Word: virgil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Grey Mood. In Oklahoma City, Virgil Seeton, charged with kicking his wife in the face, was haled into court by his son, who testified: "He does this sort of thing whenever the weather...
Wrote the New York Herald Tribune's Virgil Thomson: "If Mr. Britten's work came out scarcely in English, vocally loud from beginning to end and decorated in a manner both ugly and anachronistic, it also came through the ordeal with its music still alive and its human drama still touching...
Gypsy Rose Lee came in blue jeans, to paint Benjy's fourth-floor rooms. Author Christopher Isherwood, Poet Louis Mac-Neice, Composers Aaron Copland and Virgil Thomson drifted in & out. At meals, Auden presided at one end of the table. He also did the bookkeeping, and was irritated if any of the tenants questioned their bills. Benjy always paid up (about $25 a week) without a murmur...
...performance of Schumann's Concerto in A Minor too cold and brittle for their taste. But most of them were sure of one thing: in the small field of women concert pianists, she was the brightest newcomer of the year. "Here," wrote the Herald Tribune's Virgil Thomson, "is an artist one can enjoy with all the faculties-with the sentiments, with the mind, and with the musical...
...Palestrina to U.S. contemporary Composer Paul Creston, who has arranged works especially for them. Critics gave them good marks for diction, blending of voices and clarity of line, and for a welcome versatility of material which the Don Cossack choruses lack. Wrote the New York Herald Tribune's Virgil Thomson: "[This choir] could, without half trying, raise the whole level of our current taste in semi-popular music. It is that good." Columbia Concerts, Inc., which thought so too, has signed the boys to a 140-concert tour of the U.S. and Canada...