Word: virgil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Adams House will again compete with the Lowell Opera next spring. After a year's lapse Adams House will return to opera with a performance of "The Mother of Us All," by Virgil Thompson and Gertrude Stein. The tentative date is for March...
Among members of the group were G. Wallace Woodworth '24, who served as assistant accompanist, and Virgil Thomson...
...composers who serve on the advisory committee of the series are paired on one LP. String Quartet No. 2 (1932), by Composer Virgil Thomson, is a smooth-gliding composition that would be more fun if it contained more of the surrealist ambiguity of Thomson's later style. William Schuman's five piano pieces called Voyage (played by Beveridge Webster) include two that find the composer more absorbed in the web of his ponderous sonorities than a listener ever could be; other movements titillate the ear with a kind of hectic animation...
...have just read with some amusement the July 4 letter of that blithe spirit, Virgil C. Krebs, of Cicero, Ill. Mr. Krebs sought not only to castigate the Richmond News Leader but the South in general (a popular sport in some parts of this fair land). Can it be that Mr. Krebs of Cicero, Ill. is weak in his own local history? Can it be that Mr. Krebs is unaware that his home town, having been born in sin, nurtured in bathtub gin, brothels and girlie shows, is the same town which grew and prospered and ultimately became...
...VIRGIL C. KREBS...