Word: thomson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they were going ahead to beat the band. In Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum,' art lovers joined music lovers in the Great Hall for the first of three free symphony concerts by the Old Timers. First, to demonstrate that new music is not beyond oldsters, they sent Virgil Thomson's dissonant Seine at Night flowing down the corridors -and the brasses got their chance to show they still had both wind and beauty of tone. In Chausson's Poème, with Violinist Ruggiero Ricci as guest soloist, the strings got to prove that they improve with...
...Virgil Thomson you quote as prophet (he prophesied that Munch would eventually lead the Boston Orchestra) apparently has no standing with you as a critic . . . Virgil Thomson says that the Philadelphia Orchestra is "certainly the finest orchestra, I think, now playing in America, which means anywhere...
...ready for her New York debut. After her half-hour Carnegie Hall concert last week, sponsored on a network hookup by the American Oil Co., she got a kiss from Opera Star Lauritz Melchior and a notice from the New York Herald Tribune's Critic Virgil Thomson who wrote: "Few artists now appearing before the public have Miss Truman's physical advantages, and almost none other has her dignity." But as for "temperament, the quality that enables a musician to bring music to life, she seemed to have none at all. [She] is obliged to [sing carefully...