Virgil Thomson |

Virgil Thomson

Anaphunzira ku Harvard University, kenako ku Paris ndi Nadia Boulanger. M’nthaŵi ya moyo wake wa ku Paris, anakhala paubwenzi ndi Gertrude Stein, pambuyo pake analemba zisudzo ziŵiri zozikidwa pa libretto yake, zimene zinachititsa chidwi: Four Saints in Three Acts (eng. Four Saints in Three Acts; 1927-1928, 1934) ; ndipo palibe zochita mu zisudzo zitatu, ndipo palibe oyera anayi omwe akukhudzidwa) ndi "Amayi Wathu Wamba" (Eng. The Mother of Us All; 1947; zochokera pa mbiri ya Susan Brownell Anthony, mmodzi wa omwe anayambitsa gulu la amayi ku United States). Mu 1939 adafalitsa The State of Music, zomwe zinamubweretsera kutchuka kwakukulu; idatsatiridwa ndi The Musical Scene (1945), The Art of Judging Music (1948) ndi Musical Right and Left (1951). ). Mu 1940-1954. Thomson anali wolemba nyimbo m'nyuzipepala yolemekezeka kwambiri ku America, New York Herald Tribune.

Thomson adalemba nyimbo zamakanema oyenda, kuphatikiza filimu yopambana Mphotho ya Pulitzer ya Louisiana Story (1948), komanso pazopanga zisudzo, kuphatikiza kupanga kwa Orson Welles kwa Macbeth. Ballet ku Filling Station yake yoimba idakonzedwa ndi William Christensen (1954). Mtundu wosangalatsa womwe Thomson adagwira nawo ntchito anali "zithunzi zanyimbo" - zidutswa zing'onozing'ono zomwe zimadziwika ndi anzake ndi anzawo.

Bwalo lomwe linapangidwa mozungulira Thomson linaphatikizapo oimba angapo otchuka a m'badwo wotsatira, kuphatikizapo Leonard Bernstein, Paul Bowles, ndi Ned Rorem.