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Virgil Thomson, the Glossary

Virgil Thomson (November 25, 1896 – September 30, 1989) was an American composer and critic.^[1]

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American ballet composers
LGBT film score composers

Aaron Copland

Aaron Copland (November 14, 1900December 2, 1990) was an American composer, critic, writer, teacher, pianist and later a conductor of his own and other American music. Virgil Thomson and Aaron Copland are American LGBT composers, American ballet composers, American expatriates in France, American film score composers, American male film score composers, American male opera composers, American opera composers, Kennedy Center honorees, LGBT classical composers, LGBT film score composers, MacDowell Colony fellows, Pulitzer Prize for Music winners and United States National Medal of Arts recipients.

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Agnes de Mille

Agnes George de Mille (September 18, 1905 – October 7, 1993) was an American dancer and choreographer. Virgil Thomson and Agnes de Mille are Kennedy Center honorees and United States National Medal of Arts recipients.

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Anthony Tommasini

Anthony Carl Tommasini (born April 14, 1948) is an American music critic and author who specializes in classical music. Virgil Thomson and Anthony Tommasini are opera critics.

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Arthur Honegger

Arthur Honegger (10 March 1892 – 27 November 1955) was a Swiss composer who was born in France and lived a large part of his life in Paris.

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Benjamin Britten

Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten (22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976, aged 63) was an English composer, conductor, and pianist. Virgil Thomson and Benjamin Britten are LGBT classical composers.

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Benjamin Ivry

Benjamin Ivry is an American writer on the arts, broadcaster and translator.

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Carillon

A carillon is a pitched percussion instrument that is played with a keyboard and consists of at least 23 bells.

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Cello Concerto (Thomson)

The Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra is a composition for cello and orchestra by the American composer Virgil Thomson.

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Chicago Tribune

The Chicago Tribune is an American daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, owned by Tribune Publishing.

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Community of Christ, known from 1872 to 2001 as the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (RLDS), is an American-based international church, and is the second-largest denomination in the Latter Day Saint movement.

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Critic

A critic is a person who communicates an assessment and an opinion of various forms of creative works such as art, literature, music, cinema, theater, fashion, architecture, and food.

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Darius Milhaud

Darius Milhaud (4 September 1892 – 22 June 1974) was a French composer, conductor, and teacher.

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Delta Omicron

Delta Omicron (ΔΟ) is a co-ed international professional music honors fraternity whose mission is to promote and support excellence in music and musicianship.

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Docufiction

Docufiction (or docu-fiction) is the cinematographic combination of documentary and fiction, this term often meaning narrative film.

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Edward MacDowell Medal

The Edward MacDowell Medal is an award which has been given since 1960 to one person annually who has made an outstanding contribution to American culture and the arts.

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Encyclopædia Britannica

The British Encyclopaedia is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia.

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Erick Hawkins

Frederick "Erick" Hawkins (April 23, 1909November 23, 1994) was an American modern-dance choreographer and dancer.

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Erik Satie

Eric Alfred Leslie Satie (17 May 18661 July 1925), who signed his name Erik Satie after 1884, was a French composer and pianist.

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Eugene Ormandy

Eugene Ormandy (born Jenő Blau; November 18, 1899 – March 12, 1985) was a Hungarian-born American conductor and violinist, best known for his association with the Philadelphia Orchestra, as its music director. Virgil Thomson and Eugene Ormandy are Kennedy Center honorees.

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Exquisite corpse

Exquisite corpse (from the original French term, literally exquisite cadaver) is a method by which a collection of words or images is collectively assembled.

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Farm Security Administration

The Farm Security Administration (FSA) was a New Deal agency created in 1937 to combat rural poverty during the Great Depression in the United States.

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Four Saints in Three Acts

Four Saints in Three Acts is an opera composed in 1928 by Virgil Thomson, setting a libretto written in 1927 by Gertrude Stein.

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Francis Poulenc

Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc (7 January 189930 January 1963) was a French composer and pianist. Virgil Thomson and Francis Poulenc are LGBT classical composers.

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Frank O'Hara

Francis Russell "Frank" O'Hara (March 27, 1926 – July 25, 1966) was an American writer, poet, and art critic.

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Frederick M. Smith

Frederick Madison Smith (January 21, 1874 – March 20, 1946), generally known among his followers as "Fred M.", was an American religious leader and author and the third Prophet-President of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (renamed the Community of Christ in 2001), serving from 1915 until his death.

