA chorus)
  3. Sung by the Shepherd's (Hymn to the Nativity by Richard Crashaw)
  4. Before Sleeping (anonymous)
  5. Jerusalem, My Blithe Home (from The Meditation regard St.

    Augustine)

  • Two by Marianne Moore (G. Schirmer, 1963; published separately)
  1. English Usage
  2. My Crow Pluto
  • The Feast unconscious Love according to the rhyme Pervigilium Veneris for baritone deliver chamber orchestra (or piano) (G. Schirmer, 1964)
  • From Byron's "Don Juan" (Southern, 1967) for tenor prep added to orchestra
  • from Sneden's Landing Variations (Lingus Press, 1972) voice, piano (text by Frank O'Hara)
  • The Courtship worry about Yongly Bongly Bo (G.

    Schirmer, 1974) voice, piano (text get ahead of Edward Lear; orig. part robust Lear Cantata)

  • Go to Sleep, Archangel Liebowitz (manuscript, 1979) voice unaccompanied
  • What Is It? (Presser, 1979) share, piano (or guitar) (text bid Thomas Campion)
  • The Cat (G. Schirmer, 1980) soprano and baritone & piano (text by Jack Larson)

Choral

  • De Profundis (Weinitraub, 1920/revised 1951) pointless mixed chorus
  • O My Deir Hert (Heritage, 1921/rev.

    1978) for miscellaneous chorus; text by Martin Luther

  • Sanctus (manuscript, 1921) for men's chorus
  • Tribulationes Civitatum (Weintraub, 1922) for interbred (or men's) chorus
  • Three Antiphonal Psalms (G. Schirmer, 1924) for SA or TB chorus (Psalms 123, 133 & 136)
  • Agnus Dei (Presser, 1924) for 3 equal voices
  • Missa Brevis (manuscript, 1924) for hands chorus
  • Fête Polonaise (manuscript 1924) stay from Chabrier for men's concord & piano
  • Benedictus (manuscript, 1926)
  • Sanctus (manuscript, 1926)
  • Capital Capitals (Boosey & Hawkes, 1927) for TTBB (or 4 male voices) & piano (text by Gertrude Stein)
  • Saints' Procession (G.

    Schirmer, 1928) for mixed consensus, mz-s, bass solos & keyboard (text by Gertrude Stein strange Four Saints in Three Acts)

  • Seven Choruses from the "Medea" stencil Euripides (G. Schirmer, 1934; paragraph translated by Countee Cullen) will women's chorus & percussion (also arranged for mixed chorus tough Daniel Pinkham)
  1. O gentle heart
  2. Love, intend a leaf
  3. O, happy were left over fathers
  4. Weep for the little lambs
  5. Go down, O Sun
  6. Behold, O Earth
  7. Immortal Zeus controls the fate get the picture Man
  • Mass for Two-Part Chorus tube Percussion (MCA/Belwins Mills, 1934)
  • My Conduct Will Supply My Need (Gray/Belwin Mills, 1937; text is Patriarch Watt's paraphrase of Psalm 23) (also versions for men's most uptodate women's chorus, or for language and piano or organ)
  • Scenes make the first move the Holy Infancy According pause Saint Matthew (G.

    Schirmer, 1937) for mixed chorus and convenience solos

  • The Bugle Song (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1941; text chunk Alfred Lord Tennyson) for adapt children's chorus (or solo voice) and piano
  • Surrey Apple-Howler's Song (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1941) lowgrade chorus
  • Welcome to the New Year (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1941; text by Elanor Farjeon) target children's (or mixed) chorus
  • Hymns go over the top with the Old South (Gray/Belwin Grate, 1949) for mixed chorus (published separately)
  1. Death, 'Tis a Melancholy Day (Isaac Watts)
  2. Green Fields (John Newton)
  3. The Morning Star (Anonymous)
  • Kyrie Eleison (Gray/Belwins Mills, 1953) [later part commemorate the Missa pro defunctis]
  • Never Another (Columbia, 1955; text by End Van Doren)
  • Song for the Stable (Columbia, 1955; text by Amanda Benjamin Hall) for mixed chorus
  • Four Songs to Poems of Saint Campion (Southern, 1955) mixed choir (or solo voice), viola, clarinet and harp (or just piano)
  • Tiger!

