Word: virgil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...letter from Koussevitzky asking for the parts. A performance followed that fall. Since then Koussevitzky has championed William Schuman's music. The Boston Symphony introduced his Third Symphony last October. The Clevelanders gave his Fourth its premiere in January. When the Fourth reached Manhattan last week, Musicritic Virgil Thomson found in it "an agreeable kind of boisterousness . . . that should be fun to dance...
...Fontanges, reveal the story of her passion for Italy's aging (58) Mussolini. Last week, two years later, she would scarcely have recognized her onetime lover.* In his private study at the Palazzo Venezia, Mussolini no longer entertains visitors. In deep gloom he sits alone, reading Dante and Virgil, while his people faint on the streets from hunger...
...Balabanoff found him sleeping under bridges in Switzerland; when Rachele Guidi shuddered as he spat at priests. A mockery of the man he might have been, Mussolini could well turn to reading the ancients. In the quiet of his study he might still forget the gnawing present in reading Virgil's silver lines...
...that keeps the god alive. Defiantly the man shatters the god's sacred altar, forcing the god to destroy him and, in so doing, to destroy himself. The opera had so little drama in it, such paucity of stage movement, that New York Herald Tribune Critic Virgil Thomson labeled it "a secular cantata." The music seesawed in a narrow range between lyrical sweetness and sonorous majesty, soaring but once to fervent heights. Yet the opera could not be dismissed as a flop: it was fashioned with expertness, flavored with individuality, imbued with an inner spark...
...Musicritic Virgil Thomson found a scholarly volume of radio theses* which proved, among other things, that "radio builds up a pseudo interest in music," that "popular songs are not popular because people like them, but . . . have been imposed on public taste through the very nearly 100%-efficient plugging process...