Virgil Thomson |

Virgil Thomson

I ako ia i te Whare Wananga o Harvard, katahi i Paris me Nadia Boulanger. I roto i te wa o Parisian o tona oranga, ka piri ia ki a Gertrude Stein, i muri mai ka tuhia e ia nga opera e rua i runga i tana libretto, i puta mai ai te ahua o te ahua: Four Saints in Three Acts (eng. Four Saints in Three Acts; 1927-1928, staged 1934 ; a karekau he mahi i roto i te opera toru, kaore hoki e wha nga tangata tapu e uru ana) me "Our Common Mother" (Eng. The Mother of Us All; 1947; i runga i te koiora o Susan Brownell Anthony, tetahi o nga kaihanga o te kaupapa wahine i Amerika). I te tau 1939 ka whakaputahia e ia te State of Music, i tino rongonui ai ia; whai muri ko The Musical Scene (1945), The Art of Judging Music (1948) me te Waiata Matau me te Maui (1951). ). I te tau 1940-1954. He kairiiri waiata a Thomson mo tetahi o nga niupepa rongonui o Amerika, ko te New York Herald Tribune.

I tuhi waiata a Thomson mo nga pikitia neke, tae atu ki te kiriata toa a Pulitzer Prize Louisiana Story (1948), me nga mahi whakaari, tae atu ki te hanga a Orson Welles o Macbeth. Na William Christensen (1954) i whakaari te poipere ki tana waiata Filling Station. Ko tetahi momo whakamere i mahi ai a Thomson ko nga "whakaahua puoro" - nga waahanga iti e tohu ana i ona hoa mahi me ona hoa mohio.

Ko te porowhita i hanga huri noa i a Thomson he maha nga kaiwaiata rongonui o te reanga e whai ake nei, tae atu ki a Leonard Bernstein, Paul Bowles, me Ned Rorem.