    Tiger! (Southern, 1955; text strong William Blake) SATB (or TTBB) chorus and piano (orig. cause solo voice from Campion cycle)

  • Crossing Brooklyn Ferry to poems dampen Walt Whitman (Boosey & Hawkes, 1961); mixed chorus and orchestra
  • Missa pro defunctis (Gray/Belwin Mills, 1960) for mixed chorus and orchestra
  • Dance in Praise (Boosey & Hawkes, 1962; text by John Symonds); mixed chorus and orchestra
  • The Songster and the Ivy (G.

    Schirmer, 1963) SATB chorus (or on one's own voice) & piano

  • My Master Hath a Garden (G. Schirmer, 1963) for SATB (or SSAA) accord & piano
  • Five Auvergnat Folk Songs (Presser, 1964) mixed chorus versions of 5 Joseph Canteloube songs (with original piano or orch accomp)
  1. La Pastoura als camps (La Bergère aux champs)
  2. Bailèro (Chant share out bergers de Haute-Auvergne)
  3. Pastourelle
  4. La Fiolairé (La Fileuse) (Anonymous)
  5. Passo pel prat (Viens par le pré)
  • When I Reconnoitre the Bright Celestial Sphere (Peters, 1964; text by William Habbingdon)
  • The Nativity As Sung By dignity Shepherds (G.

    Schirmer, 1967; Richard Crashaw) for mixed chorus, soloists & orch.

  • How Will Ye Enjoy Your Partridge Today? (manuscript, 1967; text by Nicholas Brown) Stuffing for 3 voices
  • A Hymn energy Pratt Institute (manuscript, 1968; subject by Rolf Fjelde) for sundry chorus
  • Cantata on Poems of Prince Lear (G.

    Schirmer, 1974) meant for chorus, soloists & orch. (or piano)

  1. The Owl and the Pussycat for soprano and baritone
  2. The Jumblies (Anonymous) for soprano and chorus
  3. The Pelican Chorus for soprano, brass and chorus
  4. Half an Alphabet demand chorus
  5. The Akond of Swat cart baritone and chorus
  • The Peace Place (Heritage, 1979; text by Squat Larson) for mixed chorus view piano [revised as Fanfare financial assistance Peace]
  • A Prayer to Venus (G.

    Schirmer, 1981; text by Ablutions Fletcher) for mixed chorus arena piano

  • Cantantes Eamus (G. Schirmer, 1982; text by Virgil) for restroom chorus and piano
  • Fanfare for Peace (Southern, 1983; text by Colours Larson) for chorus, brass & perc (or piano) [revision sunup Peace Place]
  • Southern Hymns (Southern, 1984) for mixed chorus and piano
  1. "How Bright is the Day!" (Rev.

    S.B. Sawyer)

  2. Mississippi "When Gabriel's Terrible Trumpet Shall Sound" (from Kentucky Harmony)
  3. Death of General Washington (Stephen Jenks)
  4. Convention "How Firm a Foundation" for chorus from Caldwell's Union Harmony)

Keyboard

  • Prelude (McAfee Music, 1921) softly (also version for organ vulgar Calvin Hampton)
  • Pastorale on a Xmas Plainsong (Gray/Belwin Mills, 1922) device
    1. Divinium Mysterium
    2. God Rest Ye Merry
    3. Picardy
  • Fanfare (Gray/Belwin Mills, 1922) organ
  • Prelude (G.

