Word: virgil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Virgil Thomson...
...Twenty-Fifth Hour-Virgil Georghiu...
Cincinnati has the pitching to make the first division, with Ewell Blackwell, Herman Wehmeler, Howle Fox, and Ken Raffensberger; Frank Smith is the top relief hurler of the year. But only Virgil Stallcup and Johnny Wyrostek have hit well so far. If first baseman Ted Kluszewski starts slugging, the Reds have a good chance at third...
...Harvard Glee Club and the Radcliffe Choral Society constitute threw of the finest singing societies in America--a men's choir, a women's choir, and a mixed choir," according to Virgil Thompson, New York Herald Tribune music critic...
Thomson would have been on stronger ground in citing the absence of contemporary music. Community's 1,000 audiences did not see Stravinsky, Shostakovich, Schoenberg or Britten on any pianist's program. They heard the music of only three contemporary U.S. composers, Morton Gould, Aaron Copland and Virgil Thomson himself. Fourteen touring symphony orchestras served soothing programs made up mostly of Tchaikovsky and Wagner. Stravinsky cracked a few programs with his Firebird suite...