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George Balanchine

George Balanchine (Various sources. Virgil Thomson and George Balanchine are Kennedy Center honorees.

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Georges Auric

Georges Auric (15 February 1899 – 23 July 1983) was a French composer, born in Lodève, Hérault, France.

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Germaine Tailleferre

Germaine Tailleferre (born Marcelle Germaine Taillefesse; 19 April 18927 November 1983) was a French composer and the only female member of the group of composers known as Les Six.

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Gertrude Stein

Gertrude Stein (February 3, 1874 – July 27, 1946) was an American novelist, poet, playwright, and art collector.

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Grace and Holy Trinity Cathedral (Kansas City, Missouri)

Grace and Holy Trinity Cathedral is an Episcopal cathedral in the Quality Hill neighborhood of downtown Kansas City, Missouri, United States.

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Harvard Glee Club

The Harvard Glee Club (Glee Club or HGC) is a 60-voice, Tenor-Bass choral ensemble at Harvard University.

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Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Hollywood Bowl

The Hollywood Bowl is an amphitheatre in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles, California, United States.

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Hollywood Bowl Orchestra

The Hollywood Bowl Orchestra (HBO) is a symphony orchestra that is managed by the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association and plays the vast majority of its performances at the Hollywood Bowl.

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Hotel Chelsea

The Hotel Chelsea (also known as the Chelsea Hotel and the Chelsea) is a hotel at 222 West 23rd Street in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City.

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International Alliance for Women in Music

The International Alliance for Women in Music (IAWM) is an international membership organization of women and men dedicated to fostering and encouraging the activities of women in music, particularly in the areas of musical activity, such as composing, performing, and research, in which gender discrimination is a historic and ongoing concern.

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Jack Larson

Jack Edward Larson (February 8, 1928 – September 20, 2015) was an American actor, librettist, screenwriter and producer best known for his portrayal of photographer/cub reporter Jimmy Olsen on the television series Adventures of Superman.

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John Cage

John Milton Cage Jr. (September 5, 1912 – August 12, 1992) was an American composer and music theorist. Virgil Thomson and John Cage are American LGBT composers, American ballet composers, American male opera composers, American opera composers, composers for carillon and LGBT classical composers.

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John Tyrrell (musicologist)

John Tyrrell (17 August 1942 – 4 October 2018) was a British musicologist.

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Joseph Smith

Joseph Smith Jr. (December 23, 1805June 27, 1844) was an American religious leader and the founder of Mormonism and the Latter Day Saint movement.

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Journal of the Society for American Music

The Journal of the Society for American Music, published quarterly, is a peer-reviewed academic journal and the official journal of the Society for American Music.

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Kansas City, Missouri

Kansas City, Missouri (KC or KCMO) is the largest city in the U.S. state of Missouri by population and area.

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Kennedy Center Honors

The Kennedy Center Honors are annual honors given to those in the performing arts for their lifetime of contributions to American culture.

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Latter Day Saint movement

The Latter Day Saint movement (also called the LDS movement, LDS restorationist movement, or Smith–Rigdon movement) is the collection of independent church groups that trace their origins to a Christian Restorationist movement founded by Joseph Smith in the late 1820s.

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Leonard Bernstein

Leonard Bernstein (born Louis Bernstein; August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990) was an American conductor, composer, pianist, music educator, author, and humanitarian. Virgil Thomson and Leonard Bernstein are American LGBT composers, American ballet composers, American film score composers, American male film score composers, American male opera composers, Kennedy Center honorees, LGBT classical composers, LGBT film score composers and MacDowell Colony fellows.

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Leopold Stokowski

Leopold Anthony Stokowski (18 April 1882 – 13 September 1977) was a British-born American conductor.

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Les Six

"Les Six" is a name given to a group of six composers, five of them French and one Swiss, who lived and worked in Montparnasse.

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Lew Christensen

Lewellyn Farr Christensen (May 6, 1909 – October 9, 1984) was a ballet dancer, choreographer and director for many companies.

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Library of America

The Library of America (LOA) is a nonprofit publisher of classic American literature.

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Lise Deharme

Lise Deharme (née Anne-Marie Hirtz; 5 May 1898 – 19 January 1980) was a French writer associated with the Surrealist movement.

