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...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...
...their orchestra on his 1946 visit, his music had shocked some. It seemed more violent and more rushed, particularly in the allegro movements of Beethoven symphonies. But one man was not at all surprised when Munch was asked to succeed Koussy. The New York Herald Tribune's Virgil Thomson had heard Munch conduct 15 years before in Paris and had prophesied that he would eventually lead the Boston. Why? Says Critic Thomson: "He was a natural Boston conductor, flat-stomached and grey-haired, and he created hysteria, particularly in the female over...
...Transportation. Loewy quickly found out that industrial design was not easy: it was "25% inspiration and 75% transportation." He lugged briefcases of designs from one manufacturer to another around the U.S., barely sold enough to keep body and penthouse together for his first wife, Nebraska-born Jean Thomson. (Divorced in 1945, they parted "the best of friends," and she still has a 4% interest in his company...
...music teachers meeting in San Francisco, Music Critic Virgil Thomson had a confession: "Criticism [of young performers] has an influence far beyond what seems to me right or justified, and management depends on us [critics] more than we wish to be depended...