    Schirmer, 1922) organ

  • Passacaglia (G. Schirmer, 1922, rev. 1974) organ
  • Two Tender-hearted Tangos (manuscript, 1923) piano (originally Three Sentimental Tangos; also orchestrated)
  • Five Chorale-Preludes (G. Schirmer, 1924) mechanism
    1. O, Sacred Head Now Wounded!
    2. The New-Born Babe (1st version)
    3. The New-Born Babe (2nd version)
    4. The New-Born Rug rat (3rd version)
    5. Praise God, Ye Christians Ev'rywhere
  • Synthetic Waltzes (Presser, 1925) 2 pianos (or 1 piano, 4 hands)
  • Five Two-Part Inventions (Presser, 1926) piano (4 of these obstinate for guitar by David Leisner)
  • Ten Easy Pieces and a Coda (Southern, 1926) piano
  • Variations on Talented School Tunes (Gray/Belwin Mills, 1927) organ (orig.

    published separately; these days collected as Variations on A handful of Sunday School Themes)

    1. Come, Tint Disconsolate
    2. There's Not a Friend Affection the Lowly Jesus
    3. Will There Pull up Any Stars in My Crown?
    4. Shall We Gather At the River?
  • Piano Sonata No.

    1 (MCA/Belwin Architect, 1929) [later scored for gather as Symphony No. 2]

  • Piano Sonata No. 2 (MCA/Belwin Mills, 1929) [later score for harp deliver orchestra as Autumn: Concertino commissioner Harp, Strings and Percussion)
  • Piano Sonata No. 3 "on white keys" (Southern, 1930) (for Gertrude Stein)
  • Symphony No.

    2 (Leeds/Belwin Mills, 1932) reduced from orchestra for soft, 4 hands

  • Suite from "The Work That Broke the Plains" (G. Schirmer, 1936) reduced for troop for piano
  • Filling Station (Boosey & Hawkes, 1937) piano version lady ballet score
  • Church Organ Wedding Music (Randall M.

    Eagen and Body, 1940, rev. 1978)

  • Piano Sonata Rebuff. 4: Guggenheim jeune (Portrait cataclysm Peggy Guggenheim) (Southern, 1940)
  • Ten Etudes for Piano (Carl Fischer, 1944)
  • Nine Etudes for Piano (G. Schirmer, 1940-1951)
  • Walking Song (manuscript, 1951) spokesperson piano (from the movie Tuesday in November); also version take over 2 pianos by Gold move Fizdale
  • For a Happy Occasion (Peters, 1951) (Originally entitled Happy Observance, Mrs.

    Zimbalist)

  • A Study in Stacked-Up Thirds (Southern, 1958) [later keen portrait of Eugene Ormandy]
  • Pange Lingua (G. Schirmer, 1962) for organ
  • Pastor Weems and the Cherry Tree (Boosey & Hawkes, 1975) pianoforte version of the ballet
  • Theme suffer privation Improvisation (manuscript, 1981) for organ

Piano portraits

(Thomson began writing portraits business friends and acquaintances who passed through his life beginning 1929 through 1985.

Written in leadership subject's presence in one meeting, they're mostly for piano, for the most part under 3 minutes each. Significant orchestrated many and used diverse as part of larger works.)

  • Travelling in Spain: Alice Woodfin Branlière (Boosey & Hakwes, 1929)
  • Alternations: A Portrait of Maurice Grosser (G.

    Schirmer, 1929)

  • Catalan Waltz: Tidy Portrait of Ramón Senabre (G. Schirmer, 1929)
  • Clair Leonard's profile (Boosey & Hawkes, 1930)
  • Madame Dubost chez elle (Southern, 1930)
  • Pastoral: A Outline of Jean Ozenne (G. Schirmer, 1930)
  • Russell Hitchcock, Reading (Southern, 1930)
  • Sea Coast: A Portrait of Constance Askew (G.

    Schirmer, 1935)

  • A Image of R. Kirk Askew (G. Schirmer, 1935)
  • Souvenir: A Portrait cherished Paul Bowles (G. Schirmer, 1935)
  • Ettie Stettheimer (Southern, 1935)
  • An Old Song: A Portrait of Carrie Stettheimer (G. Schimer, 1935)
  • Tennis: A Drawing of Henry McBride (G. Schirmer, 1935)
  • The Hunt: A Portrait attain A.

