Virgil Thomson |

Virgil Thomson

Nws kawm hauv Harvard University, tom qab ntawd hauv Paris nrog Nadia Boulanger. Thaum lub sij hawm Parisian lub sij hawm ntawm nws lub neej, nws tau los nyob ze nrog Gertrude Stein, tom qab ntawd tau sau ob qho kev ua yeeb yam raws li nws libretto, uas ua rau muaj kev cuam tshuam zoo: Plaub Haiv Neeg Ntseeg hauv Peb Txoj Haujlwm (eng. Four Saints in Three Acts; 1927-1928, staged 1934. ; thiab tsis muaj kev ua yeeb yam hauv peb qhov kev ua yeeb yam, thiab tsis muaj plaub tus neeg dawb huv koom nrog) thiab "Peb Leej Niam" (Eng. Niam ntawm Peb Txhua Tus; 1947; raws li phau ntawv keeb kwm ntawm Susan Brownell Anthony, yog ib tus tsim ntawm cov poj niam txoj kev txav mus los hauv Tebchaws Meskas). Nyob rau hauv 1939 nws luam tawm Lub Xeev ntawm Suab paj nruag, uas coj nws muaj koob meej heev; Nws tau ua raws li Lub Suab paj nruag Scene (1945), Art of Judging Music (1948) thiab Musical Right and Left (1951). ). Xyoo 1940-1954. Thomson yog ib tug kws sau nkauj rau ib qho ntawm cov ntawv xov xwm Asmeskas uas hwm tshaj plaws, New York Herald Tribune.

Thomson tau sau suab paj nruag rau cov duab suab, suav nrog Pulitzer Prize-winning zaj duab xis Louisiana Story (1948), thiab rau kev ua yeeb yam, suav nrog Orson Welles 'kev tsim tawm ntawm Macbeth. Lub ballet rau nws lub suab paj nruag Filling Station tau ua los ntawm William Christensen (1954). Ib hom kev nthuav dav uas Thomson ua haujlwm yog "suab paj nruag portraits" - cov khoom me me uas ua rau nws cov npoj yaig thiab cov neeg paub.

Lub voj voog uas tsim nyob ib ncig ntawm Thomson suav nrog ntau tus kws ntaus nkauj tseem ceeb ntawm tiam tom ntej, suav nrog Leonard Bernstein, Paul Bowles, thiab Ned Rorem.