Word: thees
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other works, Thomson has dabbled in modality and flirted with serialism; like Ives, he is not above quoting a famous melody (like My Country, 'Tis of Thee) when it suits his expressive purposes. The French influence on him is strong, as befits a prize pupil of Nadia Boulanger; the opening chords of the Louisiana Story suite might have been harmonized by Ravel. But whatever the style, the music is always unmistakably Thomson's: attractively urbane, piquant, eminently civilized...
...Hail to thee, blithe spirit! Man thou never wert, That from Heaven, or near it, pourest thy full heart In profuse strains of invigorated...
neighbour hath put thee to shame...
Lest he that heareth it put thee to shame...
...crab grass and delivers a sermon. He rhapsodizes about his pen pal Alexander Solzhenitsyn's dedication to freedom and Christianity. He flagrantly overstates Alexis de Tocqueville's 19th century observations about American piety. Most of all, he praises God. "The Lord is speaking to us: 'I have need for thee.' To uphold the principles and the laws, to be dedicated to the freedom, strength and nobility of those who preceded...