Word: virgil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...well-sung, dramatic (if occasionally overplayed) Don Giovanni in two acts. With a stylized set, which was made to do for both indoor & outdoor scenes, Halasz simplified Don Giovanni's nine cumbersome scenes without sacrificing any of the music. Wrote the New York Herald Tribune's Critic Virgil Thomson: "The most distinguished piece of work all through that our city troupe has yet produced...
...eclogues of Theocritus and Virgil, shepherds met in bucolic settings and conversed in polished verses. In Auden's eclogue, three men and a woman fall into a wartime conversation-in nine-syllable lines-in a Manhattan bar. They are: Quant, a sardonic shipping clerk; Malin, a medical intelligence officer in the Canadian Air Force; Rosetta, a department store buyer; Emble, a good-looking young naval officer. It is All Souls' Night...
Completing the list of American educators are literary critic Alfred Kazin, New York Herald Tribune music critic Virgil Thomson '22, J. J. Sweeney, former director of the New York Museum of Modern Art, and public opinion expert Lyman Bryson of Columbia University and the Columbia Broadcasting system...
Thomson: The Plow That Broke the Plains (Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski conducting; Victor, 4 sides). Unlike most movie music, this still breathes after being separated from its celluloid twin, a documentary film by Pare Lorentz. Manhattan's fastidious Composer-Critic Virgil Thomson, an expatriate from Kansas City, Mo., makes his folk material sound as authentic as Midwestern prairie wheat, but his handling of jazz smacks more of corn. Recording: excellent...
Thirty-five singers were on hand to present a program featuring works by Mozart and Virgil Thomson, and were followed by renditions of college and martial airs by the Band...