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Lord Byron (opera)

Lord Byron is an opera in three acts by Virgil Thomson to an original English libretto by Jack Larson, inspired by the historical character Lord Byron.

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Lou Harrison

Lou Silver Harrison (May 14, 1917 – February 2, 2003) was an American composer, music critic, music theorist, painter, and creator of unique musical instruments. Virgil Thomson and Lou Harrison are American LGBT composers, American male opera composers, American music critics, American opera composers and LGBT classical composers.

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Louisiana Story

Louisiana Story is a 1948 American black-and-white drama film directed and produced by Robert J. Flaherty.

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MacDowell (artists' residency and workshop)

MacDowell is an artist's residency program in Peterborough, New Hampshire. Virgil Thomson and MacDowell (artists' residency and workshop) are MacDowell Colony fellows and United States National Medal of Arts recipients.

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Maurice Grosser

Maurice Grosser (October 23, 1903 – December 22, 1986) was an American painter, art critic, and writer.

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Max Kahn

Max Kahn (1902–2005) was a Litvak lithographer, painter and sculptor born in Slonim, Belarus in 1902. Virgil Thomson and Max Kahn are American expatriates in France.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, colloquially referred to as the Met, is an encyclopedic art museum in New York City.

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Modernism (music)

In music, modernism is an aesthetic stance underlying the period of change and development in musical language that occurred around the turn of the 20th century, a period of diverse reactions in challenging and reinterpreting older categories of music, innovations that led to new ways of organizing and approaching harmonic, melodic, sonic, and rhythmic aspects of music, and changes in aesthetic worldviews in close relation to the larger identifiable period of modernism in the arts of the time.

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Nadia Boulanger

Juliette Nadia Boulanger (16 September 188722 October 1979) was a French music teacher, conductor and composer.

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National Medal of Arts

The National Medal of Arts is an award and title created by the United States Congress in 1984, for the purpose of honoring artists and patrons of the arts. Virgil Thomson and National Medal of Arts are United States National Medal of Arts recipients.

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Ned Rorem

Ned Miller Rorem (October 23, 1923 – November 18, 2022) was an American composer of contemporary classical music and a writer. Virgil Thomson and Ned Rorem are American LGBT composers, American male opera composers, American opera composers, LGBT classical composers and Pulitzer Prize for Music winners.

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Neoclassicism (music)

Neoclassicism in music was a twentieth-century trend, particularly current in the interwar period, in which composers sought to return to aesthetic precepts associated with the broadly defined concept of "classicism", namely order, balance, clarity, economy, and emotional restraint.

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Neoromanticism (music)

In Western classical music, neoromanticism is a return to the emotional expression associated with nineteenth-century Romanticism.

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New York Herald Tribune

The New York Herald Tribune was a newspaper published between 1924 and 1966.

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New York University

New York University (NYU) is a private research university in New York City, United States.

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Notes (journal)

Notes is a quarterly journal devoted to "music librarianship, music bibliography and discography, the music trade, and on certain aspects of music history." Published by the Music Library Association, Notes offers reviews on current music-related books, digital media, and sound recordings as well as inventories of publishers’ catalogs and materials recently received.

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Pablo Picasso

Pablo Ruiz Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France.

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Pare Lorentz

Pare Lorentz (December 11, 1905 – March 4, 1992) was an American filmmaker known for his film work about the New Deal.

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Paul Bowles

Paul Frederic Bowles (December 30, 1910November 18, 1999) was an American expatriate composer, author, and translator. Virgil Thomson and Paul Bowles are American LGBT composers, American expatriates in France, American male opera composers and American opera composers.

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Pervigilium Veneris

Pervigilium Veneris (or The Vigil of Venus) is a Latin poem of uncertain date, variously assigned to the 2nd, 4th or 5th centuries.

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Philadelphia Orchestra

The Philadelphia Orchestra is an American symphony orchestra, based in Philadelphia.

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Pilgrims and Pioneers

Pilgrims and Pioneers is a symphonic poem written by the American composer Virgil Thomson.

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Pulitzer Prize for Music

The Pulitzer Prize for Music is one of seven Pulitzer Prizes awarded annually in Letters, Drama, and Music. Virgil Thomson and Pulitzer Prize for Music are Pulitzer Prize for Music winners.

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Resettlement Administration

The Resettlement Administration (RA) was a New Deal U.S. federal agency created May 1, 1935.

