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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...
Beethoven at Last. To Virgil Thomson, critic of the New York Herald Tribune, who devoted three tart Sunday columns to the subject, the biggest audience in the U.S. is getting very poor service indeed. He had a flock of letters from readers telling him, "How right you are!" Both Ward French, president of Community, and Marks Levine, board chairman of Civic, were ready to tell him how wrong...
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...
...benefit of his Herald Tribune readers, Virgil Thomson once described the Philadelphia Orchestra's tone as "smooth as a seashell, iridescent as fine rain, bright as the taste of a peach." These Thomson similes make a succinct description of his own writing. "Music Right and Left" is the third collection of his reviews, covering from 1947 through half of 1950, and ranging in content from Bach to Pravda. Each review is a slick, colorful, brightly polished little essay; the polish is all the more remarkable since each review was written in about an hour...