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...Elected in 1946 to fill the unexpired term (two years) of A. B. ("Happy") Chandler, who resigned to become U.S. Commissioner of Baseball; defeated in 1948 by Virgil Chapman; elected in 1952 to fill the unexpired term (two years) after Chapman died; defeated in 1954 by Alben Barkley...
...works that have reached Europe through other groups have for the most part been of inferior quality. Woodworth wants to show Europe that this country is producing fine choral music of real substance and value. So he is scheduling works by such well-known names as Randall Thompson '20, Virgil Thompson '22 and Irving Fine '37, along with pieces by little known but talented men like Henry Leland Clarke '28, Karl Kohn '48 and Russell Woollen...
This fall, the boon was on! Eliot House announced the formation of its Drama Group to produce plays meeting the demand for an "intimate theatre;" Adams House went beyond the traditional scope of House productions to present Alcestis in Sanders Theatre and its Music Society gave Virgil Thomson and Gertrude Stein's opera The Mother of Us All. The Eliot group gave three productions this year, The Tempest, Richard II, and The Merchant of Venice, all of which were very favorably received...
...years of absence, Susan B. Anthony returned to Cambridge, not to make an inflammatory speech about women's suffrage, but as the heroine of the opera The Mother of Us All. Her arrival is a welcome event, for the work, with a book by Gertrude Stein and music by Virgil Thomson, is a thoroughly pleasant show. Fortunately, too, the Adams House Music Society production supports the best aspects of the opera...
...Virgil Thomson's music strives to recreate the atmosphere of the period by the use of simple melodies and simpler harmony. The motifs are often built on a single chord, suggesting bugle calls, and this lack of pretension adds charm to the score. Taken seriously, the music becomes tiring in its succession of tonic and dominant chords. The lack of variety, however, is atoned for by the music's good humor, clear orchestration, and subservience to the text...