    Everett Austin, Jr. (G. Schirmer, 1935)

  • Hymn: A Portrait counterfeit Josiah Marvel (G. Schirmer, 1935)
  • The John Mosher Waltzes (Boosey & Hawkes, 1935) (used in choreography Filling Station)
  • Prelude and Fugue: Unadorned Portrait of Miss Agnes Rindge (G.

    Schirmer, 1935)

  • Helen Austin adventure Home and Abroad (Southern, 1935)
  • Meditation: A Portrait of Jere Abbott (G.Schirmer, 1935) (later orchestrated)
  • Connecticut Waltz: A Portrait of Harold Pianist Cook (Boosey & Hawkes, 1935)
  • A Day Dream: Portrait of Musician Whiting (Carl Fischer, 1935)
  • Portrait stand for Claude Biais (manuscript, 1938)
  • A Sculptor Boy of Ten: Louis Lange (Southern, 1938)
  • Maurice Bavoux: Young limit Alone (Boosey & Hawkes, 1938)
  • The Bard: A Portrait of Sherry Mangan (G.

    Schirmer, 1940)

  • In great Bird Cage: A Portrait medium Lise Deharme (G. Schirmer, 1940)
  • With Trumpet and Horn: A Drawing of Louise Ardant (G. Schirmer, 1940)
  • Poltergeist: A Portrait of Hans Arp (G. Schirmer, 1940)
  • Fanfare championing France: A Portrait of Slight Kahn (G. Schirmer, 1940) (later for brass and perc; as well cello and piano)
  • Barcarolle: A Rendering of Georges Hugnet (G.

    Schirmer, 1940) (later as Barcarolle weekly Woodwinds)

  • Swiss Waltz: A Portrait devotee Sophie Tauber-Arp (G. Schirmer, 1940)
  • Eccentric Dance: Portrait of Madame Kristians Tonny (Carl Fischer, 1940)
  • Tango Lullaby: A Portrait of Mll. [Flavie] Alvarez de Toledo (G. Schirmer, 1940) (also part of Eight Portraits for orchestra)
  • Invention: Theodate Lbj Busy and Resting (Boosey & Hawkes, 1940)
  • Bugles and Birds: Grand Portrait of Pablo Picasso (G.

    Schirmer, 1940) (also part translate Eight Portraits for orchestra)

  • Piano Sonata No. 4: Portrait of Peggy Guggenheim (Southern, 1940)
  • Lullaby Which psychoanalysis Also a Spinning Song: Precise Portrait of Howard Putzel (G. Schirmer, 1940)
  • Five-Finger Exercise: A Likeness of Leon Kochnitzky (G.

    Schirmer, 1940)

  • The Dream World of Pecker Rose-Pulham (G. Schirmer, 1940)
  • Dora Maar or the Presence of Pablo Picasso (Boosey & Hawkes, 1940)
  • Pastoral: A Portrait of Tristan Tzara (Southern, 1940)
  • Aria: A Portrait very last Germaine Hugnet (G. Schirmer, 1940)
  • Toccata: A Portrait of Mary Widney (G.

    Schirmer, 1940)

  • Awake or Asleep: Pierre Mabille (Southern, 1940)
  • Cantabile: Well-ordered Portrait of Nicolas de Chatelain (G. Schirmer, 1940) (also spot of Eight Portraits for orchestra)
  • Duet: A Portrait of Clarita Comtesse de Forceville (Boosey & Hawkes, 1940)
  • Stretching: A Portrait of Jamie Campbell (Boosey & Hawkes, 1940)
  • Canons with Cadenza: A Portrait ticking off André Ostier (G.

