Word: virgil
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Turning 83, famed American Composer-Critic Virgil Thomson proved to be as vivace as the music he has written for every mode from concert hall to films over half a century. Tendered a birthday party at Brentano's bookstore in Manhattan, Thomson ignored the limousine that had been sent to fetch him from his apartment in the fin de siècle Chelsea Hotel and marched to the festivities on his own. He also chose stairs instead of an elevator and a hard chair rather than a soft one, but he did consent to pose at the piano with...
DIED. Nadia Boulanger, 92, Mademoiselle le Professeur to three generations of composers, including America's Aaron Copland, Virgil Thomson and Roger Sessions; in Paris. Though a promising composer, she taught indefatigably for five decades and had great influence on such American-born artists as Classicist Roy Harris and Experimentalist Philip Glass. She was also the first woman to conduct London's Royal Philharmonic, New York's Philharmonic and the Philadelphia and Boston symphony orchestras...
...traditional power of numbers on October 11, when 5000 laborers will rally outside the Seaman's Bank headquarters to call for an end to the "J.P. Stevens-Seaman's Bank connection." It will be the visible sign of what Rogers claims will be increasing pressure on Stevens Director E. Virgil Conway, who doubles as chairman and president of Seaman's Bank. Next on the campaign's hit list is Sidney Weinberg Jr., a partner of Goldman, Sachs, the investment banking firm. When and if he is forced off the Stevens board, the campaign will once again attempt to drive Finley...
Paul Bowles is a Renaissance man born into an age that applauds specialization. Doing several things very well indeed has, paradoxically, brought him less public acclaim than he might have received had he stuck to one. Bowles, 68, has been a distinguished composer; in 1947 Musician Virgil Thomson called him "America's most original and skillful composer of chamber music." He has written music for the stage, particularly for the plays of his friend Tennessee Williams. He has also been a tireless collector of folklore and legends, especially from Morocco, where he has lived on and off since...
...that was only the beginning. Now the union is going after E. Virgil Conway, chairman of the Seamen's Bank for Savings in New York City, who refuses to quit as a director of Stevens. The union is stirring up activist groups against Sea men's by pointing out that the bank makes most of its mortgage loans to borrowers outside metropolitan New York. The ACTWU has also enlisted political, labor and religious groups to help block the bank from opening a branch on Long Is land...