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Samuel P. Huntington, Thomson Professor of Government, said Reagan began his administration with a foreign policy influenced largely by previous political beliefs. The "complex realities of the international system" forced Reagan to change his foreign policy, Huntington added...
...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...
Despite his cordiality to Glass, Thomson asserts: "There is less originality in music today than 50 years ago or 75 years, when it was booming...
...last survivors, along with Copland and Sessions, of an important generation of composers that included Walter Piston, Roy Harris, Douglas Moore, Howard Hanson and Leo Sowerby, Thomson's lasting contributions are likely to be the two operas he wrote with Stein (the second was the 1947 The Mother of Us All) and his criticism. Critic Thomson cheerfully concurs about the operas, at least: "I think I am a good opera composer. There have been some 3,000 performances of The Mother of Us All. It makes you know it is foolproof." No major opera house has yet produced...
Sampler of Thomson's writings...