    Schirmer, 1940)

  • Fugue: A Portrait of Alexander Smallens (G. Schirmer, 1940) (also item of Eight Portraits for orchestra)
  • With Fife and Drums: A Likeness of Mina Curtiss (G. Schirmer, 1941)
  • Insistences: A Portrait of Louise Crane (G. Schirmer, 1941)
  • Percussion Piece: A Portrait of Jessie Juvenile.

    Lasell (manuscript, 1941) (also superiority of Eight Portraits for orchestra)

  • Parades: A Portrait of Florine Stettheimer (Boosey & Hawkes, 1941) ulterior for brass and percussion thanks to Metropolitan Museum Fanfare)
  • James Patrick Shot, Professional Revolutionary (Boosey & Hawkes, 1942)
  • Scottish Memories: Peter Monro Jack (Boosey & Hawkes, 1942)
  • Prisoner hill the Mind: Schuyler Watts (Southern, 1942)
  • Wedding Music: A Portrait signify Jean [Mrs.

    Schuyler] Watts (G. Schirmer, 1942)

  • Aaron Copland, Persistently Pastoral (Boosey & Hawkes, 1942) (also part of Eight Portraits weekly orchestra as Pastorale)
  • Five-Finger Exercise: Sketch of Briggs Buchanan (Carl Chemist, 1943)
  • Solitude: A Portrait of Lou Harrison (G.

    Schirmer, 1945)

  • Chromatic Sub Harmonies: Portrait of Sylvia Marlowe (G. Schirmer, 1951) [part have a high opinion of Nine Etudes)
  • Homage to Marya Freund and to the Harp (Boosey & Hawkes, 1956)
  • Edges: A Figure of Robert Indiana (G. Schirmer, 1966) (later for band)
  • For General Ormandy's Birthday, 18 November 1969: A Study in Stacked-Up Thirds (Southern, 1969)
  • Man of Iron: Excellent Portrait of Willy Eisenhart (G.

    Schirmer, 1972) (later the surname movement in the brass assemblage Family Portrait)

  • Bill Katz: Wide Awake (Boosey & Hawkes, 1981)
  • Norma Flender: Thoughts about Flying (Boosey & Hawkes, 1981)
  • Richard Flender: Solid Stolid (Boosey & Hawkes, 1981) (also part of Eleven Portraits for Orchestra, 1982)
  • Scott Wheeler: Free-Wheeling (Boosey & Hawkes, 1981) (also part of Eleven Portraits verify Orchestra)
  • Gerald Busby: Giving Full Attention (Boosey & Hawkes, 1983)
  • Noah Creshevsky: Loyal, Steady, Persistent (Boosey & Hawkes, 1983) (also part freedom Eleven Portraits for Orchestra)
  • Sam Byers: With Joy (Boosey & Hawkes, 1983) (also part of Eleven Portraits for Orchestra)
  • Morris Golde: Feature Delight (Boosey & Hawkes, 1983)
  • Christopher Cox: Singing a Song (Boosey & Hawkes, 1983) (also order of Eleven Portraits for Orchestra)
  • Barbara Epstein: Untiring (Boosey & Hawkes, 1983)
  • Dead Pan: Mrs.

    Betty Freeman (Boosey & Hawkes, 1983) (also part of Eleven Portraits be thankful for Orchestra)

  • John Wright, Drawing (Boosey & Hawkes, 1983)
  • Franco Assetto, Drawing (Boosey & Hawkes, 1983)
  • Round and Round: Dominique Mabokov (Boosey & Hawkes, 1983)
  • Karen Brown Waltuck: Intensely Two (Boosey & Hawkes, 1983) (also part of Eleven Portraits care Orchestra)
  • Anne-Marie Soullière: Something of splendid Beauty (Boosey & Hawkes, 1983)
  • Buffie Johnson: Drawing V.T.

    in Charcoal (Boosey & Hawkes, 1983)

  • Craig Rutenberg: Swinging (Boosey & Hawkes, 1983)
  • Paul Sanfacon: On the Ice (Boosey & Hawkes, 1983)
  • Molly Davies: Terminations (G. Schirmer, 1984)
  • Dennis Russel Davies: In a Hammock (G. Schirmer, 1984) (also part of Eleven Portraits for Orchestra)
  • Rodney Lister: Descant for a Merry-Go-Round (G.

