Word: virgil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Twenty-Fifth Hour, by Virgil Gheorghiu. A concentration-camp novel which has become Europe's bestseller (TIME...
...Twenty-Fifth Hour, by Virgil Gheorghiu. A concentration-camp novel which has become Europe's bestseller (TIME...
...Twenty-Fifth Hour, by Virgil Gheorghiu. A concentration-camp novel which has become Europe's bestseller (TIME...
Born in Brooklyn, "on a street. . . that can only be described as drab," he survived the iron classical discipline of his first teachers, then, at 20, took off for Paris and the "encouraging" teaching of Nadia Boulanger (TIME, March 31, 1947). Other U.S. composers-Virgil Thomson, Walter Piston, Roy Harris, Marc Blitz-stein-were soon following the same Paris path...
...Twenty-Fifth Hour, by Virgil Gheorghiu. A concentration-camp novel which has become Europe's bestseller; chiefly interesting as a landmark in Euro pean pessimism in the first aftermath of World War II (TIME...