Word: thomson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Musicritic Virgil Thomson found a scholarly volume of radio theses* which proved, among other things, that "radio builds up a pseudo interest in music," that "popular songs are not popular because people like them, but . . . have been imposed on public taste through the very nearly 100%-efficient plugging process...
...toes may be stepped on and some popular heroes outrageously traduced, so it is hoped that all who feel moved to reply by letter will do so. The good letters will be printed in part, and often the letters constitute the most readable part of a column, as Vergil Thomson's Herald Tribune column has amply demonstrated this fall...
...first U.S. ballet troupe that ever invaded South America. Tall, truculent Lincoln Kirstein, reviving his barnstorming Ballet Caravan, had assembled a company of 52, 60 crates of scenery and costumes, a repertory of 14 ballets. On opening night, Rio saw Estacion Gasolinera (by Choregrapher Lew Christenson, Composer Virgil Thomson, Painter Paul Cadmus), which the U.S. knew as Filling Station...
...composer, Virgil Thomson helped invent Neo-Romanticism, which is described in the current Modern Music as "a melodious simplicity, accepting all the known tricks of the trade, with a friendly nod to dissonance or any other musical Nance...
Last autumn Neo-Romanticist Thomson became musicritic of the New York Herald Tribune. Since then the musical intelligence in that paper-often dictated by Mr. Thomson in his dressing gown (camel's hair, from Sulka)-has been the most readable in the U.S. Critic Thomson knows his stuff, and is entirely without self-consciousness in saying it. Instead of mumbling about dynamics, he reports: the orchestra "played loud." He announced firmly, of Composer Samuel Barber, that "his heart is pure." In café lingo he declared that a chorus sang "perfectly. But perfectly." He also twists the tails...