Virgil Thomson |

Virgil Thomson

Akadzidza paHarvard University, ipapo kuParis naNadia Boulanger. Munguva yeParisian yehupenyu hwake, akave pedyo naGertrude Stein, akazonyora opera maviri kubva pakusununguka kwake, izvo zvakakonzera kuita kunofadza: Four Saints in Three Acts (eng. Four Saints in Three Acts; 1927-1928, yakaitwa muna 1934). ; uye hapana zviito mu opera yechitatu, uye hakuna vatsvene vana vanobatanidzwa) uye "Amai Vedu Vedu" (Eng. Amai Vedu Tose; 1947; zvichibva pahupenyu hwaSusan Brownell Anthony, mumwe wevakatanga sangano revakadzi muUnited States). Muna 1939 akabudisa The State of Music, iyo yakamuunzira mukurumbira mukuru; yakateverwa neThe Musical Scene (1945), Iyo Art of Judging Music (1948) uye Musical Kurudyi uye Kuruboshwe (1951). ) Muna 1940-1954. Thomson aive munyori wemumhanzi werimwe remapepanhau eAmerica anoremekedzwa zvikuru, New York Herald Tribune.

Thomson akanyora mimhanzi yemifananidzo inofamba, kusanganisira iyo Pulitzer Prize-kuhwina firimu Louisiana Nyaya (1948), uye yemitambo yemitambo, kusanganisira Orson Welles 'kugadzirwa kweMacbeth. Ballet kumumhanzi wake Kuzadza Station yakaitwa naWilliam Christensen (1954). Mhando inonakidza iyo Thomson akashanda nayo yaiva "mifananidzo yemimhanzi" - zvidimbu zviduku zvinoratidzira vaaishanda navo uye vaaizivana navo.

Denderedzwa rakaumbwa rakatenderedza Thomson raisanganisira vaimbi vane mukurumbira vechizvarwa chaitevera, kusanganisira Leonard Bernstein, Paul Bowles, naNed Rorem.