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...good or ill," says Composer-Critic Virgil Thomson, "I've lived off the products and byproducts of my musical talents since I was 25." The products have included some of the best theater music (Four Saints in Three Acts and suites from Louisiana Story and The River) written in the U.S. Among the byproducts is some of the wittiest and most perceptive musical criticism. This week, at a concert of his music in Manhattan's Town Hall, Thomson celebrated his 63th birthday and 40 years of passionate proselytizing for modern music...
Included on the program were excerpts from Thomson's The Mother of Us All, a two-act opera about Feminist Susan B. Anthony, with text by Gertrude Stein, the Sonata da Chiesa, Etudes for Piano, Lamentations for Accordion. Although Thomson's neatly fashioned, strongly melodic film scores have a misty, impressionist charm and are his best known works, there is a more abrasive and far more somber side to his music. It was clearly demonstrated in the anniversary concert's Sonata da Chiesa, with its opening chorale based on a Kansas City Negro church service. Strangely...
...first time this year the Crimson played first-class defensive hockey. Veteran defensemen Harry Howell and Dave Johnston look as good as they did last year, and Harvard coach "Cooney" Weiland was very pleased with the performance of Ron Thomson and Mike Patterson...
Welland has added defensemen Ron Thomson and Mike Patterson to his roster for the game, as well as the high-scoring junior varsity line of Chuck Mercer, Dick Blakey, and Mike Tyler...
With the Ellerman magazines added to his roster, tireless Roy Thomson has already begun to beat the bushes for more bargains. A man with the expansion powers of an inhaling toad, he has traversed four continents since October, gathering so many more new properties that he himself has lost track. "Let's see," he asked an aide last week, trying for a head count. "How many magazines did we pick up out in Australia? Ten or twelve? Oh, fine, 13. How many we got in Africa? Thirty in Africa. We got three new TV stations in Kenya, Uganda...