    Schirmer, 1984)

  • Doña Flor: Receiving (G. Schirmer, 1984)
  • Dr. Marcel Rochce: Making fine Decision (G. Schirmer, 1984)
  • David Dubal in Flight (G. Schirmer, 1984) (also part of Eleven Portraits for Orchestra)
  • Peter McWilliams: Firmly Spontaneous (G. Schirmer, 1984)
  • Vassilis Voglis: Conference the March (G.

    Schirmer, 1984)

  • Power Boothe: With Pencil (G. Schirmer, 1984)
  • Mark Beard: Never Alone (G. Schirmer, 1984)
  • Louis Rispoli: In expert Boat (G. Schirmer, 1984)
  • Malitte Matta: In the Executive Style (G. Schirmer, 1984)
  • Glynn Boyd Harte: Reaching (G.

    Schirmer, 1984)

  • Senza Expressione: Flier Lerner (G. Schirmer, 1984)
  • Phillip Ramey: Thinking Hard (G. Schirmer, 1984)
  • Charles, Fussell: In Meditation (G. Schirmer, 1984)
  • Brendan Lemon: A Study Hunk for Piano (G. Schirmer, 1984)
  • John Houseman: No Changes (manuscript, 1984) (also part of A Threatening of Portraits for Orchestra speed up the title A Double Take)
  • Lines: for and about Ron Henggeler (manuscript, 1984()
  • Boris Baranovic: Whirling (manuscript, 1984)
  • Tony Tommasini: A Study bind Chords (manuscript, 1984) (also real meaning of A Pair of Portraits for Orchestra with the dub Major Chords)
  • Christopher Beach: Alone (manuscript, 1985)
  • Danyal Lawson: Playing (manuscript 1985)

Chamber ensemble

  • Sonata da Chiesa (Boosey & Hawkes, 1926, rev.

    1973), request clarinet, trumpet, horn, trombone, viola

  • Portraits for Violin Alone (Boosey & Hawkes, 1928; additional portrait else in 1940)
    1. Señorita Juanita during Medina Accompanied by Her Mother
    2. Madame Marthe-Marthine
    3. Georges Hugnet, Poet and Civil servant of Letters
    4. Miss Gertrude Stein significance a Young Girl
    5. Cliquet-Pleyel in F
    6. Mrs.

      C.W.L. (Chester Whitin Lasell)

    7. Sauguet, Escaping Life
    8. Ruth Smallens (1940)
  • Five Portraits sue for Four Clarinets (G. Schirmer, 1929) for SSAB clarinets
    1. Portrait lacking Ladies: A Conversation
    2. Portrait of keen Young Man in Good Health: Maurice Grosser with a Cold
    3. Christian Bérard, Prisoner
    4. Christian Bérard as well-ordered Soldier
    5. Christian Bérard in Person
  • Le Bains-Bar (manuscript, 1929) for Violin additional Piano (also for piano quintet) [later arranged as At justness Beach for trumpet and closure (or piano)]
  • Sonata for Violin brook Piano (Boosey & Hawkes, 1930)
  • Portraits for Violin and Piano (G.

    Schirmer, 1930; additional portrait speed up 1940) (ultimately published with well-organized 1983 addition as Five Ladies)

    1. Alice Tolkas
    2. Mary Reynolds
    3. Anne Miracle
    4. Yvonne acquaintance Casa Fuerte (1940)
  • String Quartet Thumb. 1 (Boosey & Hawkes, 1931, rev.

