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...that keeps the god alive. Defiantly the man shatters the god's sacred altar, forcing the god to destroy him and, in so doing, to destroy himself. The opera had so little drama in it, such paucity of stage movement, that New York Herald Tribune Critic Virgil Thomson labeled it "a secular cantata." The music seesawed in a narrow range between lyrical sweetness and sonorous majesty, soaring but once to fervent heights. Yet the opera could not be dismissed as a flop: it was fashioned with expertness, flavored with individuality, imbued with an inner spark...
...Musicritic Virgil Thomson found a scholarly volume of radio theses* which proved, among other things, that "radio builds up a pseudo interest in music," that "popular songs are not popular because people like them, but . . . have been imposed on public taste through the very nearly 100%-efficient plugging process...
...fundamental aim of traditional education was religious, ethical, and civic . . . . The aim and the justification of literature have always been, and must be, the ennobling and enrichment of the whole being. Greek boys were brought up on Homer, because Homer was a guide to life . . . . Roman boys studied Virgil . . . . for the same reason . . . . We should hate to guess the proportion of our students who are moved as Sir Philip Sidney was moved by the heroic example of Aeneas . . . ." Author Brooks decried the "baby talk" of Gertrude Stein and James Joyce. Said he: "The great themes [of great literature] are those...
...first U.S. ballet troupe that ever invaded South America. Tall, truculent Lincoln Kirstein, reviving his barnstorming Ballet Caravan, had assembled a company of 52, 60 crates of scenery and costumes, a repertory of 14 ballets. On opening night, Rio saw Estacion Gasolinera (by Choregrapher Lew Christenson, Composer Virgil Thomson, Painter Paul Cadmus), which the U.S. knew as Filling Station...
...composer, Virgil Thomson helped invent Neo-Romanticism, which is described in the current Modern Music as "a melodious simplicity, accepting all the known tricks of the trade, with a friendly nod to dissonance or any other musical Nance...