11/25/1896
Virgil Thomson (November 25, 1896 – September 30, 1989) was an American composer and critic. He was instrumental in the development of the "American Sound" in classical music. He has been described as a modernist, a neoromantic, a neoclassicist, and a composer of "an Olympian blend of humanity and detachment" whose "expressive voice was always carefully muted" until his late opera Lord Byron which, in contrast to all his previous work, exhibited an emotional content that rises to "moments of real passion".
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Chelsea Hotel (1981) as Self |
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Poem Posters (1967) as Self |
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145 W. 21 (1936) as |
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Is Dead - Portrait incomplet de Gertrude Stein (2000) Original Music Composer |
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Power Among Men (1959) Music |
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The Goddess (1958) Original Music Composer |
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King Lear (1953) Original Music Composer |
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Louisiana Story (1948) Original Music Composer |
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Tuesday in November (1945) Music |
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The River (1938) Original Music Composer |
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The Spanish Earth (1937) Music |
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The Plow That Broke the Plains (1936) Original Music Composer |