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...Nobel-laureate missionary Mother Teresa, who is giving today's Class Day address; Virgil Thomson '22, a prominent American composer; and Doriot Authority Dwyer, first flutist for the Boston Symphony Orchestra, are also apparently on this year's list of honorary degree winners...
...Composer Virgil Thomson turns a hale and peppery...
...Virgil Thomson...
...skewered arrogance and stupidity in the musical establishment with a perceptive gusto unknown since the critical heyday of George Bernard Shaw. Composer Aaron Copland, his contemporary, calls him "about as original a personality as America can boast." This week, in what is far from the least of his accomplishments, Virgil Thomson turns a hale and peppery...
...this month with a concert performance of Four Saints at Carnegie Hall. Thomson bounded onstage for tumultuous curtain calls, still pink-cheeked and cherubic and grinning impishly. A recording of Four Saints is now being made and is due out next year. A new collection of his writings, A Virgil Thomson Reader,has just been issued (Houghton Mifflin; 582 pages; $25). Convivially holding court in the suite that he has occupied for decades in Manhattan's Chelsea Hotel, the old boy (as he has been fondly called) chats with a stream of visitors while fielding a barrage of calls...