Word: virgil
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Whatever immortality Composer Virgil Thomson wins will probably rest on his operas Four Saints in Three Acts (1934) and Mother of Us All (1947). Sophisticated and witty, both works catch up words and music in the kind of embrace that could be devised only by a man born to write for the voice. Thus the air of eager anticipation before last week's premiere of Thomson's third opera, Lord Byron, at Manhattan's Juilliard School. Would it once and for all establish Thomson as America's foremost operatic composer...
...aide to General Electric Vice President Virgil Day, the informal business leader, is onetime U.S. Steel Chairman Roger Blough, a dirty word to many unionists. The labor men, for their part, have taken to sending alternates to most meetings. The choice of AFL-CIO President George Meany, who has been recovering from an attack of chest pains, is Nathaniel (Nat) Goldfinger, his acerbic director of research, whose constant needling frequently infuriates Chairman Boldt, who is a Federal judge from Tacoma...
...Virgil Thomson is the only man In the world who can keep me up until four in the morning." The late Sir Thomas Beecham's remark was a tribute to the fact that Thomson, one of the foremost U.S. composers, composes sentences just as brilliantly as he does music. He has been as familiar to the music public for his books (The State of Music) and his distinguished music reviews in the New York Herald Tribune (1940-54) as for works like the opera Four Saints in Three Acts or the film score for Louisiana Story, Whether in words...
Meany called the leader of the business representatives, General Electric Co. Vice President Virgil Day, "a pipsqueak." He also charged that labor members of the board were offered an "under-the-table deal" that would have permitted big unions to gain pay boosts above the board's 5.5% guideline if smaller unions were pressured into accepting the official goal. Actually, it is far more likely that the big-union contracts were merely used as examples during board discussions...
...line of Virgil's Aeneid occurs to me. It is from Aeneas' account of the fall of Troy: Jam proximus ardet Ucalegon ! (Close by, Ucalegon's house is already ablaze!) When I contemplate the festival of the oppressed and exploited of South Africa, I shudder at the complacency and mystifications of all the Kennans...