Word: thomson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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came Peggy Thomson, Alison Begbie...
...What is this? Constructivist staging or what?" cried New York Times Critic Olin Downes. The Herald Tribune's Virgil Thomson was equally dyspeptic; his evening at the Metropolitan Opera House reminded him of "the French chef who in serving a New England boiled dinner had carved the beets like roses and turned turnips into lilies . . ." The critics' ire and ulcers were aroused last week by the Met's new streamlined production of Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana and Leoncavallo's Pagliacci, the wonderful old pair of operatic favorites...
Born in Brooklyn, "on a street. . . that can only be described as drab," he survived the iron classical discipline of his first teachers, then, at 20, took off for Paris and the "encouraging" teaching of Nadia Boulanger (TIME, March 31, 1947). Other U.S. composers-Virgil Thomson, Walter Piston, Roy Harris, Marc Blitz-stein-were soon following the same Paris path...
When taken prisoner, the Jocks became more intractable than ever and were often shifted from ordinary P.W. camps to military prisons for a varied list of offenses, e.g., "Dunlop, five years for sabotage; Dykes, four years for breaking a picture of Hitler over the head of a guard; Thomson, five years for making an unprintable remark about Hitler . . ." Black Watchers were not only disrespectful prisoners, they were restless ones. Every captured officer of the regiment made at least one effort to escape...
...many a listener was concerned, budding Composer Kupferman, a man with a freshening sense of melody, could climb right up near Composer-Critic Thomson (Four Saints in Three Acts, The Mother of Us All) when it came to setting Stein to song...