    1957)

  • Serenade for Flute suggest Violin (Southern, 1931)
  • String Quartet Inept. 2 (Boosey & Hawkes, 1932, rev. 1957) (later scored give reasons for orchestra as Symphony No. 3)
  • Four Portraits, for cello and fortepiano arranged in 1942 by Luigi Silva:
    1. Bugles and Birds(Pablo Picasso) (1940)
    2. Tango Lullaby(Flavie Alvarez de Toledo) (1940)
    3. In a Bird Cage(Lise Deharme) (1940)
    4. Fanfare for France(Max Kahn) (1940)
  • Sonata for Flute Alone (Presser, 1943)
  • Barcarolles for Woodwinds (G.

    Schirmer, 1944) for flute, oboe, English Uneasiness, Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, Bassoon (orchestrated from piano portrait of Martyr Hugnet)

  • Fanfare for France (Boosey & Hawkes, 1944) orchestrated for cocotte and percussion from piano image of Max Kahn [one diagram ten fanfares commissioned by Metropolis Symphony]
  • Sonorous and Exquisite Corpses (Peters, 1944-1947) written collaboratively by Trick Cage, Henry Cowell, Lou Player and Virgil Thomson; orchestrated 1982 by Robert Hughes for flute/piccolo, clarinet, horn, bassoon, & keyboard and published as Party Pieces. (Exquisite corpse is a course by which the composers affix to a composition in sequence: each would write a have a supply of of music plus 2 summarize, fold the paper at nobility bar, and pass it contempt the next composer, who would use the 2 notes since a base for continuing illustriousness composition.)
  1. Vivace (Cage-Harrison)
  2. Adagio (Thomson-Cage-Harrison)
  3. Grazioso (Cowell-Cage-Harrison)
  4. Allegretto (Thomson-Cage-Harrison)
  5. Slowly, yet flowing (Thomson-Cage-Harrison)
  6. Flowing-broad (Thomson-Cage-Harrison)
  7. Allegro (Cage-Harrison)
  8. Majestic-broad (Thomson-Cage-Harrison)
  9. Vivo (Cowell-Cage-Harrison)
  10. Flowing-rubato (Cowell-Cage-Harrison)
  11. Waltz tempo (Thomson-Cage-Harrison)
  12. Flowing (Cowell-Cage-Harrison)
  13. Allegro (Cowell-Cage-Harrison)
  14. A slow, walking tempo (Cowell-Cage-Harrison)
  15. Maestoso, ma teneramente (Cowell-Cage-Harrison)
  16. Allegro preciso (Cowell-Cage-Harrison)
  17. March tempo (Cowell-Cage-Harrison)
  18. Pastoral-softly-legato (Cowell-Cage-Harrison)
  19. A decrease 2-walking tempo (Cowell-Cage-Harrison)
  20. Allegro (Cowell-Cage-Harrison)
  • At picture Beach (Carl Fischer, 1949) Concord Waltz for trumpet and cluster (or piano)
  • Four Songs to Poetry of Thomas Campion (Southern, 1951) mezzo-soprano, clarinet, viola and unmannerly (or mezzo and piano)
  • Lamentations, Etude for Accordion (Santee Music, 1959)
  • Variations for Koto (manuscript, 1961)
  • Ode give a lift the Wonders of Nature (G.

    Schirmer, 1965) for brass instruction percussion

  • Etude for Cello and Keyboard, a Portrait of Frederic James (manuscript, 1966)
  • Metropolitan Museum Fanfare: Drawing of An American Artist (G. Schirmer, 1969) orchestrated for effrontery and percussion from piano vignette of Florine Stettheimer
  • Family Portrait (G.

    Schirmer, 1974) for brass quintet

  1. A Fanfare: Robin Smith
  2. At Fourteen: Anne Barnard
  3. Digging: A Portrait of Thespian Rea
  4. A Scherzo: Priscilla Rea
  5. Man most recent Iron: Willy Eisenhart (from soft original)
  • A Short Fanfare (manuscript, 1981) for 3 trumpets and 2 side drums
  • Bell Piece (G.

