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...Admit that Dryden's Virgil...
...Virgil's ghost...
...probably for these reasons that Koussevitzky rarely plays classical music, and never pre-classical. Little Haydn, no Handel, and no Schubert is heard in Boston. Koussevitzky's selections among Romantic composers are generally restricted to that Virgil Thomson calls "the symphonists that descend from Brahms'--Tchaikovsky, Sibelius...
...York Herald Tribune's caustic composer-critic Virgil Thomson went all out last week. He had just heard, he wrote, a voice "with a beauty that is unmatched among the sopranos of this country." The accolade went not to one of the seven singers making their debuts this season, but to bosomy Yugoslav Zinka Milanov, singing Donna Anna in Mozart's Don Giovanni for about the 20th time. Just five days earlier, another Trib critic had panned her. Wrote he: "[Her] decrease in avoirdupois [has] brought with it a disturbing lessening of her powers...
...Virgil Thomson: Five Portraits (Phila delphia Orchestra, Virgil Thomson conducting; Columbia, 4 sides). The com poser's five friends (among them Pablo Picasso, Conductor Alexander Smallens) can't be as dull as his musical sketches of them. Performance: good...