Word: thompsons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TIME TO LAUGH (191 pp.)-Laurence Thompson-Messner...
Portable Gods. Poor Gadein is the almost-hero of A Time to Laugh, a fine first novel by Briton Laurence Thompson. The nicest thing that can be said about A Time to Laugh is that it is a strong reminder of Joyce Gary's Mister Johnson, just about the finest novel about Africa ever written. Author Thompson is no Gary yet, but his hero, like Mr. Johnson, is that charming innocent, the unspoiled primitive man thrust into and beaten up by a world he never made. Of the two, Johnson had it better; he merely became a clerk...
...honor of his seventieth birthday. Virgil Thomson's Kyrie Eleison, with a rhythmically free main line that seemed to float between sopranos and basses, had some startling harmonies and enough consistency to make it the most memorable of the four. Some rather academic music by Allen Sapp and Randall Thompson, and Henry Leland Clarke's complicated, episodic treatment of Happy Is the Man (Proverb 3:13) at least proved how very diverse Davison's influence has been...
Music in Davison's honor, composed especially for the occasion by Henry L. Clark, Virgil Thomson '22, Randall Thompson '20, Walter Bigelow Rosen Professor of Music, and Allen D. Sapp, assistant professor of Music, will comprise the latter part...
That year Randall Thompson '20 announced that, according to a survey of all college music departments in the association of American colleges, "over a million copies of Dr. Davison's song arrangements in sheet music have been sold", and that bound volumes of these arrangements had found their way into 300 colleges...