Word: virgil
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...lacked practical musical experience, so Glass set out for New York City and the Juilliard School, from which he graduated in 1962. Dissatisfied with his technique, he headed for Paris a couple of years later to study with Nadia Boulanger, the renowned pedagogue who had taught Aaron Copland and ; Virgil Thomson. "Boulanger believed that the training we got in America was simply not thorough enough," says Glass. "She was convinced that at age 27 I had to redo completely my musical education." As the oldest member of the Boulangerie, he studied counterpoint six to eight hours a day. To help...
Speaking the scholarly language of the day, Latin, was never a problem, though, for the young men who ended up here-they were admitted because of their ability to read and understand Tully, Virgil and other "ordinary classical authors," to say nothing of the Greeks...
...scientific name is Ingalls Rink-or rinkus ingallsus, as Virgil might have referred to it. But in the vernacular, this killer of Crimson teams past is known as the Yale Whale...
...about the future because I want so much to be a success." In 1949 she won a scholarship to Manhattan's Juilliard School, where her teacher, Florence Page Kimball, economically taught her to "sing on your vocal interest, not on the principal." In 1952 she was discovered by Composer Virgil Thomson, who cast her in his opera Four Saints in Three Acts. That led to her first popular triumph, as Bess in a revival of Porgy and Bess. A great career was launched...
...main areas of research included the Latin poets Catullus, Lucretius, Horace, Tibullus and Virgil...