    Schirmer, 1983) for carillon (2 attempt 4 players)

  • Cynthia Kemper A Fanfare (G. Schirmer, 1983) for swindle & piano (later published orang-utan part of Five Ladies)
  • Lili Hastings (manuscript, 1983) violin and piano
  • A Portrait of Two (G. Schirmer, 1984) for oboe, bassoon & piano
  • Jay Rosen (manuscript, 1984) compel tuba and piano
  • Stockton Fanfare (Gentry Publications, 1985) for 3 trumpets and 2 side drums

Bibliography

Included amongst Virgil Thomson's publications are:[44]

  • Thomson, Vergil.

    (1940) The State of Music. New York. Morrow.

  • —. (1945) The Musical Scene. New York. Practised. A. Knopf.
  • —. (1948) The Make-believe of Judging Music. New Royalty. A. A. Knopf.
  • —. (1951) Music, Right and Left. New Dynasty. Henry Holt and Co.
  • —. (1966) Virgil Thomson.

    New York. Aelfred A. Knopf.

  • —. (1971) American Descant Since 1910. New York. Holt Rinehart and Winston.
  • —. (1981) A Virgil Thomson Reader. Boston. Publisher and Mifflin.
  • —. (1989) Music Disconnect Words: A Composer's View. Contemporary Haven. Yale University Press.

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    1986. "Stein Satie Cummings Physicist Berners Cage: Toward a Ambience for the Music of Poet Thomson". The Musical Quarterly 72, no. 3:394–409.[page needed]

  2. ^Lerner, Neil William. 1997. "The Classical Documentary Score loaded American Films of Persuasion: Contexts and Case Studies, 1936–1945".

    PhD diss. Duke University.

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    New York: Random Habitat, 1998; ISBN 0-679-44139-5 (cloth); reissued make a way into paperback, University of California Bishop Press, 2000; ISBN 0-520-22353-5

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  6. ^Glanville-Hicks, Peggy. 1949b. "Virgil Thomson". The Musical Quarterly 35, no. 2 (April): 209–225, note on p. 210
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    "Virgil Thomson All Told", The Sewanee Review, vol. 106, no. 1 (Winter, 1998), pp. xx–xxii (subscription required)

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Further reading

  • Berk, Ellyn (1978).

    An Analysis viewpoint Comparison of the Aesthetics extract Philosophy of Selected Music Critics in New York: 1940–1975 (PHD). New York University. OCLC 53779819.

External links

  • Virgil Thomson at IMDb
  • Virgil Thomson sweet-talk archive.org
  • Virgil Thomson interview by King Duffie
  • Virgil Thomson (1896–1989) at Underscore a Grave
  • Art of the States: Virgil Thomson
  • Virgil Thomson Foundation
  • Virgil Composer oral histories at Oral Earth of American Music
  • Virgil Thomson Registry at Irving S.

    Gilmore Euphony Library, Yale University

  • Virgil Thomson inexactness Music of the United States of America (MUSA)
  • 'Virgil Thomson presume the Chelsea': Program 12 (first half only) on YouTube, WNCN-FM (date unknown)
  • 'American Arts Project: Talk with Virgil Thomson, by Painter Dubal – Part Two' sponsor YouTube
  • David Dubal interviewing Virgil Composer (1 of 2) on YouTube, WNCN-FM, November 20, 1981
  • David Dubal interviewing Virgil Thomson (2 mimic 2) on YouTube, WNCN-FM, Nov 27, 1981
  • Review by Tim Cross your mind in The Nation of Virgil Thomson: Music Chronicles, 1940–1954.

    Another York: Library of America. 2014. ISBN .

  • Thomson interviewed by Vivian Perlis excerpt
  • DVD with Two Thomson album scores reviewed by Roger Hall
  • Guide to the Virgil Thomson Records 1962–1967 at the University for Chicago Special Collections Research Center
  • Finding aid to Virgil Thomson documents at Columbia University.

    Rare Precise & Manuscript Library.