Word: virgil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan audience, looking unseasonably plushy, last week cooed and clapped its way through the revival of a cockeyed opera-Four Saints in Three Acts. The author of its words, expatriate Gertrude Stein, is still expatriate in Occupied France. The author of its music, Expatriate Virgil Thomson, now repatriated in Manhattan, supervised the second showing...
Future Coffee Concerts include: an oratorio version of the chichi-melodious Gertrude Stein-Virgil Thomson opera, Four Saints in Three Acts; Spanish music (with the bagpipers); voodoo dancers and Brazilian Soprano Elsie Houston; a "Jubilee" of gospel-singing Negro quartets (some with three or five members) and the guitar-playing bishop. The bishop, the Rev. Utah Smith, wears paper wings, lately inspired Composer-Critic Thomson to write: "As a stimulator of choric transports he incites the faithful to movements and behavior not very different from those of any true jitterbug. Myself, I found it distinctly pleasant to hear good swing...
...STATE OF Music-Virgil Thomson -Morrow...
...punches. But before the first season was over, it was obvious even to Carnegie Hall's ushers that the fight was fixed. Box office fell off; even Manhattan's kindest critics began to grumble. Last October the New York Herald Tribune's bumptious new Critic Virgil Thomson called the Philharmonic's playing "logy and coarse," "dull and brutal," said it had "the sombre and spiritless sonority of a German military band...
...Memorial Auditorium, finest in the land.) In Manhattan's mellow Carnegie Hall, the Philharmonic-Symphony also launched its 99th season of concerts. This last event produced the loudest crash. For Manhattan's Herald Tribune produced a notable new critic: witty, chubby-cheeked, ex-expatriate Virgil Thomson, composer (Four Saints in Three Acts, cinemusic for The Plow That Broke the Plains, The River), onetime writer on music for Vanity Fair and the Boston Transcript...