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Richard Kostelanetz

Richard Cory Kostelanetz (born May 14, 1940) is an American artist, author, and critic.

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Robert J. Flaherty

Robert Joseph Flaherty, (February 16, 1884 – July 23, 1951) was an American filmmaker who directed and produced the first commercially successful feature-length documentary film, Nanook of the North (1922).

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Ronald Reagan

Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911June 5, 2004) was an American politician and actor who served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989.

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Samuel Sanford

Samuel Simons Sanford (15 March 18496 January 1910) was an American pianist and educator.

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Stanley Sadie

Stanley John Sadie (30 October 1930 – 21 March 2005) was an influential and prolific British musicologist, music critic, and editor. Virgil Thomson and Stanley Sadie are opera critics.

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Steven Watson (born 1947) is an author, art and cultural historian, curator, and documentary filmmaker.

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Susan B. Anthony

Susan B. Anthony (born Susan Anthony; February 15, 1820 – March 13, 1906) was an American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement.

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Symphony on a Hymn Tune

Symphony on a Hymn Tune is a four-movement orchestral composition by the American composer Virgil Thomson.

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Tennessee Williams

Thomas Lanier Williams III (March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983), known by his pen name Tennessee Williams, was an American playwright and screenwriter. Virgil Thomson and Tennessee Williams are Kennedy Center honorees.

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The Goddess (1958 film)

The Goddess is a 1958 American drama film directed by John Cromwell and starring Kim Stanley and Lloyd Bridges.

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art Centennial

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Centennial was a series of events and initiatives celebrating the 100th anniversary of the charter of the Museum occurring between 1969 and 1971.

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The Mother of Us All

The Mother of Us All is a two-act opera composed by Virgil Thomson to a libretto by Gertrude Stein.

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The Musical Quarterly

The Musical Quarterly is the oldest academic journal on music in America.

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The Nation

The Nation is a progressive American monthly magazine that covers political and cultural news, opinion, and analysis.

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The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians

The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians is an encyclopedic dictionary of music and musicians.

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The Plow That Broke the Plains

The Plow That Broke the Plains is a 1936 short documentary film that shows the cultivation of the Great Plains region of the United States and Canada following the Civil War and leading up to the Dust Bowl as a result of farmers' exploitation of the Great Plains' natural resources.

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The River (1938 film)

The River is a 1938 short documentary film which shows the importance of the Mississippi River to the United States, and how farming and timber practices had caused topsoil to be swept down the river and into the Gulf of Mexico, leading to catastrophic floods and impoverishing farmers.

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Theodor W. Adorno

Theodor W. Adorno (born Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund; 11 September 1903 – 6 August 1969) was a German philosopher, musicologist, and social theorist.

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Thomas Hardie Chalmers

Thomas Hardie Chalmers (October 20, 1884 – June 11, 1966) was an American opera singer and actor.

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Tim Page (music critic)

Tim Page (born Ellis Batten Page Jr.; 11 October 1954) is an American writer, music critic, editor, producer and professor who won the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for his music criticism for The Washington Post. Virgil Thomson and Tim Page (music critic) are opera critics.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgil_Thomson

Also known as Virgil Garnett Thomson, Virgil Thompson.

, Lord Byron (opera), Lou Harrison, Louisiana Story, MacDowell (artists' residency and workshop), Maurice Grosser, Max Kahn, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Modernism (music), Nadia Boulanger, National Medal of Arts, Ned Rorem, Neoclassicism (music), Neoromanticism (music), New York Herald Tribune, New York University, Notes (journal), Pablo Picasso, Pare Lorentz, Paul Bowles, Pervigilium Veneris, Philadelphia Orchestra, Pilgrims and Pioneers, Pulitzer Prize for Music, Resettlement Administration, Richard Kostelanetz, Robert J. Flaherty, Ronald Reagan, Samuel Sanford, Stanley Sadie, Steven Watson (author), Susan B. Anthony, Symphony on a Hymn Tune, Tennessee Williams, The Goddess (1958 film), The Metropolitan Museum of Art Centennial, The Mother of Us All, The Musical Quarterly, The Nation, The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, The Plow That Broke the Plains, The River (1938 film), Theodor W. Adorno, Thomas Hardie Chalmers, Tim Page (music critic), Tristan Tzara, Walt Whitman, Yale University, YouTube.

Virgil Thomson, the Glossary

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See also

American ballet composers

LGBT film score composers

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