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...TWENTY-FIFTH HOUR (404 pp.)-C. Virgil Gheorghiu, translated by Rita Eldon-Knopf...
Sextet won him a "neat and charming" notice from Composer-Critic Virgil Thomson. Last week an After Dinner Opera Company audience in Manhattan heard 23-year-old Composer Kupferman teamed up with a late impressionist of the literary world-Gertrude Stein...
Farmer Ralph Waldo Moore pondered these words for the best part of two years, as he mended his fences, planted and reaped his crops. Then one day he walked into the Waldron State Bank and handed over to Cashier Virgil Roberts a check for $580. "This is for the church, Virgil," he said. "I want to start tithing...
...Eliot the banker, in his bowler hat, black coat and sponge-bag (checked) trousers, was only one of several simultaneous incarnations. There was also the dreamily peripatetic Mr. Eliot who walked on the beach wearing, like Prufrock, white flannel trousers and reading Virgil or Dante. Above all, dogging the steps of the other Messrs. Eliot, was the increasingly cynical young man who wrote verse as polished and as sharp as a Guardsman's sword. He created a gallery of unforgettable characters: Mr. Apollinax, the faun-like, fragile embodiment of the dry intellect (whose "laughter tinkled among the teacups"); Apeneck...
...week they were going ahead to beat the band. In Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum,' art lovers joined music lovers in the Great Hall for the first of three free symphony concerts by the Old Timers. First, to demonstrate that new music is not beyond oldsters, they sent Virgil Thomson's dissonant Seine at Night flowing down the corridors -and the brasses got their chance to show they still had both wind and beauty of tone. In Chausson's Poème, with Violinist Ruggiero Ricci as guest soloist, the strings got to prove that they improve...