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...composer Virgil Thomson '22 listened, a group of Harvard students and alumni performed selections of his works at a double celebration concert yesterday, commemorating both his 90th birthday and the 350th birthday of Harvard...
Makers of high-technology goods are jubilant too. Last year U.S. imports of electronic equipment exceeded exports by $8.6 billion, and the falling dollar should help reduce that imbalance. Says Ralph Thomson, senior vice president of the American Electronics Association, which represents 2,700 manufacturers of everything from microchips to medical instruments: "Among the major barriers that we face in international trade, the strong dollar has been the primary one. When we see that situation changing, we say 'Bravo...
More likely, happiness is going from movie to movie or, better yet, staying home to slip those little dream sandwiches into the VCR. Thomson plays to this explosion in film culture in much the way that Jorge Luis Borges ingratiates bibliophiles by writing fantasies about books. One good unreality deserves another...
...history is more cryptic than that of Noah Cross (John Huston in Chinatown), ruthless Los Angeles pioneer, father to his own granddaughter and possible sire of Elsa Bannister (Rita Hayworth in The Lady from Shanghai). He is the omnipotent wizard in Thomson's sinister Oz, an America whose center is located in Bedford Falls, Neb. It is a mythical place of lost innocence and the home of George Bailey, who watches SAC bombers over the cornfields of his youth and concludes that "America is just a story of its men and women going from happiness to stoicism...
...practical musical experience, so Glass set out for New York City and the Juilliard School, from which he graduated in 1962. Dissatisfied with his technique, he headed for Paris a couple of years later to study with Nadia Boulanger, the renowned pedagogue who had taught Aaron Copland and ; Virgil Thomson. "Boulanger believed that the training we got in America was simply not thorough enough," says Glass. "She was convinced that at age 27 I had to redo completely my musical education." As the oldest member of the Boulangerie, he studied counterpoint six to eight hours a day. To help make...